Her agent, Jean Diamond of Diamond Management, said: It is with great sadness that I can confirm the passing of Josephine Tewson. I was definitely not disappointed with my purchase of it. Actress: Keeping Up Appearances. He died, aged 49, on 4 March. Keeping Up Appearances was a great success in the UK, and also captured large audiences in the US, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Tewson was best known for. One of the world's richest men, David Koch died aged 79 on august 23. . Geoffrey Hughes obituary | Television | The Guardian Veteran English television actress remembered in her later years as Rose on Keeping Up Appearances. In Keeping Up Appearances he appeared in more than 40 episodes as Richard Bucket, husband of Patricia Routledges social climber Hyacinth. McBain closed his long career with a 2003 episode of the medical drama "Casualty." Clive Swift - IMDb He died on July 27, 2012, at the age of 68. A Democrat and the longest serving congressman on record, with a stint of 59 years and 22 days from 1955 to 2015 died on 7 February, aged 92. He also made appearances on TV shows like "Doctor Who" and "Inspector Morse." He appeared in numerous TV shows, including Coronation Street (1960) and Keeping Up Appearances (1990), where he played the slob Onslow. The talented actress regularly performed alongside Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker on David Frost on Sunday and Hark at Barker. But our Hyacinth is also sweet in her own odd way. Actor Josephine Tewson of Keeping Up Appearances dies aged 91 She later returned to Britain and became a professional dancer and comedian in her teens, working her act between the nudes at Dhurjati Chaudhury's Irving Theatre Club, on Irving Street, off Leicester Square, London. Clive Swift was best known for playing the long-suffering husband of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping up Appearances, Writer and broadcaster equally at home among the highbrow and on TV died aged 80. The reason for this gentle comedys enduring acclaim? The episode was the most watched ever Doctor Who Christmas special. It was his role as Richard, the hen-pecked husband of Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge) for which he was best known. Josephine's role in the sitcom saw her star in almost every episode as nervous Liz who trembled each time she held Hyacinth's precious crockery for the five series of the sitcom, from 1990 until 1995. Though a fairly formal event, Hyacinth, Richard, and the others manage to turn it into a three-ring circus. Swift was born in Liverpool in February 1936, and began a career in acting after taking part in student dramatics while at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. 1. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. He is survived by two sons, Adam, an academic, and Joe, a TV garden designer and regular BBC gardening presenter. Tributes to the actress have already begun pouring in on social media as one fan wrote: "Shes shaken her last teacup in Hyacinths kitchen. And in other ways, its surprising since there have been plenty of examples of actors finishing up a hit show only to have trouble finding continued success.