Dame Penelope Keith obituary

Hugely popular actor hailed for playing Margo in the BBC’s popular comedy series The Good Life and her many distinguished stage rolesBetween 1975 and 1981, the actor Penelope Keith, who has died aged 86, secured a position of unassailable popularity in two of the biggest television sitcoms since the second world war.In The Good Life, by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey, she was the overbearing suburban neighbour Margo Leadbetter; in To the Manor Born, by Peter Spence, she was the displaced semi-aristocratic, semi-impoverished widow Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, compelled to yield her estate to an arriviste wholesale grocer and live in the coach house. Continue reading...