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Joan tragically passed away in September aged 74 eight months after she was diagnosed with lung cancer. He noted: Its a sentimental time of year. Ive kept every decoration our daughter made.

The best directors always wanted Rosalind Knight in their casts. Photograph: Simon Annand/PA In a career stretching over seven decades, the distinctive, cut-glass character actor Rosalind Knight, who has died aged 87, renewed her TV profile with younger audiences in two quirkily original comedy sitcoms: Jonathan Harvey’s Gimme Gimme Gimme (1999-2001) and Robert Popper’s Friday Night Dinner (in the second series, 2012). She dressed down and...

Carry On films to Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner, has died aged 87. Alongside her many and various screen credits were stage appearances including playing Celia opposite Vanessa Redgrave in the 1961 RSC production of As You Like It, directed by her husband Michael Elliott, and new work by Steven Pimlott, Richard Jones and Phelim McDermott. Her daughters, theatre director Marianne Elliott and actress Susannah Elliott, said: "Our mother had the most astute, vibrant personality and made pe...