Patsy Smart
Born: 1918-08-14 in Chingford, Essex, England, UK
Died: 1996-02-06
Known For: Acting
Biography
Patsy Smart (14 August 1918 – 6 February 1996) was an English actress who is best remembered for her performance as Miss Roberts in the 1970s ITV television drama Upstairs, Downstairs. She also appeared in: Danger Man, "Only When I Laugh", Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, The Prisoner, The Avengers, The Sweeney, Doctor Who (The Talons of Weng-Chiang), Blake's 7, Danger UXB, The Chinese Detective, Minder, Rentaghost, Terry and June, Farrington of the F.O., Casualty, Hallelujah!, and The Bill. 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 Miss Marple episode "The Moving Finger" which starred Joan Hickson. Her films included Sons and Lovers (1960), The Tell Tale Heart (1960), Return of a Stranger (1961), What Every Woman Wants (1962), Arthur? Arthur! (1969), Leo the Last (1970), The Raging Moon (1971), Great Expectations (1974), Exposé (1976), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Tess (1979), The Elephant Man (1980) and The Fourth Protocol (1987). Patsy Smart died of barbiturate poisoning in 1996. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Controversial place of birth: Denville Hall, Northwood, Hillingdon, London, England, UK
Filmography
1988
1987
- The Fourth Protocol as Preston's Housekeeper
- Filthy Rich & Catflap as Old Woman
- Claws as Mrs Truforth
1986
- Casualty as Winnie
- Farrington of the F.O. as Enid Parker
- Slinger's Day as Penshioner
- Blake's 7: Duel as Giroc
1985
- Miss Marple: The Moving Finger as Mrs. Cleat
- Lace 2 as Bank Secretary
1984
- The Bill
- Mitch as Rose
- Electric Dreams as Lady in Ticket Line
- The Chain as Old Lady
- The Tragedy of Coriolanus as Gentlewoman
1983
- Cymbeline as Helen
1982
- Q.E.D. as Old Woman
1981
- Never the Twain as Mrs.Piggit
- House on the Hill as Miss Geddes
- The Chinese Detective
- Three of a Kind as Self
1980
- Together as Amy Barratt
- The Elephant Man as Distraught Woman
- The Gentle Touch
- The Squad as Old Lady
- The Wildcats of St Trinian's as Miss Wormold
1979
- Minder as Mrs. Foskitt
- Terry and June as Nora Dingle
- Only When I Laugh as Lady
- Danger UXB as Molly Preston
- Tess as Housekeeper
- The Winter Ladies as Miss Curlew
1978
- Blake's 7 as Giroc
- The Legacy as Cook
- Last Wishes as Miss Bell
1977
- Nicholas Nickleby as Miss La Creevy
- Doctor Who: The Talons of Weng-Chiang as Ghoul
1976
- Rentaghost
- Open All Hours as Mrs Fielding
- The Pink Panther Strikes Again as Mrs Japonica
- Exposé as Mrs. Aston
- The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones as Village Gossip (uncredited)
- Shove Tuesday as Mrs. Sparrow
1975
- The Sweeney as Alice
- Angels
- Carry On Laughing as Old Hag
1974
- Happy Ever After as Miss Ackroyd
- Great Expectations as Mrs. Wopsle
- Carrie's War as Mrs. Gotobed
1973
- O Lucky Man!
- Baffled! as Cleaning Woman
- The Operation as Cleaner
- The Stretch as Customer
1972
- Crown Court as Dorothy Willett
- Steptoe & Son as Mrs Hobbs
1971
- Upstairs, Downstairs as Miss Roberts
- The Raging Moon as Bruce's Mother
1970
- Play for Today as The Cleaner
- Leo the Last as Mrs Kowalksi
- I Can't See My Little Willie as Woman in Bar
1969
- Paul Temple
- Arthur? Arthur! as Miss Bonnamie
1967
- The Prisoner as Night Maid
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as Mrs. Stone
- Travelling Light as Mrs. Thorp
1966
- Bat Out of Hell as Kitty Tracey
1965
- Public Eye as Waitress
- Gideon's Way as Mrs. Samuels
- Never Mention Murder as Nurse
1964
- Story Parade as Customer
- The Caves of Steel as Customer
1963
- Doctor Who as Ghoul
- Festival as Chorus
- Sergeant Cork as Betsy Bishop
1962
- Z-Cars
- Dr. Finlay's Casebook
- Man of the World as Australian Man's Wife
- Design for Loving as Landlady
- What Every Woman Wants as Hilda
1961
- The Avengers as Mrs. Golightly
- Return of a Stranger as Mrs. Rayner
1960
- Danger Man
- Maigret as Mademoiselle Rinquet
- Sons and Lovers as Emma
1959
- No Hiding Place
- One Step Beyond as Ethel, Housekeeper
- Edgar Wallace Mysteries as Nurse