UK ball extra Mollie Sugden dies at 86

LONDON – British extra Mollie Sugden, best-known for her role as Mrs Slocombe in the television ball alternation "Are You Being Served?," has died at the age of 86.

Her abettor Joan Reddin told newspapers Sugden died on Wednesday afterwards a continued illness. "She was a lovely, admirable person. She was a abundant professional," Reddin said.

With her beard awful coiffed and apropos frequently to her "pussy," Sugden played the absolute Mrs Slocombe throughout the run of the BBC's innuendo-laden Are You Being Served? amid 1972 and 1985.

Re-runs of the appearance in the United States in the 1990s acquired her a new admirers overseas.

"She was abundant fun, a actual acceptable actress, actual versatile. She could ball austere being and comedy," said Frank Thornton, who played adverse Sugden in the alternation as the airless floorwalker Captain Peacock.

"It was a actual blessed appearance to assignment on -- you can't ball ball with bodies you dislike," he told BBC television.

Mark Freeland, arch of BBC comedy, said she was one of television's iconic funny women.

"Her daftly astronomic amethyst bathe and never-to-be-forgotten adage are the being of ball legend," he said.

Sugden had additionally begin success in the BBC TV ball alternation "The Liver Birds" and played an casual role as pub feudatory Nellie Harvey in the long-running ITV soap opera "Coronation Street."

(Reporting by Tim Castle; Editing by Steve Addison)