Patricia Routledge

Actor Feb 17 (died age 96) Tranmere, Merseyside, England, UK 1948–2023 (75 year career)

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Biography

Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, DBE (17 February 1929 – 3 October 2025) was a British actress, comedian and singer. She was best known for her role as Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance in 1992 and 1993.

Known For

Film

To Sir, with Love

Clinty Clintridge

Film

Keeping Up Appearances

Hyacinth Bucket

Film

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Hetty Wainthropp

Film

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Mrs. Featherstone

Film

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

Miss Reece

Film

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

7.6 1985

Film

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

Cousin Ribby

Film

The Pirates of Penzance

Ruth

Filmography

Acting (74)

Movies (41)

Comedy Classic: Keeping Up Appearances

2023

as Self

7.3

Joe Orton Laid Bare

2017

as Herself

Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge

2016

as Self - Presenter

10.0

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

2006

as Cousin Ribby

8.3

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

as Self

Anybody's Nightmare

as Sheila Bowler

Talking Heads 2

The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket

1997

as Hyacinth

9.0

Hildegard

1994

as Hildegard von Bingen

6.0

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck

1993

as Cousin Ribby (voice)

8.0

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding

1993

as Ribby (voice)

Miss Pym's Day Out

1992

as Barbara Pym

Missing Persons

as Hetty Wainthrop

First and Last

as Ivy

Customers From Hell

Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch

1988

as Self

Talking Heads

1988

5.0

When We Are Married

1987

as Maria Helliwell

Keep Off The Grass

as Bag Lady

The Beggar's Opera

as Mrs. Peachum

A Woman of No Importance.

1982

as Miss Schofield

The Pirates of Penzance

as Ruth

The Imitation Game

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

as "Posh" Lady

Doris and Doreen

as Doreen Bidmead

A Visit from Miss Prothero

1978

as Miss Prothero

Plain Jane

1977

as Jane

More Awkward Customers

1975

as Awkward Customer: Mrs. Camel

Girl Stroke Boy

1971

as Pamela Hovendon

5.1

Up Among the Cuckoos

1970

as Miss Furling

Egghead's Robot

1970

3.0

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

1969

as Mrs. Featherstone

5.8

Lock Up Your Daughters

1969

4.5

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

1968

as Miss Reece

6.5

Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

1968

as Lucille Beatty

6.1

30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!

as Mrs. Woolley

To Sir, with Love

as Clinty Clintridge

Pretty Polly

as Miss Gudgeon

Androcles and the Lion

1967

as Magaera, Androcles' Wife

Iolanthe

1966

as Iolanthe

Hobson's Choice

1962

as Maggie Hobson

Television (33)

Remembers…

2022

as Self

Parkinson

1998

as Self

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

1996

as Hetty Wainthropp

7.3

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

1992

as Cousin Ribby (voice)

6.2

Mrs Pym's Day Out

1992

as Barbara Pym

Keeping Up Appearances

as Hyacinth Bucket

Talking Heads

as Irene Ruddock

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

Marjorie And Men

Natural World

as Narrator

Affairs of the Heart

Objects of Affection

as Miss Schofield

Tales of the Unexpected

as Milly Dobson

An Audience with...

as Self

BBC2 Play of the Week

as Peggy Prothero

Nicholas Nickleby

as Mme. Mantalini

Jubilee 1977

as Jane

...And Mother Makes Five

1974

5.3

Sense and Sensibility

as Mrs. Jennings

Play for Today

Ooh La La!

BBC Play of the Month

1965

as Dorine

5.0

Thirty-Minute Theatre

1965

as Beryl Turner

3.4

Victoria Regina

1964

as Queen Victoria

Z-Cars

1962

7.0

Sunday-Night Play

1960

as Sylvia

No Hiding Place

1959

3.7

Theatre Night

1957

as Aunt Mabel

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

Armchair Theatre

as Miss Furling

Tony Awards

as Self - Nominee

ITV Play of the Week

as Maggie Hobson

The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self