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  PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE BIOGRAPHY
Katherine Patricia Routledge was born on February 17, 1929 in Birkenhead (Merseyside), the daughter of Catherine (nee Perry) and Isaac Edgar Routledge.
Patricia was very close to her family, especially her mother, and speaks with great affection of her parents and with gratitude for her loving and happy childhood.
Patricia has never married, admitting her expectation of marriage has been too high to allow her to make that commitment and she couldn't have borne not to give her children the complete love and attention she'd been given as a child.
britcoms.com /kua/interviews/prbio.html   (1522 words)

  
 Keeping Up Appearances
Patricia Routledge is an acclaimed British actor, possibly best known for "Keeping Up Appearances" where she appears as the grating Hyacinth Bucket.
Patricia, who studied at Liverpool University, the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and London's Guildhall School of Music, made her professional debut at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1952.
Picture on the left is of Miss Routledge as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest staged at The Strand Theatre in London in 2001.
www.tvheaven.ca /kup.htm   (541 words)

  
 Patricia Routledge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Katherine Patricia Routledge CBE (born 17 February 1929) is a Tony Award-winning English actress.
Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire in 1929.
In 1990, Routledge landed the high-profile role in the comedy series Keeping Up Appearances, in which she starred as Hyacinth Bucket, a one-time working-class woman with social pretensions (insisting her surname be pronounced "bouquet") and visions of grandeur (her often-mentioned but never-seen "candlelight suppers" apparently were legendary only in her own mind).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patricia_Routledge   (589 words)

  
 Cast Patricia Routledge
Patricia then worked as an unpaid assistant stage manager at the Liverpool playhouse where she observed with passion and envy actors at work.
Patricia's success did not stop on London stages, she also appeared on Broadway before becoming worldwide famous and loved for her most successful role in "Keeping up appearances" as Hyacinth Bucket.
Sadly for KUA fans, Patricia decided to leave the show, giving it a definite end, to explore even more horizons and not being seen as Hyacinth Bucket for the rest of her life.
www.uk-comedy.com /CastPatriciaR.htm   (338 words)

  
 Fifty-Plus News - Patricia Routledge
Patricia Routledge, still fresh from a virtual plethora of press, radio and TV interviews, was to be found relaxing on a huge chair with crimson carpet beneath, and swathed in a large all-enveloping cape, looking to me every inch the consummate respected performer I expected to see.
This was an indication of the fine tuning I was to discover when the conversation turned to Patricia Routledge’s choice of Director for this play.
Patricia Routledge is particularly pleased with the Australian cast, who have already been rehearsing in London.
www.fiftyplusnews.com /malrid/routledge.shtml   (615 words)

  
 Patricia Routledge
Patricia Routledge (born 17 February 1929) is a popular British actress, best known for television roles such as Hyacinth Bucket[?] in Keeping Up Appearances.
She was born at Birkenhead in Cheshire, and educated at the University of Liverpool, going on to act at the Liverpool Playhouse[?].
She has also played several real-life characters on television, including Barbara Pym and Hildegard of Bingen.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Patricia_Routledge.html   (164 words)

  
 Patricia Routledge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket Patricia Routledge (born 17 February, 1929) is a popular British actress, best known for television roles such as Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances.
Routledge was last seen in the West End in 2004 in The Solid Gold Cadillac.
Having been awarded an OBE in 1993, Routledge was given a CBE in 2004.
patricia-routledge.iqnaut.net   (384 words)

  
 Very kinky? I didn't really enjoy it - Telegraph
In one of them, Routledge plays the busybody of a family firm who, paying a call on a contentedly retired colleague, thoughtlessly updates him on the changes which have annihilated all evidence of his 30-year contribution to the company.
Routledge's upbringing in Birkenhead stressed the value of education and self-improvement.
Bennett's writing is part of a solid Northern spine in Routledge's television career stretching from Coronation Street and Z Cars in the early '60s to her starring roles in Keeping Up Appearances and Hetty Wainthrop Investigates in the '90s.
www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/05/09/bapat109.xml   (1121 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Patricia Routledge In Three Pa: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Patricia Routledge, best known for her role as the social-climbing Hyacinth Bucket on the popular British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, shows off her dramatic range in this trilogy of one-woman performance pieces written by the celebrated English playwright Alan Bennett.
All these monologues show Patricia Routledge performing at her best...and what a range of tallent she has.
If your looking for Hyacinth...stick to Keeping up Appearances...but if you want to see Patricia in a range of emotion in some very interesting and entertaining monologues then this DVD is a must for any Patricia Routledge or British tv fan.
www.amazon.ca /Patricia-Routledge-In-Three-Pa/dp/B0000TG8VQ   (446 words)

  
 Patricia Routledge
Patricia Routledge, widely known from television’s Keeping up Appearances and Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, is one of the UK’s most distinguished actresses.
Patricia Routledge, best known to television viewers as the status-obsessed Hyacinth Bucket on the long-running British comedy series Keeping Up Appearances, takes on a very different role in this made-for-TV mystery.
Hetty Wainthropp (Routledge) is a sensible and practical woman in her early sixties.
www.lycos.com /info/patricia-routledge--alan-bennett.html   (518 words)

  
 Zap2it: Patricia Routledge, Three Portraits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Patricia Routledge is renowned here for her superior acting abilities in such TV fare as the gently English "Hetty Weinthrop Investigates" and the British-inferior sitcom, "Keeping Up Appearances: Hyacinth Springs Eternal."
Routledge) are generally bittersweet, but not without their charms.
"Patricia Routledge, Three Portraits" is offered by the BBC Video for $25 retail.
movies.zap2it.com /movies/news/pstory/0,3382,21434,00.html   (310 words)

  
 Funny Women: Patricia Routledge on KUED 7- The University of Utah
Patricia Routledge has established herself as one of Britain's foremost actresses with a string of TV credits including Hetty Wainthropp Investigates, Keeping Up Appearances and Talking Heads.
FUNNY WOMEN: PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE is a delightful biography covering the actress's extraordinarily full and varied career, beginning in 1961 with her role on Coronation Street through the lampooning farce of Hyacinth Bucket - her character in Keeping Up Appearances.
There are no Funny Women: Patricia Routledge episodes in the schedule on All Channels.
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 Patricia Routledge Photos - Patricia Routledge News - Patricia Routledge Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Her father was a haberdasher, and during WWII, the family lived weeks at a time living in the basement of her father's shop.
Tell the world what you think of Patricia Routledge, write a review for this person.
Patricia Routledge played Hyacinth Bucket, a woman who pretended to be upper-class...
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 Patricia Routledge
Patricia Routledge was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, on 17 February 1929, and educated at Birkenhead High School and the University of Liverpool, where she gained an Honours degree in English Literature and Language.
A substantial hit in London, Routledge went with the play to New York in October 1966, beginning an association with Broadway that would result in some of her finest work in musical theatre.
Indeed, there was nothing of interest for her to do in Britain, where she steadily built a reputation as an outstanding actress, not least in leading roles opposite Alastair Sim, who became almost a mentor to her.
www.musical-theatre.net /html/unsungheroines/patriciaroutledge.html   (1147 words)

  
 Patricia Routledge Bio - Patricia Routledge Biography - Patricia Routledge Stories
Patricia has worked in TV since the early 1950s, most recently in Keeping Up Appearances.
She has also recorded an album, Presenting Patricia Routledge, and worked in film and radio.
She has never married or had children, has said that she will not retire, and lives in Kensington and Surrey when not working.
www.tv.com /patricia-routledge/person/7556/biography.html   (189 words)

  
 Patricia Routledge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
In the nineties Patricia found UK TV fame as Mrs Bucket (pronounced Bouquet) in the hit comedy series Keeping Up Appearances.
This was followed by the series Hetty Wainthorpe Investigates in which she played a retired woman turned private eye.
Patricia was awarded a 'Tony' in 1968 (for Best Actress in a Musical Play in "Darling of the Day")
www.a2zpeople.com /p/pa/patricia+routledge.asp   (887 words)

  
 Missing Persons | Cast & Crew | MTV Movies
Patricia Routledge, best known to television viewers as the status-obsessed Hyacinth Bucket on the long-running British comedy series Keeping Up Appearances, takes on a very different role in this made-for-TV mystery.
Hetty Wainthropp (Routledge) is a sensible and practical woman in her early sixties.
Missing Persons became a pilot for a series of Hetty Wainthropp mysteries starring Routledge, which ran for four seasons; the character was adapted from the writings of novelist David Cook.
www.mtv.com /movies/movie/101609/castcrew.jhtml   (160 words)

  
 Patricia Routledge
When Hetty's plan proves to be a success, she gets a private detective's license and becomes a full-time sleuth, to the slight annoyance of her kitchen-phobic husband.
Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge take on the world in another hilarious series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy hit.
Routledge was awarded the OBE (Order of the British Empire) in the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to the Performing Arts.
www.lycos.com /info/patricia-routledge.html   (518 words)

  
 Patricia Routledge News - Topix
BOTH these Alan Bennett plays feature Patricia Routledge and are wonderfully funny, whilst also being poignant and sad.
Office Suite, Malvern Theatre PATRICIA Routledge is starring in a sparkling Alan Bennett comedy in Malvern next week.
PATRICIA Routledge will take to the stage to star in Alan Bennett's witty and poignant Office Suite.
www.topix.net /who/patricia-routledge   (586 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Patricia Routledge In Three Portraits : Main
Patricia Routledge, best known for her role as the social-climbing Hyacinth Bucket on the...
Patricia Routledge, best known for her role as the social-climbing Hyacinth Bucket on the popular British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, shows off her dramatic range in this trilogy of one-woman performance pieces written by the celebrated English playwright Alan Bennett.
Routledge plays a middle-aged spinster discussing a life...
www.vh1.com /movies/movie/245898/moviemain.jhtml   (95 words)

  
 John Thaw | Patricia Routledge | BlackAdder DVD | Celeb Castaway
Patricia Routledge as steadily evolved into one of British Television's most popular, and accomplished, actresses.
This week you can sample the many sides of Patricia Routledge from accomplished actress to society wannabe to suburban sleuth as PBS and BBC America present four programs, between them, featuring this most versatile of actresses.
Routledge who portrays a spinster who finds love in the least likely of places - a podiatrist's office.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_television/73365   (328 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Patricia Routledge in Three Portraits [1982] (REGION 1) (NTSC): DVD: Patricia Routledge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
This is one of three, 30-minute monologues written by Alan Bennett for Patricia Routledge.
Patricia Routledge probably is best known in the United States as Hyacinth Bucket and Hetty Wainthropp on television.
As extras there is a short television play by Bennett from 1982 with Routledge and a BBC interview featuring both Bennett and Routledge.
www.amazon.co.uk /Patricia-Routledge-Three-Portraits-REGION/dp/B0000TG8VQ   (915 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Patricia Routledge in Three Portraits: DVD: Patricia Routledge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
In superb performances, Patricia Routledge reaches beneath the surface to reveal unexpected secrets.
I already was familiar with Routledge from her television roles as Hyacinth Bucket and Hetty Wainthrope, but I hadn't realized what a great actress she was until I saw the three one-woman shows in this set.
I am a fan of Patricia Routledge but have to say that I was very disappointed in Three Portraits.
www.amazon.com /Patricia-Routledge-Three-Portraits/dp/B0000TG8VQ   (1411 words)

  
 ★ Patricia Routledge Address - FanMail.biz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
I received a 5x7" back personally signed by actress Patricia Routledge.
Patricia has played many parts on TV, but is perhaps best known for her character of Hyacinth Bucket (Bouquet) in the BBC's "Keeping Up Appearances".
I sent Patricia Routledge a letter and i recieved this autographed photo for my grandmother who is a huge fan!
www.fanmail.biz /51410.html   (262 words)

  
 Patricia Routledge in Three Portraits - Rotten Tomatoes
Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Patricia Routledge in Three Portraits to receive a rating.
Working with one of England's most celebrated actresses, Patricia Routledge, Bennett has found a figure who can do justice to his sprawling tales.
"Routledge inhabits desperately unhappy women who endeavor mightily to convince us their lives are more than what they are..."
www.rottentomatoes.com /m/patricia_routledge_in_three_portraits   (361 words)

  
 Patricia Routledge - Photos, Bio and News for Patricia Routledge | TVGuide.com
Patricia Routledge - Photos, Bio and News for Patricia Routledge
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 Patricia Routledge in Three Portraits Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
Patricia Routledge in Three Portraits Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
DVD > Patricia Routledge in Three Portraits: Standard Release DVD > Features
Alan Titchmarsh interviews Alan Bennett and Patricia Routledge
www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/68/43068/features.php   (251 words)

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