Patricia Routledge

ActingBorn: February 17, 1929in Tranmere, Merseyside, England, UKDied: October 3, 2025

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.

Patricia Routledge

Comedy Classic: Keeping Up Appearances

Remembers…

Joe Orton Laid Bare

Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

The Funny Blokes of British Comedy

Anybody's Nightmare

Talking Heads 2

Parkinson

The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Hildegard

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck

The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

Miss Pym's Day Out

Mrs Pym's Day Out

Keeping Up Appearances

Missing Persons

First and Last

Customers From Hell

Talking Heads

Talking Heads

Talking Heads

Barry Humphries: This is Your Lunch

When We Are Married

Marjorie And Men

Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV

Natural World

Keep Off The Grass

Affairs of the Heart

The Beggar's Opera

A Woman of No Importance.

Objects of Affection

The Pirates of Penzance

The Curse of King Tut's Tomb

The Imitation Game

Tales of the Unexpected

Doris and Doreen

A Visit from Miss Prothero

An Audience with...

BBC2 Play of the Week

Plain Jane

Nicholas Nickleby

Jubilee 1977

More Awkward Customers

Affairs of the Heart

...And Mother Makes Five

Girl Stroke Boy

Sense and Sensibility

Play for Today

Up Among the Cuckoos

Egghead's Robot

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Lock Up Your Daughters

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River

Ooh La La!

30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia!

Androcles and the Lion

Pretty Polly

ITV Playhouse

To Sir, with Love

NET Playhouse

Iolanthe

BBC Play of the Month

BBC Play of the Month

Thirty-Minute Theatre

Victoria Regina

Hobson's Choice

Z-Cars

Sunday-Night Play

No Hiding Place

Theatre Night

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre

Tony Awards

ITV Play of the Week