Dina Merrill

. (The second series used Nichols' own death as an excuse to kill off the character and dealt with Alf's experience of widowhood.). A corporate remnant named RKO Pictures was purchased by Merrill and Ted Hartley in 1989 with a plan to resurrect it as a motion picture production company. She reprised her role as Else in the first series of the sequel, In Sickness and in Health. Her second husband (of three) was the American actor Cliff Robertson (married 1966, divorced 1986). Prior to the series, Dandy Nichols had been a minor comedy actress, appearing in many old British films. Hutton and Post cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, her first film was Desk Set (1957), in which she played Sylvia Blair, one of the researchers whose supervisor was Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn). Alf often referred to Else as a "silly old moo" (the word "cow" would have been unacceptable to contemporary audiences).

The daughter of Wall Street wizard Edward F. 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. Nedinia Hutton Rumbough Robertson Hartley (born 9 December 1925) is a United States actress known as Dina Merrill.