Off Topic RIP Dame Penelope

[Evil Jimmy Krankie]

Sad news. Anyone growing up in the 1970s will have grown up with her being on the telly. Brings back memories of a much simpler time.

Dame Penelope Keith: The Good Life and To The Manor Born actress dies aged 86

Tributes are paid to the "comic genius", who starred in some of Britain's most popular sitcoms.

www.bbc.com

 

[Smug in Boots]

Was always a decent person and an underrated actress in my opinion.

I met her briefly when me and Mrs Smug delivered an ornamental sofa to her theatre group.

She was giving up her time, to help budding theatre people, and was very friendly and polite to us.

Rest in Peace.

 

[RTB]

Sad news indeed, I used to enjoy watching The Good Life, although that was more based on Felicity than Penelope.

RIP

 

[Mad Maxim]

Sad news, made the characters she played and seemed an all round good egg.

 

[rowley]

RIP Penelope. Quite a star , and I'm not bothered much about TV.

Hard to see a character written like her Good Life one now, or being broadcast.

 

[LAMackem]

RIP lass....played your parts great....god bless.

 

[Row 3]

I watched her in both To The Manor Born and The Good Life but never realised how popular they were. The UK population in 1979 was 56m people,so almost half the country watched the final episode of series 1 of To The Manor Born (see below). There was no catch up,no streaming etc, I don't even remember VCR being much of a thing then.

Rest easy lass, you made a lot of people laugh.

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[TeamOfTalents]

RIP, loved both those shows back then. The reruns always make me feel better.

 

[rooch 3]

RIP, loved both those shows back then. The reruns always make me feel better.

Especially the early birds, watched that quite a few times. Cough cough!

 

[Becs]

Sad news. She seemed like a really nice person as well as a good actress.

 

[rooch 3]

Very sad, liked her in every thing she was in, always came across as lovely.

 

[C Montgomery Burns]

RIP Dame Penelope Keith. All those can do is echo everyone else's thoughts, she seemed a genuinely lovely person and an underrated actress. Apparently she was brilliant as Madam Acarti in a production of "Blithe Spirit" and as Lady Bracknell in "The Importance Of Being Ernest".
A sad day.

 

[The Legendary Tongue]

Another name from my childhood gone.
R.i.P.

 

[mrs em]

Looking back she wore some fabulous clothes in the goodlife, RIP Penelope