
Patricia Routledge
Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, DBE is a British actress, comedian and singer. She is 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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.125 |
Birthday | 1929-02-17 |
Place of Birth | Tranmere, Merseyside, England, UK |
Also Known As |

1968

Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
6.1/7
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over th...
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Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

1989

First and Last
7/3
The story of a retired man who decides to fulfil his life-long ambition of walking from one end of Britain to the other.
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First and Last

1978

A Visit from Miss Prothero
0/0
Arthur Dodsworth has recently retired. He lives alone except for his budgie and memories of his late wife Winnie. One afternoon his nap is interrupted...
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A Visit from Miss Prothero

1971

Girl Stroke Boy
5.8/5
Middle-class parents are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian.
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Girl Stroke Boy

1983

Keep Off The Grass
6.5/2
A BAFTA award nominated drama about a park keeper who arrives to open up his park. Waiting at the gate is the bane of his life: a bag lady with three...
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Keep Off The Grass

1980

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
4.3/7
Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but wealthy profiteer Raymond Burr tries to make sure th...
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The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

1980

The Pirates of Penzance
6.1/9
This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable...
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The Pirates of Penzance

2001

Anybody's Nightmare
5/4
Based on the true story of Shelia Bowler, accused of murdering her elderly aunt.
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Anybody's Nightmare

1968

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
6.7/11
Harriet Blossom is married to Robert Blossom, a businessman who'd rather spend the night at his bra factory than at home with her. One day, Harriet's...
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

1983

The Beggar's Opera
0/0
A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.
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The Beggar's Opera

1968

30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!
4.2/4
A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he turns 30. Directo...
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30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!

1980

The Imitation Game
7.1/4
Second World War drama - A young woman decides against working in a munitions factory, and lands a post with the signals corps attempting to crack the...
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The Imitation Game

1978

Doris and Doreen
0/0
A series of pink forms has Doris and Doreen fearing for their cushy jobs.
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Doris and Doreen

1988

Talking Heads
5/1
Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopefu...
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Talking Heads

1998

Talking Heads 2
7/1
A series of monologues.
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Talking Heads 2

1970

Up Among the Cuckoos
0/0
A couple rebel against being forced out of their home (in the name of progress) and into a high rise publicly owned apartment.
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Up Among the Cuckoos

2023

Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances
7/2
Keeping Up Appearances remains one of Britain's best loved series. Running for 5 years throughout the 90s, millions of viewers tuned in to watch the d...
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Comedy Classics: Keeping Up Appearances

1994

Hildegard
0/0
An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle Age...
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Hildegard

1970

Egghead's Robot
3/1
'Egghead' Wentworth adapts his father's robot paratrooper to perform his chores, but forgets to programme it to keep him out of trouble.
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Egghead's Robot

1967

Pretty Polly
4/4
Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. While in Singapore her aunt's demise leaves her alon...
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Pretty Polly

1975

More Awkward Customers
0/0
Emphasises the importance of professional knowledge of an organisation’s stocks or services in dealing with difficult customers. Highlights the custom...
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More Awkward Customers

1967

To Sir, with Love
7.5/317
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate...
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To Sir, with Love

1997

The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
9/1
Daisy and Onslow find the secret diary of Hyacinth and start reading in it. The rest of this TV-special are clips from prevous episodes.
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The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket

2016

Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge
10/1
Patricia Routledge, as patron of the Beatrix Potter Society, presents a documentary on the author's life and work.
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Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge

1967

Androcles and the Lion
0/0
The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Col...
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Androcles and the Lion

2017

Joe Orton Laid Bare
0/0
Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.
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Joe Orton Laid Bare

1990

Missing Persons
4/1
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage....
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Missing Persons

1969

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
5.71/31
A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

1987

When We Are Married
0/0
Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth...
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When We Are Married

1998

Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet
3/1
A monologue, originally shown on the BBC. Miss Fozzard is a lonely, middle-aged department-store clerk in Soft Furnishings whose free time is mostly s...
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Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet

1992

Miss Pym's Day Out
0/0
In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award for her novel, Quartet in Autumn. This drama docum...
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Miss Pym's Day Out

1982

A Woman of No Importance.
0/0
Award-winning one-woman drama starring Patricia Routledge. What do Miss Schofield and the gang find to talk about at their table in the canteen? Yeste...
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A Woman of No Importance.

1993

The Tale of Tom Kitten & Jemima Puddle-Duck
8/2
The Tale of Tom Kitten was written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter and published by Frederick Warne & Co. in September 1907. In July 1905, Pott...
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The Tale of Tom Kitten & Jemima Puddle-Duck

1992

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
8.5/5
Classic tales of Peter Rabbit."Once upon a time there were four little rabbits, and their names were Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail and Peter." So begins...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

1989

Customers From Hell
0/0
John Cleese training video on customers.
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Customers From Hell

1962

Hobson's Choice
0/0
Maggie Hobson (Patricia Routledge) decides to marry Willie Mossop (Michael Caine), the gifted but underpaid bootmaker in her father's shop. Despite Wi...
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