Dandy Nichols

(The second series used Nichols' own death as an excuse to kill off the character and dealt with Alf's experience of widowhood.). She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1994, she was honored with her image on a United States postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. She reprised her role as Else in the first series of the sequel, In Sickness and in Health. They had two children: a daughter, Ann Gallery, and a son, Don Gallery (ne Marvin Carville La Marr), whom they adopted after the death of his mother, actress Barbara La Marr. Prior to the series, Dandy Nichols had been a minor comedy actress, appearing in many old British films. Pitts was married to actor Tom Gallery from 1920 to 1932. Alf often referred to Else as a "silly old moo" (the word "cow" would have been unacceptable to contemporary audiences). She was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City.

Dandy Nichols (1907, London - February 6, 1986) was an actress most noted for her role as Else Garnett, the long-suffering wife of the racially bigoted and misogynistic character Alf Garnett in the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. ZaSu Pitts died of cancer in Hollywood, California at age 69. From the 1940s through the early 1960s ZaSu Pitts also made numerous television appearances, including her role in The Gale Storm Show, Oh! Susanna (1956-1960), with Gale Storm. When Mae Questel was called on to create the screen voice of the character "Olive Oyl" for the Fleischer Studios animated cartoon version of the comic strip "Popeye", Questel created a caricature of Zazu Pitts' voice. When Hollywood switched to talkies, Pitts, who had a distinctive nasal voice with a wavering vibrato, switched to comedy character actor roles.

Von Stroheim also featured her in The Wedding March and Walking Down Broadway. Perhaps her most famous early role was in Erich von Stroheim's Greed (1925). Pitts debuted in silent film in 1917, including a number of leading roles. Her unusual first name was coined from parts of the names "Eliza" and "Susan", female relatives who both wanted ZaSu's mother to name the child after them.

ZaSu Pitts was born in Parsons, Kansas and grew up in Santa Cruz, California. In many of her film credits and contemporary articles, her name is rendered as Zazu Pitts. ZaSu Pitts (3 January 1894 - 7 June 1963) was a United States movie actress.