British actress with some small roles in comedy films of the early 1970s, most remembered as EastEnders 'Pauline Fowler'. Died after a long battle with cancer; Britain has lost an icon.
Wendy Richard (65) British actress whose 40-year TV career included roles as a sexy cockney shop assistant on the sitcom Are You Being Served? and a working-class matriarch on the soap opera EastEnders, both of which have aired in the US. Richard was diagnosed with breast cancer in the mid-'90s and again in 2002. In 2008 she learned that the disease had returned and spread. She died in London, England on February 26, 2009. |
Nurse with False Eyelashes | 1965 | |
![]() | Clara | 1970 |
![]() | Housewife | 1971 |
Anne Scott | 1971 | |
![]() | Carol | 1972 |
![]() | Miss Willing | 1972 |
![]() | Ida Downs | 1973 |
Miss Brahms | 1976 |