Yootha Joyce Needham was born in Wandsworth, London, the only child of musical parents Percival "Hurst" Needham, a singer, and Jessie Maud (née Revitt), a concert pianist. [3] [4] She was named "Yootha" after a New Zealand dancer in her father's touring company, a name she would later say she "loathed and detested". [5]Joyce's biography states that her heavily pregnant mother went for a walk ...

5 days ago · Yootha Joyce died at the age of just 53 after struggling with long-term alcoholism - and her co-star Brian Murphy was at her bedside. ... Liam Payne's girlfriend defends funeral outfit and shuts ...

Aug 6, 2023 · Yootha Joyce Needham, known as Yootha Joyce, was an English actress best known for playing Mildred Roper opposite Brian Murphy in the sitcom Man About the Ho...

Aug 5, 2019 · In the summer of that year she passed away suffering from liver failure at the age of just 53 - the inquest into her death revealed she had been drinking upwards of half a bottle of brandy a day...

Aug 14, 2023 · View Yootha JOYCE's notice to leave tributes, photos, videos, light candles and for funeral arrangements

Aug 24, 2024 · There was a national outpouring of grief at the loss of such a colossal talent and in 2001 friends and colleagues paid tribute in a documentary entitled The Unforgettable Yootha Joyce.

Jan 5, 2025 · Her on screen husband and good friend Brian Murphy was at her bedside. The inquest into her death revealed she had been drinking up to half a bottle of brandy a day for ten years and much more...

Sep 26, 2024 · Joyce's funeral took place on 3 September 1980 at Golders Green Crematorium. Joyce appeared posthumously in her last recorded television performance, duetting with Max Bygraves on his variety show Max singing the song "For …

Popular British comic actress. Her most famous role came in the 1970's sitcom George and Mildred.

Yootha Joyce's funeral took place on 3 September 1980 at Golders Green Crematorium, where she was cremated.