Her religious upbringing led her never to drink alcohol or smoke.The actress Kathy Staff turned Nora Batty into a television icon. Are you sure you want to delete this comment?Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Nora's pursuit by Compo was a staple of most episodes. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. She also played the boarding-house maid Mabel in the television film adaptation of Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables (1983). Adam Coulson / Oliver / Joiner(3 episodes, 1967-1969)Dennis Breene(3 episodes, 1978)Reg Aveyard / Arnold Birtwistle(2 episodes, 1964-1970)Harry Lee / Fletcher / Prior / Sammy Rogers / Rogers(5 episodes, 1966-1971)Barney Bannister(1 episode, 1965)Cedric Butterworth(6 episodes, 1959)Mr. Blenkinsop(1 episode, 1979)Jacko Pendlebury(1 episode, 1968)Wally Batty(45 episodes, 1975-1987)Stanley Proctor(1 episode, 1975)Fred Jackson(6 episodes, 1961-1964)Mr. Small / Mr. Long(2 episodes, 1981-1984)Stan Hardman(45 episodes, 1968-1973)Sam / Messenger / Mr. Forshaw / Old man(4 episodes, 1969-1972)Autograph hunter(1 episode, 1981)Kenneth Hardwick(1 episode, 1976)Yorkshire Napoleon(1 episode, 1968)Jimma Bryan / Charlie Collins / Ron Mather / Reg / Albert Pringle / Willie Tylson / Ted Flack / Nilsson(11 episodes, 1963-1973)Window Cleaner(1 episode, 1966)Old man in the cafe / Anton(2 episodes, 1978)Marko, messenger(2 episodes, 1971-1976)Joe Farrell(5 episodes, 1975-2013) However, the character quickly acquired cult status. Having played customers in different Coronation Street shops over the years, she became a semi-regular in the serial as Vera Hopkins (1973, 1974-75), a community centre committee member who then ran the cornershop with her family, renting it from Gordon Clegg. Bob: Yes! Joe Gladwin, Actor: Last of the Summer Wine.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today.The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. Joe Gladwin. But Nora Batty maintained her battleaxe status, even though the actress – a devout Christian – was keen to make the character slightly more mellow.During the first decade of Summer Wine, Staff was able to combine the role of Nora with others in ITV's three most popular soap operas. Joe Gladwin full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films. The actress Kathy Staff turned Nora Batty into a television icon. The initial acerbic humour was gradually tempered to provide a more gentle and affectionate situation and there was increasing slapstick and larger-than-life characterisation. She had the regular role of Lorna Everitt, wife of the scruffy Harry (played by another Coronation Street star, Roy Barraclough), in a saga revolving around the residents of flats in a Yorkshire coastal town.Staff then landed her own starring role in a sitcom, playing the recently widowed Molly Bickerstaff who moves from Oldham to live with her divorced daughter and granddaughter in London, in No Frills (1988), but it ran for only one series.Kathy Staff was born Minnie Higginbottom in Dukinfield, Cheshire, in 1928, the daughter of a clothing company manager who was also a lay reader at a mission church.

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