Actor and comedian who invested her many stage and screen roles with incomparable zest and cheekThere have been few genuine clowns in theatre and television as good as Denise Coffey, who has died aged 85. She was a key TV presence in British comedy over its most redefining postwar period, and to see her on stage, always puckish and delightful, was to invest in two or three hours of an invaluable spiritual tonic. She …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PM on March 29, 2022