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Last modified on Tue 12 Jan 2021 12.38 EST Although physically tiny at 4ft 10in tall, Barbara Windsor, who has died aged 83, was a giant of the British entertainment industry, conquering films, theatre and television in a career that spanned 60 years, 50 of them as a top star. After some notable stage work, Windsor first came to real prominence as a member of the Carry On team for nine hugely popular films starting in 1964 with Carry On Spying. In them she usually played a wide-eyed blonde with a friendly grin, sometimes knowingly sexy and sometimes naive or innocent, but invariably given at ...

Mike Brooke Barbara Windsor opening a community hub in the Hackney Road. - Credit: LBTH Barbara Windsor, the most famous and loved East Ender in real life and on screen, has died at the age of 83.  The “Queen of the East End”, who was awarded a Damehood for services to charity and entertainment and an honorary doctorate from the University of East London, played the landlady of The Vic pub in the BBC soap EastEnders for several years and starred in many Carry On films.  A close friend of The Krays, she had humble beginnings in Shoreditch and returned to the Queen Victoria seamen’s re...

Dame Barbara Windsor, actress of irrepressible good humour in Carry On films and EastEnders – obituary The reality of her life differed from the chirpy image she projected, but her acting gifts were spotted early on by Joan Littlewood 11 December 2020 • 9:28am The Queen visiting the set of the Queen Vic pub with Barbara Windsor (Peggy Mitchell) and Steve McFadden who played her son Phil, 2001 Credit: Anwar Hussein/Getty Dame Barbara Windsor, the actress who has died aged 83, became a national institution by passing off high bosoms and low comedy in the Carry On films, and after many vicis...