Yootha Joyce (20 August 1927 – 24 August 1980) was an English actress who was best known for playing Mildred Roper in Man About the House and George and Mildred.
Yootha Joyce Needham was born in Wandsworth, London in 1927, the only child of musical parents Hurst Needham, a well known singer, and Jessica Revitt, a concert pianist. Her mother named her daughter Yootha after the Maori word for joy. Joyce was evacuated to Hampshire during World War I...
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Yootha Joyce (20 August 1927 – 24 August 1980) was an English actress who was best known for playing Mildred Roper in Man About the House and George and Mildred.
Yootha Joyce Needham was born in Wandsworth, London in 1927, the only child of musical parents Hurst Needham, a well known singer, and Jessica Revitt, a concert pianist. Her mother named her daughter Yootha after the Maori word for joy. Joyce was evacuated to Hampshire during World War II. She left school at 15, then trained at RADA where Roger Moore was a fellow student and toured with Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA).
In 1956 she married the actor Glynn Edwards, best known for playing Dave, landlord of the Winchester Club in Minder. It was through Edwards that she first came to prominence in the renowned Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop, appearing at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East in Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be and going on to make her film debut in 1962 in Sparrows Can't Sing. Joyce and Edwards...
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