Name | Pat Coombs |
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Birth date | August 27, 1926 |
Birth place | Camberwell, London, England |
Death date | May 25, 2002 |
Death place | Northwood, Greater London, England |
Death cause | Emphysema |
Birthname | Patricia Doreen Coombs |
Occupation | Actress |
Coombs attended the County School for Girls in Beckenham, Kent. After leaving school she began her working life as a student kindergarten teacher before her keenness for acting prompted her to take drama lessons during the Second World War with her friend and neighbour Vivien Merchant. At the age of 19, she won a scholarship to train as an actress at Lamda, where she subsequently taught dialect to students.
After a relatively unsuccessful partnership with Peggy Mount in the television series Lollipop Loves Mr Mole (ITV, 1971), the two found a better platform for their talents when they were reunited in Yorkshire TV's You're Only Young Twice (1977–1981), set in a home for the elderly; the two actresses were to become close friends.
During her long career, Pat made two memorable contributions to Dad's Army. In 1970, she played Mrs Hall in the movie, and later in 1975, she played the dual part of Marie/the Clippie in the radio adaptation of A Soldier's Farewell.
Her other television work included Beggar My Neighbour (1967), Cucumber Castle (1970), Don't Drink the Water (1974–75), Up Pompeii! (1969), Till Death Us Do Part (1966–75) and its sequel In Sickness And In Health (1990, 1992), and The Lady is a Tramp (1983), in which she co-starred with Patricia Hayes in a series set among 'down-and-outs'. Coombs was also the subject of This is Your Life in 1978 and appeared regularly as a guest on Noel Edmonds's Saturday night entertainment show Noel's House Party (1992–95) and on the game shows Blankety Blank and Celebrity Squares'' (1975–79), returning for its revival in 1993-94.
In 1989 she appeared in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders. For a year she played Marge Green, Brown Owl of the Walford Brownies' pack, where she worked closely with EastEnders stalwarts June Brown, Edna Doré and Gretchen Franklin. Coombs's character was introduced as part of a deliberate attempt to bring humour into the programme, which had come under attack for being too depressing. However many viewers felt that the comic storylines stretched the programme's credibility. The character subsequently became one of many to be axed in 1990 following the introduction of new executive producer, Michael Ferguson. Pat Coombs was said to be extremely upset that the character of Marge only lasted for one year, but the producers felt there was no place in the programme's new plan for a character "whose prime function was to be comic relief".
Following her stint in EastEnders Coombs went on to guest in the BBC comedy Birds of a Feather, Boon and the BBC medical drama Doctors in 2001, which was her last appearance on screen.
She had just completed a role for Radio 4 alongside June Whitfield in Like They've Never Been Gone when she died, aged 75, on 25 May 2002 from emphysema in Denville Hall actors' home, a west London nursing home to which she had moved to be close to her friend Peggy Mount, who had died six months earlier.
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