Actor who made her name with Joan Littlewood and went on to play the nosy neighbour in the 1980s sitcom Fresh FieldsNot many performers have appeared in The Archers on radio, starred opposite Ginger Rogers in a Drury Lane musical, sung in an award-winning children's choir at the Llangollen Eisteddfod and played Hugh Grant's mum. But Ann Beach, a resourceful and lovable character actor, who has died aged 78, did all o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM on March 17, 2017