 Now most fondly remembered as Alf Garnett's wife, the 'silly moo', in TV's Till Death Do Us Part (BBC, 1966-68, 1972, 1974-75), as well as the spin-off films (Till Death Us Do Part, d. Norman Cohen, 1969; The Alf Garnett Saga, d. Bob Kellett, 1972), Dandy Nichols was also a respected stage actress, in such plays as Home (1970), opposite John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. In films, she was one of those invaluable character players who vivified brief moments in dozens of films, frequently as nosy neighbours, suspicious landladies (watch her, in this function, boot out Donal Donnelly in The Knack..., d. Richard Lester, 1965), housekeepers (sympathetic in The Deep Blue Sea, d. Anatole Litvak, 1955), tea ladies (O Lucky Man!, d. Lindsay Anderson, 1973), working-class mums, charladies, barmaids - the full panoply of lower-orders character women was given its due, and more. Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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