Patricia Routledge
Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, DBE (17 February 1929 – 3 October 2025) was a British actress, comedian and singer. She was 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 |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0623 |
| Birthday | 1929-02-17 |
| Place of Birth | Tranmere, Merseyside, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1968
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River
6.611/9
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
7/4
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
7/1
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
5.625/8
When a young man brings an unexpected new partner home for dinner, the underlying prejudices of his straitlaced, middle-class parents are brought to t...
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Girl Stroke Boy
1983
Keep Off The Grass
7.667/3
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
4.75/8
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
6.583/12
As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Now, having reached his 21st y...
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The Pirates of Penzance
2001
Anybody's Nightmare
5.8/5
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
6.786/14
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
5.5/2
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!
5.4/5
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
7.929/7
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
6.5/2
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
8.5/2
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 Classic: Keeping Up Appearances
7.3/3
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 Classic: Keeping Up Appearances
1994
Hildegard
6.5/2
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
6/2
'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
4.167/6
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
9/1
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
7.447/361
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
9.5/2
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
9/1
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
5.905/37
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
7/1
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
1992
Miss Pym's Day Out
8/1
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.
10/1
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 World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck
8/2
"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 2. Tom Kitten and his sisters spoil the tea party of their mother Tabitha, while Jemina Puddle-Duck m...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck
2006
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
8.5/7
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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Hobson's Choice
1969
Lock Up Your Daughters
6/3
Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.
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Lock Up Your Daughters
1988
Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch
0/0
Barry Humphries performance at The Hilton Hotel London for The Variety Club of Great Britain.
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Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch
1966
Iolanthe
0/0
Half-fae-half-mortal shepherd Strephon wants to wed shepherdress Phyllis, but, although she reciprocates his feelings, she has a dilemma — she is so b...
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Iolanthe
1977
Plain Jane
0/0
A well-to-do family moves from the city to a country farmhouse, determined to make a go of things on their own, but the existence of an already presen...
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Plain Jane
1993
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding
0/0
"The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends", episode 3. While hiding from his mother Tabitha, Tom Kitten got caught by two rats who wants to turn him into...
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The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding
2005
The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
6.5/2
Movie with some of the greatest brittish comedians such as Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese.
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