Patricia Routledge

Patricia Routledge

Birthday: 1929-02-17

Place of Birth: Tranmere, Merseyside, England, UK

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.

Movies

Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wif...

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First and Last
First and Last

The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of B...

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A Visit from Miss Prothero
A Visit from Miss Prothero

Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late...

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Girl Stroke Boy
Girl Stroke Boy

Middle-class parents are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusin...

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Keep Off The Grass
Keep Off The Grass

A BAFTA award nominated drama about a park keeper who arrives to open up his park. Waiting at the g...

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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but we...

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The Pirates of Penzance
The Pirates of Penzance

As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been appr...

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Anybody's Nightmare
Anybody's Nightmare

Based on the true story of Shelia Bowler, accused of murdering her elderly aunt....

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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra ...

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The Beggar's Opera
The Beggar's Opera

A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC telev...

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30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!
30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!

A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry a...

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The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game

Second World War drama - A young woman decides against working in a munitions factory, and lands a p...

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Doris and Doreen
Doris and Doreen

A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs....

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Talking Heads
Talking Heads

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a v...

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Talking Heads 2
Talking Heads 2

A series of monologues....

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Up Among the Cuckoos
Up Among the Cuckoos

A couple rebel against being forced out of their home (in the name of progress) and into a high rise...

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Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances
Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances

Keeping Up Appearances remains one of Britain's best loved series. Running for 5 years throughout th...

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Hildegard
Hildegard

An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia R...

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Egghead's Robot
Egghead's Robot

'Egghead' Wentworth adapts his father's robot paratrooper to perform his chores, but forgets to prog...

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Pretty Polly
Pretty Polly

Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. Wh...

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More Awkward Customers
More Awkward Customers

Emphasises the importance of professional knowledge of an organisation’s stocks or services in deali...

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To Sir, with Love
To Sir, with Love

A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his un...

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The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket

Daisy and Onslow find the secret diary of Hyacinth and start reading in it. The rest of this TV-spec...

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Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge
Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge

Patricia Routledge, as patron of the Beatrix Potter Society, presents a documentary on the author's ...

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Androcles and the Lion
Androcles and the Lion

The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himse...

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Joe Orton Laid Bare
Joe Orton Laid Bare

Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who...

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Missing Persons
Missing Persons

During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's ...

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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days....

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When We Are Married
When We Are Married

Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually m...

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Miss Pym's Day Out
Miss Pym's Day Out

In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award ...

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A Woman of No Importance.
A Woman of No Importance.

Award-winning one-woman drama starring Patricia Routledge. What do Miss Schofield and the gang find ...

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

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 2. Tom Kitten and his sisters spoil the tea party o...

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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

Classic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were...

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Customers From Hell
Customers From Hell

John Cleese training video on customers....

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Hobson's Choice
Hobson's Choice

Maggie Hobson (Patricia Routledge) decides to marry Willie Mossop (Michael Caine), the gifted but un...

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Lock Up Your Daughters
Lock Up Your Daughters

Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down....

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Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch
Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch

Barry Humphries performance at The Hilton Hotel London for The Variety Club of Great Britain....

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Iolanthe
Iolanthe

Half-fae-half-mortal shepherd Strephon wants to wed shepherdress Phyllis, but, although she reciproc...

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Plain Jane
Plain Jane

A well-to-do family moves from the city to a country farmhouse, determined to make a go of things on...

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

"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 3. While hiding from his mother Tabitha, Tom Kitten...

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