Doremy Vernon is a British actress best known for playing the Canteen Manageress in Are You Being Served?.
While at first, she was a member of the Tiller Girls dance troupe, she later changed careers into acting. Her first role came in 1967, in an episode of The Charlie Drake Show. She appeared in a further four episodes by the end of 1968. Finishing off The '60s, she made guest appearances in Not in Front of the Children and another one of Charlie Drake's series, The Worker.
Come the start of The '70s, Vernon began making film appearances too, with roles in The Devils, Family Life, and Made. In the 1975 Are You Being Served? Christmas Episode, "Christmas Crackers", she appeared as a crabby waitress in the Grace Brothers canteen. Vernon clearly made an impression on the writers, and the following year she returned for the next Christmas episode, "The Father Christmas Affair", where her waitress was now the surly manageress of the canteen. Mrs. Yardswick as she was known would make appearances in all further series barring the fifth, and by the final few series became more of a recurring character, appearing in five of Series 10's seven episodes.
During and after her work on AYBS?, Vernon continued to appear in sitcoms, with guest roles in episodes of Citizen Smith, Hi-de-Hi!, and One Foot in the Grave. Her final acting role came in 1998, in the film Croupier.
Works on TV Tropes she appeared in:
Films- The Devils (1971) — Nun (Uncredited Role)
- Dixon of Dock Green, episodes:
- "Sgt. George Dixon" (1972) — Joyce Grange
- "Who Needs Enemies" (1972) — Brenda Page
- "Three's Company" (1974) — Rene Parsons
- "For Better, for Worse" (1975) — Mrs. Curtis
- Are You Being Served?, 15 episodes (1975-85) — Mrs. Diana Yardswick, the Canteen Manageress
- Citizen Smith, episode "The Glorious Day" (1979) — Charlady
- Hi-de-Hi!, episode "The Day of Reckoning" (1981) — Mrs. Armitage
- The Two Ronnies, 1 episode (1982) — Doris
- One Foot in the Grave, episode "In Luton Airport No-One Can Hear You Scream" (1990) — Irate Neighbour
- The Bill, 2 episodes:
- "Desirable Property" (1993) — Doreen Ferris
- "Hit and Miss" (1995) — Shirley McGuire
