Yootha Joyce Death
Yootha passed away on August 24, 1980 at the age of 53 in London, England. Yootha's cause of death was hepatitis.
When did Yootha Joyce die?
August 24, 1980How did Yootha Joyce die? What was the cause of death?
HepatitisHow old was Yootha Joyce when died?
53Where did Yootha Joyce die? What was the location of death?
London, England
Yootha Joyce Birthday and Date of Death
Yootha Joyce was born on August 20, 1927 and died on August 24, 1980. Yootha was 53 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: August 20, 1927
Date of Death: August 24, 1980
Age at Death: 53
Yootha Joyce - Biography
Yootha Joyce (20 August 1927 – 24 August 1980) was an English actress, best known for playing Mildred Roper in sitcom Man About the House and its spin-off George and Mildred.
In the 1960s and 1970s Joyce became a familiar face in many one-off sitcom roles and supporting parts in films, with her first main recurring role being Miss Argyll, frustrated girlfriend of the title star Milo O'Shea in three series of Me Mammy (1968–71); most of the tapes of that series are now lost. Prior to that, she played a cameo role in Jack Clayton's The Pumpkin Eater (1964) as a psychotic young woman opposite Anne Bancroft, delivering a performance that has been called one of the "best screen acting miniatures one could hope to see." She also had a featured role (as brassy housekeeper Mrs Quayle) in Clayton's next film Our Mother's House (1967), a dark drama starring Dirk Bogarde, which dealt with a group of young children who conceal the death of their single mother to prevent being split up.
A feature film was made of George and Mildred in 1980, but this was to be her last work. Amidst growing concern over her health, she was admitted to hospital in the summer of 1980. Joyce died in hospital of liver failure four days after her 53rd birthday on 24 August 1980. Her co-star and good friend Brian Murphy was at her bedside. She was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium.
At the inquest into her death, it was revealed that she had been drinking upwards of half a bottle of brandy a day for ten years, and that she had, in the words of her lawyer Mario Uziell-Hamilton, become a victim of her own success, and dreaded the thought of being typecast as Mildred Roper.
