British actress best known for her role as Mildred Roper in the 70s sitcom Man About the House and its spin-off George and Mildred. Born to musical parents Hurst Needham and Jessica Rivett in 1927, Joyce was trained at RADA, toured with ENSA and came to prominence via the Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop, securing roles in TV shows such as The Avengers, Man in a Suitcase, Te Saint, Jason King and Steptoe and Son, and the films The Pumpkin Eater, A Man For All Seasons, Charlie Bubbles, All the Right Noises and Burke and Hare. She was married to fellow actor Glynn Edwards from 1956 to 1968, and they remained friends all her life. An alcoholic, Joyce died from liver failure in 198o, just four days after her 53rd birthday. Her sitcom co-star Brian Murphy was by her side. In 1986 the Smiths used an image of Joyce on the sleeve of their UK single release Ask and the German release of Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others securing her place as a British cultural icon.

All movies available from Yootha Joyce

Poster movie A Man for All Seasons

A Man for All Seasons

Movie
Poster movie Fanatic

Fanatic

Movie
Poster movie All the Right Noises

All the Right Noises

Movie
Poster movie Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope

Movie
Poster movie Frankenstein: The True Story

Frankenstein: The True St

Movie
Poster movie Steptoe & Son Ride Again

Steptoe & Son Ride Again

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Movies unavailable from Yootha Joyce

Our Mother's House

Mrs. Quayle

Movie 1967

George & Mildred

Mildred Roper

Movie 1980

Burke & Hare

Mrs. Hare

Movie 1972

Luther

Katharine Luther

Movie 1968

Nearest and Dearest

Movie 1972

A Place to Go

Bit Role (uncredited)

Movie 1963

Man About the House: 50 Years of Laughs

Archive Footage

Movie 2023

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

Mrs. Finch

Movie 1973

The Road Builder

Mrs. Palafox

Movie 1971

The Fishing Match

Cissy

Movie 1962

Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar

Movie 1968

The Pumpkin Eater

Woman at Hairdresser's

Movie 1964

Man About the House

Mildred

Movie 1974

Fragment of Fear

Miss Ward-Cadbury

Movie 1970

Charlie Bubbles

Woman in Cafe

Movie 1968

Cop-Out

Shooting Range Girl

Movie 1967

Catch Us If You Can

Nan

Movie 1965

Sparrows Can't Sing

Barmaid

Movie 1963

Twenty-Nine

The prostitute

Movie 1969

Tv series unavailable from Yootha Joyce

Seven of One

Tv 1973

On the Buses

Tv 1969

Man About the House

Tv 1973

George and Mildred

Mildred Roper

Tv 1976

The Avengers

Miss Lister

Tv 1961

Jason King

Tv 1971

Frankenstein: The True Story

Hospital Matron

Tv 1973

The Saint

Milanov

Tv 1962

No Hiding Place

Tv 1959

Corrigan Blake

Tv 1962

Manhunt

Denise

Tv 1970