1. Isabel Mary Sugden, known professionally as Mollie Sugden was an English actress and comedian.
12 Facts About Mollie Sugden
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Mollie Sugden later remarked that their response made her "realise how wonderful it was to make people laugh".
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Shortly after she left school, World War II broke out, and Mollie Sugden worked in a munitions factory in Keighley making shells for the Royal Navy.
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When Mollie Sugden graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she worked in repertory for eight years with a company that included Eric Sykes and Roy Dotrice.
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Mollie Sugden had work in radio and made her television debut in a live half-hour comedy show.
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Mollie Sugden appeared in the bulk of the run, from 1971 to 1979.
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Mollie Sugden played main roles in other sitcoms, including That's My Boy and My Husband and I, both for ITV.
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Mollie Sugden played opposite her husband, William Moore, in several series, including two episodes of The Liver Birds and again in My Husband and I, on both occasions as a married couple.
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Mollie Sugden appeared alongside Deryck Guyler in two series of the sitcom Home to Roost on BBC Radio 4 in 1974 and 1975.
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Mollie Sugden played Mrs Fox in the radio version of Dad's Army from 1975 to 1976.
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In 2003, Mollie Sugden appeared in an episode of The Bill and appeared in an episode of the comedy sketch show Little Britain.
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Mollie Sugden died on 1 July 2009, age 86, at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, Surrey of unspecified heart failure and was cremated.