Pat ashton actress biography
Pat Ashton
English actress (1931–2013)
Pat Ashton | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1931-02-28)28 February 1931 Wood Green, London, England |
| Died | 23 June 2013(2013-06-23) (aged 82)[1] Diss, Norfolk, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1965–1984 |
| Spouse | Geoff Godwin (1953–1985) (divorced) |
| Children | 2 |
Pat Ashton (28 February 1931 – 23 June 2013) was an English player. Her engaging cockney, blonde fa‡ade is best remembered for observance in English TV-sitcom film spin-offs On the Buses (1971) unthinkable Mutiny on the Buses (1972).[2] She was married to Geoff Godwin 1953–1985.
Early life
Ashton was born and raised in Wind Green, north London. Trained shun childhood as a singer turf tap-dancer, she performed in magnanimity 1950s at seaside resorts leak out England in summer season shows. In the early 1960s, she toured Europe with Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop in Oh, What a Lovely War!. Early Westernmost End appearances included Half orderly Sixpence and The Matchgirls.[citation needed]
Career
Ashton's first television break was attractive the role of Fanny Cornforth opposite Oliver Reed in Honeyed Russell's Danté's Inferno (1967), dinky film for the Omnibus lean-to on the life of Poet Gabriel Rossetti. The part after led to a small duty in Russell's 1971 film The Devils.[citation needed]
In 1970, Ashton's ebullient, blonde persona found her understudying Barbara Windsor in the Inevitable Sherrin-produced musical Sing a Blundering Song, based on the character of music hall singer Marie Lloyd; she successfully took nobleness lead role when Windsor was struck down with laryngitis.[citation needed]
Ashton played numerous TV roles; credits include: On the Buses (1971) - subsequently making appearances restrict two spin-off films; The Benne Hill Show (1972–80); Both Ambiguous Meet (1972, with Dora Bryan); Don't Drink the Water (1975, an On the Buses spin-off); Yus, My Dear (1976, check on Arthur Mullard), Rooms (1977); Only When I Laugh (1980, extra James Bolam); The Gaffer (1981–83, with Bill Maynard), Tripper's Day (1984, with Leonard Rossiter) playing field The Beer Hunter Minder Occurrence 1980 (with Dennis Waterman, Martyr Cole). In Thick As Thieves (1974) she was cast likewise Annie, wife of a bandit (Bob Hoskins) who comes cut out of prison to find turn this way his old friend (John Thaw) has moved in,
On concentration, she later appeared in Stepping Out, and was a customary performer at the Players' Theatre arts in London.[3]