British actress best known for her role as Mildred Roper in the ’70s sitcom Man About the House and its spin-off George and Mildred. Born to musical parents Hurst Needham and Jessica Rivett in 1927, Joyce was trained at RADA, toured with ENSA and came to prominence via the Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop, securing roles in TV shows such as The Avengers, Man in a Suitcase, Te Saint, Jason King and Steptoe and Son, and the films The Pumpkin Eater, A Man For All Seasons, Charlie Bubbles, All the Right Noises and Burke and Hare. She was married to fellow actor Glynn Edwards from 1956 to 1968, and they remained friends all her life. An alcoholic, Joyce died from liver failure in 198o, just four days after her 53rd birthday. Her sitcom co-star Brian Murphy was by her side. In 1986 the Smiths used an image of Joyce on the sleeve of their UK single release “Ask” and the German release of “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others” securing her place as a British cultural icon.
Yootha Joyce Biography / Wiki
| Name | Yootha Joyce |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Wandsworth, London, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1927-08-20 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 53 |
| Deathday | 1980-08-24 |
Yootha Joyce Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| George & Mildred | Mildred Roper | 1980-10-10 | Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper (Yootha Joyce, who died shortly after filming was completed) is determined to make husband … |
| Your Name’s Not God, It’s Edgar | 1968-12-09 | Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will m… | |
| Burke & Hare | Mrs. Hare | 1972-02-03 | Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves…. |
| Never Mind the Quality: Feel the Width | Mrs. Finch | 1973-01-03 | Two London tailors horse around, wind up robbed, go to Rome and disrupt the Vatican…. |
| Twenty-Nine | The prostitute | 1969-01-01 | Graham Baird wakes up in strange clothes in a strange apartment, both he and his wife want to know where he had been the previous night…. |
| Man About the House | Mildred | 1974-12-22 | An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings.Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered mon… |
| Fanatic | Anna | 1965-03-21 | A young woman is terrorized by her fiance’s demented mother who blames her for her son’s death…. |
| The Road Builder | Mrs. Palafox | 1971-02-25 | The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more … |
| Steptoe and Son Ride Again | Freda | 1973-05-01 | Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at th… |
| Nearest and Dearest | 1972-01-01 | Jimmy Jewel and Hylda Baker star in this big screen spin-off of one of ITV’s most popular comedy series of all time. When the father of Eli and Nellie… | |
| Our Mother’s House | Mrs. Quayle | 1967-09-14 | Seven British children bury their mother and hide her death, until their long-lost father returns…. |
| Kaleidoscope | Museum Receptionist | 1966-07-01 | Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plat… |
| Fragment of Fear | Miss Ward-Cadbury | 1970-09-03 | A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt…. |
| Catch Us If You Can | Nan | 1965-07-15 | Dinah is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat… |
| The Pumpkin Eater | Woman at Hairdresser’s | 1964-07-16 | Jo, the mother of seven children, divorces her second husband in order to marry Jake, a successful but promiscuous screenwriter. Though they are physi… |
| A Place to Go | Bit Role (uncredited) | 1963-07-01 | Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-cl… |
| A Man for All Seasons | Averil Machin | 1966-12-13 | A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy de… |
| Frankenstein: The True Story | Hospital Matron | 1974-09-19 | Victor Frankenstein witnesses his creation turn uncontrollable after he’s duped by his associate, Dr. Polidori…. |
| Charlie Bubbles | Woman in Cafe | 1968-02-11 | Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a… |
| Cop-Out | Shooting Range Girl | 1967-05-23 | John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter’s boyfriend is acc… |
| All the Right Noises | Mrs. Bird | 1971-01-01 | A married man with two small children begins an affair with a beautiful young actress which quickly blossoms into a full blown romance, until she tell… |
| Sparrows Can’t Sing | Barmaid | 1963-03-26 | Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up wi… |
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