Yootha Joyce

In 2001, a tribute documentary entitled The Unforgettable Yootha Joyce was aired by ITV.
. In 1986, a photograph of Yootha Joyce adorned the sleeve of Ask, a single released by British band The Smiths. She died in Woodland Hills, California from Alzheimer's Disease. Yootha Joyce married once, to the actor Glynn Edwards, best known for playing Dave the landlord in Minder, but the marriage ended in divorce. She was the sister of actress Violet La Plante. The actor Brian Murphy, who played her screen husband George Roper, was at her bedside. She appeared in only a handful of films with the advent of talking pictures, and retired in 1957.

For many years she battled alcoholism and ultimately succumbed, in hospital, to hepatitis four days after her 53rd birthday in 1980. During the 1920s she appeared in more than sixty films, and achieved her greatest success in the 1929 film Show Boat. A feature film was made of George And Mildred in 1980, but this was to be Joyce's last work. Louis, Missouri, La Plante made her acting debut at the age of 15, and in 1923 was named as one of the years WAMPAS Baby Stars. Much of the new series centred on Mildred's desire to better herself in her new surroundings, but always being thwarted, usually unwittingly, by her lifeskill-lacking husband's desire for a quiet life. Born Laura La Plant in St. The couple were seen moving from the London house which they'd owned in the previous programme and into a suburban semi-detached property. Laura La Plante (November 1, 1904 - October 14, 1996) was an American film actress who achieved her greatest success in silent movies.

When the series reached a natural end, a spin-off was written for the Ropers, and George and Mildred first aired in 1976. This series ran until 1976 and told the story of two young women and a young man sharing the Ropers' upstairs flat, and the sexual tension and misunderstandings such living arrangements provide. In the 1960s and 1970s, she became a familiar face in many one-off sitcom roles and supporting parts in films, but it wasn't until 1973 that she acquired a starring role, when she was cast as man-hungry Mildred Roper, wife of landlord George, in the innovative sitcom Man About The House, which was to prove a massive hit with viewers. First coming to prominence in the renowned Joan Littlewood Theatre Group, she made her film debut in 1962 in Sparrows Can't Sing.

Yootha Joyce (20th August 1927 - 24th August 1980) was a British actress.