She was Thora Hird's next-door neighbour in the gritty and ground-breaking A Kind of Loving (1961), did no more filming for over 20 years and then appeared in 1983, also under John Schlesinger's direction, in the TV film of Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables - as Mabel the boarding-house maid. The actress spent more than three decades acting in comedy Last Of The Summer Wine. Anti-Trump protesters clash with NYPD in Manhattan's Greenwich Village as National Guard is activated in... JUSTIN WEBB: What if two 'Presidents' demand to be sworn in? Actress. real-world solutions, and more. 'She would play a scene quite gently, and I'd say, "But Kathy, you've got to harden up, because that's who we all love – the hard, tough Nora Batty".'. "Crossroads were very good about me combining the two.
Religious programmes were also her forte and she appeared in Highway, with Harry Secombe, on ITV, and Songs of Praise on BBC, while also doing stage work - including The Importance of Being Earnest for Birmingham Rep and many pantomimes as "Dame Nora". Staff's autobiography, My Story – Wrinkles and All, was published in 1997. 'active' : ''">
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Log in to update your newsletter preferences, Monday - Friday plus breaking news alerts by email. When the pilot programme was shot, Nora Batty saw two men visible from her garden taking away the television sets of a defaulting neighbour, and hastily covered up her bloomers on the washing line. they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. Her religious upbringing led her never to drink alcohol or smoke. Kathy Staff Appearances First The Last of the Summer Wine: Last Get Out Of That, Then ... Staff actually did leave the series in 2001, to reprise her role as cleaner Doris Luke in the doomed revival of soap Crossroads, with Nora said to be emigrating to Australia. A size 16 in real life, Mrs Staff had to wear layers of padding to play the generously proportioned Nora. Are you sure you want to submit this vote?
Independent Premium. She also realised a childhood dream by dancing in the chorus of A Simple Man for Northern Ballet. Gerald Harper, an old friend from rep days, persuaded her to return and she worked as a £3-a-day extra in television. DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Outrageous. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. or debate this issue live on our message boards. The actress Kathy Staff turned Nora Batty into a television icon. Over 35 years, in 29 series, she played the broom-wielding, humourless battleaxe in the BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine… try again, the name must be unique, Please 'You could stop acting when Kathy was there because she was going to do it all for you.'. Democrats are now plotting to oust Pelosi as Speaker after their House majority shrunk... How Joe Biden could make trouble for Boris Johnson, the leader he still has not met.
Newest first, -1) ? Please Community to your comment. She also appeared in Emmerdale and Coronation Street, and with David Jason and Ronnie Barker in Open All Hours. She's the type of woman who if she shows any feelings thinks it's a sign of weakness. She also played the boarding-house maid Mabel in the television film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables (1983). Off screen, Staff liked to drop into Liberty's or the Ritz for afternoon tea when in London, and always dressed elegantly.
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Parts followed in other serials and Last of the Summer Wine. Boorish. She had the regular role of Lorna Everitt, wife of the scruffy Harry (played by another Coronation Street star, Roy Barraclough), in a saga revolving around the residents of flats in a Yorkshire coastal town. For several years, she also worked for nine months of the year on Crossroads and then three months on Last of the Summer Wine. In 1949, at the age of 21, she turned professional and changed her name to Katherine Brant, taking the surname from a shopfront she saw while on a bus to Oldham. Having played customers in different Coronation Street shops over the years, she became a semi-regular in the serial as Vera Hopkins (1973, 1974-75), a community centre committee member who then ran the cornershop with her family, renting it from Gordon Clegg.
continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. teased the scruffily disreputable Compo, and Nora gave him a look which, like Compo's over-emphatic play for her, would define their relationship in a series which attracted up to 14 million viewers. Please the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate.
He probably didn't even realise that she was so fond of him. The actor Kathy Staff, who has died aged 80, dominated the BBC's hit television comedy Last of the Summer Wine as the formidable Nora Batty, … The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Her father was a lay reader at a mission. On what grounds is Trump taking legal action in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania? It provided wacky storylines such as the scruffy old man attempting to have his photograph taken in her bedroom and devising a complicated plan to establish her shoe size. Mark Ruffalo, Alyssa Milano and Debra Messing lead gushing Hollywood's excitement as Biden edges... HENRY DEEDES: Blockbuster night of chaos, bombast and bitterness… and drama ain't over. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. The initial acerbic humour was gradually tempered to provide a more gentle and affectionate situation and there was increasing slapstick and larger-than-life characterisation. Mrs Batty!" She went into various repertory groups and at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, met a school teacher, John Staff, who was reading lessons at St David's church; they later married and had two daughters, Katherine and Susan. So Doris was always falling off step ladders and ending up in hospital or going to see her sister.".
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Batty's husband did not appear until the second series, in 1975. Nora had two targets: her henpecked husband, Wally (played by Joe Gladwin), and the shabby, woolly hat-and-wellies-wearing pensioner Compo (Bill Owen), who lusted after her and did eventually get a kiss. Moment whistleblower NHS worker publicly resigns claiming she had 'no work for three weeks' at the height of... London's second wave of coronavirus is SLOWING: Official data shows infections are falling in 19 of 32... Test & Trace fails to reach 40% of at-risk contacts in another record-worst performance as bungling system... 'I just wanted to hold her and tell her that I love her': Corrie actress's retired nurse mother reveals... Cold-blooded revenge of a woman scorned: SIMON WALTERS watches Theresa May tear into 'dodgy data' PM used to... Exodus London! Trump sends in Rudy Giuliani and son Eric to Pennsylvania who claim there are 'fraudulent' mail-in ballots that are part of the 'concerted effort of the crooks that run the Democrat Party', Nearly 60 percent of Americans believe Kamala Harris is The 'Trojan horse of the hard-Left' and that Joe Biden will NOT serve a full four-year term. From then on she called herself Kathy Staff, and it was under this name that she first appeared in Last of The Summer Wine in 1973. But Nora Batty maintained her battleaxe status, even though the actress – a devout Christian – was keen to make the character slightly more mellow.
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She gained experience with repertory companies in Scotland and Wales and, while in Llanelli, met John Staff, a schoolteacher who read lessons in a local church. will be published daily in dedicated articles. "I don't want to live in Hollywood anyway," remarked Staff and, as ever, no one doubted her sincerity. Staff, whose young daughter Katherine also appeared in the film, later had an uncredited role, again as a neighbour, in The Family Way (1966). She began four years later, having changed her real name, Minnie Higginbottom, to Katherine Brant, playing the part of the old mother in William Douglas-Home's play The Chiltern Hundreds, who says of the electorally defeated war leader: "As long as Mr Churchill is alive, he will ALWAYS be the prime minister.".
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