Una Stubbs
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Una Stubbs (born May 1, 1937 in Welwyn Garden City , Hertfordshire , United Kingdom , † August 2021 in Edinburgh ) was a British actress and dancer.
Life
Stubbs was born in 1937 to Clarence Reginald Stubbs and Angela Rawlinson in Welwyn Garden City , United Kingdom. She grew up in Hinckley . At the age of 14, she was sent to La Roche Dancing School in Slough by her mother .
She had her first major role in 1963 in the musical film Holiday for you and me alongside Cliff Richard . She had her breakthrough on British television in the mid-1960s with the sitcom Till Death Us Do Part , which is considered the model for the German television series Ein Herz und ein Seele . In it, Stubbs played the family daughter Rita, who was embodied in the German version by Hildegard Krekel . From 2010 she starred in the British crime series Sherlock at the side of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as the landlady Mrs. Hudson.
Private life
Stubbs had two siblings: a sister, Claire, two years older, and a brother, Paul, two years younger.
In 1958 she married the actor Peter Gilmore , with whom they adopted a son, Jason. In 1969 she divorced Gilmore and in the same year married the actor Nicky Henson, with whom she had two children: the two composers Christian (born December 25, 1971) and Joe Henson (born September 18, 1973). In 1975 she divorced Henson.
Una Stubbs died in Edinburgh in August 2021.
Filmography (selection)
Movie
- 1963: Holiday for you and me (Summer Holiday)
- 1963: West 11
- 1964: The Bargee
- 1964: Wonderful Life - Kiss me with music (Wonderful Life)
- 1967: Three Hats for Lisa
- 1967: Mr. 10 Percent (Mister Ten Per Cent)
- 1968: Till Death Us Do Part
- 1973: Penny Gold
- 1975: Bedtime with Rosie
- 2007: Angel - A Life Like a Dream (Angel)
- 2016: Golden Years
watch TV
- 1958: Rush Hour (2 episodes)
- 1960: The Strange World of Gurney Slade (miniseries, 2 episodes)
- 1962: Benny Hill (episode Portrait of a Bridegroom )
- 1965: Not Only ... But Also (2 episodes)
- 1966–1975: Till Death Us Do Part (52 episodes)
- 1971: Shirley's World (2 episodes)
- 1979: Fawlty Towers (Episode The Anniversary )
- 1979–1981: The Scarecrow ( Worzel Gummidge , 20 episodes)
- 1981: Till Death ... (3 episodes)
- 1985–1986: In Sickness and in Health (9 episodes)
- 1987–1989: Worzel Gummidge Down Under (11 episodes)
- 1989: Morris Minor's Marvelous Motors (3 episodes)
- 1995: Keeping Up Appearances ( Keeping Up Appearances , Episode The Pageant )
- 1998: Tricky Business (9 episodes)
- 1998–2000: A Lousy Witch ( The Worst Witch , 24 episodes)
- 1998, 2015: Inspector Barnaby ( Midsomer Murders , various roles, 2 episodes)
- 2000: Casualty (Episode Not Waving But Drowning )
- 2003: Born and Bred (Episode A Very Ormston Christmas )
- 2004: Von Trapped (TV movie)
- 2005–2006: The Catherine Tate Show (2 episodes)
- 2006: EastEnders (miniseries, 6 episodes)
- 2006: Agatha Christie's Marple (episode Calm Rough )
- 2007-2009: Mist: Sheepdog Tales (23 episodes)
- 2009: Benidorm (One episode)
- 2009: Ingenius (TV film)
- 2010-2017: Sherlock (14 episodes)
- 2013: Coming Up (Episode Sink or Swim )
- 2013: Starlings (4 episodes)
- 2013: The Tractate Middoth (TV movie)
- 2015: Call the Midwife - Call of Life ( Call the Midwife , episode Mistakes )
Web links
- Una Stubbs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Vicki Power: Una Stubbs: My family values. The Guardian , August 2, 2013, accessed February 1, 2017 .
- ^ BFI Screenonline: Stubbs, Una - Biography. BFI Screenonline, accessed February 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Sherlock and Summer Holiday actress Una Stubbs dies aged 84. In: radiotimes.com. August 12, 2021, accessed August 12, 2021 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stubbs, Una |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actress and dancer |
| BIRTH DATE | May 1, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Welwyn Garden City , Hertfordshire , United Kingdom |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 2021 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Edinburgh |