Patsy Smart (14 August 1918 – 6 February 1996) was an English actress, best remembered for her performance as Miss Roberts in the 1970s ITV

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''. In her later roles, she was expert at playing dotty old ladies, her Mrs Sibley and Miss Dingle characters in ''Terry and June'' being examples. Another example was as the wife of the gardener in the ''

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'' (1970), ''

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'' (1974), '' Exposé'' (1976), ''

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'' (1976), ''

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'' (1979), '' The Elephant Man'' (1980) and ''

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'' (1987). Patsy Smart died of

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on 6 February 1996, aged 77.

Partial filmography

*'' The Flying Scot'' (1957) - Mother (uncredited) *''

'' (1960) - Emma *''

'' (1960) - Mrs. Marlow *'' Return of a Stranger'' (1961) - Mrs. Rayner *''

Design for Loving ''Design for Loving'' is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring June Thorburn, Pete Murray and Soraya Rafat. Its plot concerns a beatnik who becomes a top fashion model. It is also known by the alternative title ''F ...

'' (1962) - Landlady *'' What Every Woman Wants'' (1962) - Hilda *''

'' (1969) - Miss Bonnamie *''

'' (1970) - Mrs. Kowalski *''

'' (1971) - Bruce's Mother *''

Steptoe and Son ''Steptoe and Son'' is a British sitcom written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson about a father-and-son rag-and-bone business in 26a Oil Drum Lane, a fictional street in Shepherd's Bush, London. Four series were broadcast by the BBC in black and ...

'' (1972) - Mrs. Hobbs *''

O Lucky Man! ''O Lucky Man!'' is a 1973 British comedy-drama fantasy film directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring Malcolm McDowell as Mick Travis, whom McDowell had first played as a disaffected public schoolboy in his first film performance in An ...

'' (1973) *''

'' (1974) - Mrs. Wopsle *''

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing ''One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing'' is a 1975 comedy film set in the early 1920s, about the theft of a dinosaur skeleton from the Natural History Museum. The film was produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution ...

'' (1975) - Old Maid (uncredited) *'' Exposé'' (1976) - Mrs. Aston *''