He’d been looking through records to see if Hylda had ever appeared there and had discovered she’d been booked but had cancelled – because she’d broken her arm.”Jean Fergusson also appeared as part of a rotating pool of actresses in the touring anthology-style play Seven Deadly Sins Four Deadly Sinners, devised by the producer Marc Sinden and the “Carry On” writer Norman Hudis.Her third stint, in 2011, was more substantial, ranging across 24 episodes. “There’s no room for thermals! In 2014 she auctioned off the famous pushbike that appeared with her in the show. “When I got – shall we say – a little bit older, it wasn’t quite the same getting all dressed up in the morning in a pair of little mini shorts and a very low-cut blouse. She was born on December 30 1944 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, to Scottish parents; her father was a civil engineer. Jean Fergusson as Marina, and right, as Dorothy Hoyle in Coronation Street. This inspired her to write her own one-woman show, She Knows You Know!, a poignant and often tragic story about a performer disliked by many with whom she worked, the title taken from one of Baker’s catchphrases.She spent three years researching it and, after performing the play at regional theatres (1993-97), had an eight-week run in the West End, at the Adelphi theatre (1997). Sir Charles Fergusson, 5th Baron... son.
Dorothy, along with her husband Alan and Chesney Brown, was tied up by Stape in the cellar of her house.Fergusson was seen in one-off parts in programmes such as Albion Market (1985) and Peak Practice (2001), and the mini-series A Woman of Substance (1985). Helen Dalrymple. The production was nominated for a Laurence Olivier theatre award.In 1997, Fergusson adapted the show for BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Playhouse slot and had her biography of Baker published under the same title.Paul Jenkinson, her partner of 30 years, died in 2011. Historical records matching Jean Fergusson Jean Dalrymple in Scotland, Marriages, 1561-1910 ... husband. Jean Fergusson as Marina and Robert Fyfe as Howard Sibshaw in Last of the Summer Wine.
“I did a reading and the director said, ‘You’re in – you start today.’”For the Bournemouth run of the Roy Clarke creation, Robert Fyfe and Howard was infatuated with Marina and she encouraged him to get away from Pearl, but their antics never went beyond a kiss. A CONVICTED killer blew kisses at women and barked “woof woof” just moments before he was executed for the murder of a prison officer. The family moved around between Yorkshire and Dumfriesshire until Jean was 12, when they settled in Bridgend, Glamorgan.While studying for A-levels at Bridgend girls’ grammar school, she joined an amateur dramatics company, the Bridgend Castle Players, then trained as an actor at Cardiff Castle College of Music and Drama (now the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama), graduating in 1965.Fergusson made her television debut with a short stint in Crossroads during 1974, playing Caroline Herbert, who was dumped by Roy Mollison in favour of Sheila Harvey, and appeared as a colonel’s wife in an episode of All Creatures Great and Small four years later.During her time in Last of the Summer Wine, Fergusson took two roles in She had a third, longer run in the soap as Dorothy Hoyle (2010-11), who became embroiled in a plot by her unstable daughter Charlotte and John Stape – who had previously been jailed for kidnapping Rosie Webster – to get Stape back into teaching by stealing someone else’s identity. Jean Fergusson (30 December 1944 – 14 November 2019) was a British television and theatre actress, who was best known for playing the part of Marina on the British situation comedy Last of the Summer Wine from 1985 until it was cancelled in 2010, and her several guest roles in the soap Coronation Street.