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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drama '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. She also appeared in: ''

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'', '' Only When I Laugh'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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''), ''

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'' (''The Case of the Final Curtain''), ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Farrington of the F.O.'', ''

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'', '' Hallelujah!'', and ''

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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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'' episode "The Moving Finger" which starred

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. Her films included ''

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'' (1960), ''

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'' (1960), '' Return of a Stranger'' (1961), '' What Every Woman Wants'' (1962), ''

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'' (1969), ''

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'' (1970), ''

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'' (1971), ''

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'' (1974), ''

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'' (1976), ''

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'' (1979), ''

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'' (1980) and '' The Fourth Protocol'' (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'' (also known as ''Fashion for Loving'') is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring June Thorburn, Pete Murray and Soraya Rafat. A beatnik becomes a top fashion model. Plot With an eye on the ...

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

Never Mention Murder ''Never Mention Murder'' is a 1964 British second feature film directed by John Nelson Burton and starring Maxine Audley, Dudley Foster and Michael Coles. Part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries films made at Merton Park Studios, it is b ...

'' - nurse *''

'' (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 a ...

'' (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 Anderso ...

'' (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 Distributi ...

'' (1975) - Old Maid (uncredited) *''

'' (1976) - Mrs. Aston *''

The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones ''The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones'' is a 1976 British comedy film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Nicky Henson, Trevor Howard and Terry-Thomas. It is an adaptation of the 1749 novel ''Tom Jones'' by Henry Fielding, which follows the main ...

'' (1976) - Village Gossip (uncredited) *''

'' (1976) - Mrs. Japonica *''

The Hound of the Baskervilles ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' is the third of the four Detective fiction, crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serial (literature), serialised in ''The Strand Magazine'' from ...

'' (1978) - Masseuse (uncredited) *''

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'' (1978) - Cook *''

'' (1979) - Housekeeper *'' The Wildcats of St. Trinian's'' (1980) - Miss Warmold *''

'' (1980) - Distraught Woman *'' Electric Dreams'' (1984) - Lady in Ticket Line *''

The Chain "The Chain" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on their 1977 album '' Rumours''. It is the only song from the album with writing credits for all five members (Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, John ...

'' (1984) - Old Lady *'' The Fourth Protocol'' (1987) - Preston's Housekeeper

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Smart, Patsy 1918 births 1996 deaths Burials at West Norwood Cemetery English people of Australian descent English television actresses Actors from the London Borough of Waltham Forest 20th-century English actresses Actresses from Essex People from Chingford