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Actress Mollie Sugden Dies
Actress Mollie Sugden has died at the age of 86, her agent has said.
She died at the Royal Surrey Hospital, Guildford, after a long illness.
Sugden was best known for playing Mrs Slocombe in long-running BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?, a role later reprised for Grace and Favour.
The actress also appeared in The Liver Birds.
Her twin sons, Robin and Simon Moore, were at her bedside, according to her agent Joan Reddin.
Ms Reddin began representing Sugden in the 1960s before she became famous with her role as Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served?.
She said: "She had had a long illness and various problems but it was very quick in the end. Her twin boys were with her and she faded away. She was a lovely, lovely person."
Sugden, who lived in Surrey, was married to fellow actor William Moore.
She never fully recovered from his death nine years ago, said Ms Reddin. "They were very much in love," she said. "She started to go down when he died."
Best known for her comedy roles often playing battleaxes, Sugden also appeared as the fearsome Mrs Hutchinson in The Liver Birds, but her career spanned a variety of roles.
Born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, in July 1922, Sugden trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Her early career was spent in repertory theatre, where in Swansea in 1956, she met Moore.
They married two years later, when she was 35 and he was 39. Their sons were born six years later.
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