Patricia Routledge
Department: Acting
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.
Known For
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
1968
First and Last
1989
A Visit from Miss Prothero
1978
Girl Stroke Boy
1971
Keep Off The Grass
1983
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
1980
The Pirates of Penzance
1980
Anybody's Nightmare
2001
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
1968
The Beggar's Opera
1983
30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!
1968
The Imitation Game
1980
Doris and Doreen
1978
Talking Heads
1988
Talking Heads 2
1998
Up Among the Cuckoos
1970
Comedy Classic: Keeping Up Appearances
2023
Hildegard
1994
Egghead's Robot
1970
Pretty Polly
1967
More Awkward Customers
1975
To Sir, with Love
1967
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
1997
Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge
2016
Androcles and the Lion
1967
Joe Orton Laid Bare
2017
Missing Persons
1990
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969
When We Are Married
1987
Miss Pym's Day Out
1992
A Woman of No Importance.
1982
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck
1993
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
2006
Customers From Hell
1989
Hobson's Choice
1962
Lock Up Your Daughters
1969
Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch
1988
Iolanthe
1966
Plain Jane
1977
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding
1993
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
2005
Keeping Up Appearances
1990
...And Mother Makes Five
1974
Affairs of the Heart
1983
Z-Cars
1962
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
1985
No Hiding Place
1959
Play for Today
1970
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
1996
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Natural World
1983
Marjorie And Men
1985
Talking Heads
1988
Talking Heads
1988
Ooh La La!
1968
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992
An Audience with...
1978
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948
Victoria Regina
1964
Sense and Sensibility
1971
Objects of Affection
1982
Armchair Theatre
1956
Thirty-Minute Theatre
1965
Mrs Pym's Day Out
1992
Parkinson
1998
ITV Play of the Week
1955
BBC Play of the Month
1965
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
Nicholas Nickleby
1977
Theatre Night
1957
Jubilee 1977
1977
Remembers…
2022
Armchair Theatre
1956
Tony Awards
1956