Creator / Wendy Richard

"That'll do, Miss Brahms"

"Dad's Army, Up Pompeii, Are You Being Served?, Not On Your Nellie, On the Buses, Fenn Street Gang, Please Sir!, Carry On Girls, Carry On Matron, Bless This House - I've worked in some of the best TV and films in light entertainment."

Wendy Richard, MBE, born Wendy Emerton, (20 July 1943 — 26 February 2009), was a British actress best known for playing Miss Brahms in every episode of Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler in EastEnders.

After she left drama school, she wrote to agents to try and find work in films. She had one scene in Help! that was cut from the final release and had a small role in Doctor in Clover.

Her first break on TV came in 1967 as Joyce Harker in The Newcomers. After the show ended, she was cast as Private Walker's girlfriend in a few episodes of Dad's Army. In 1972, she was cast as Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served?. She also returned to the role for the film and in Grace & Favour.

The year AYBS? ended, Richard was cast as Pauline Fowler in EastEnders. She stayed with the role until 2006, when she decided to leave the series, and Pauline was Killed Off for Real.

She died of breast cancer at the age of 65.

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Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:

Film

• Help! (1965) — Drama Student (Deleted Role)
• Doctor in Clover (1966) — Nurse with False Eyelashes (Uncredited Role)
• No Blade of Grass (1970) — Clara Pirrie
• On the Buses (1971) — Housewife
• Carry On Matron (1972) — Miss Willing
• Carry On Girls (1973) — Ida Downs
• Are You Being Served? (1977) — Miss Shirley Brahms

Series

• Dixon of Dock Green, 2 episodes:
  • "The Outlaws" (1962) — Jean Davis
  • "Nightmare Hours" (1971) — Barbara Walker
• The Likely Lads, episode "Last of the Big Spenders" (1965) — Lynn
• Up Pompeii, episode "The Ides of March" (1970) — Soppia
• Dad's Army, 4 episodes^{show list} "The Two and a Half Feathers", "Mum's Army", "The King Was in His Counting House", "My British Buddy" (1970-73) — Shirley Parish
• Carry On Christmas, episode Carry On Again Christmas (1970) — Kate
• Please Sir!, episode "The Pruning of Hedges" (1971) — Rita
• On the Buses, episode "The Busmen's Ball" (1971) — Elsie
• Are You Being Served?, 69 episodes (1972-85) — Miss Shirley Brahms
• Z Cars, episode "Big Jake" (1973) — Maureen Parker
• Whodunnit?, episode "A Safe Way to Die" (1978) — Phyllis Collier
• EastEnders, 2,050 episodes (1985-2006) — Pauline Fowler
• Grace & Favour, 12 episodes (1992-93) — Miss Shirley Brahms
• Doctor Who, episode "Dimensions In Time" (1993) — Pauline Fowler
• Benidorm, 1 episode (2008) — Sylvia
• Marple, episode "A Pocket Full of Rye" (2008) — Mrs. Crump

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