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Wendy Richard

Wendy Richard

Known For Acting
Birthday Jul 20, 1943
Died Feb 26, 2009 (65)
Birthplace Middlesbrough, Cleveland, England, UK
Popularity 0.3 (history)
Updated Aug 10, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

Wendy Richard MBE (née Emerton, 20 July 1943 - 26 February 2009) was an English actress, known for her role as Pauline Fowler on the BBC soap opera EastEnders, a role she played for nearly 22 years, from 1985 to 2006. She also portrayed Miss Shirley Brahms in Are You Being Served? (1972–1985), as we ... ll as its spin-off series Grace & Favour (1992–1993).

Known For

Filmography

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

Doctor Who: Dimensions in Time

1993

as Pauline Fowler

Are You Being Served? The Movie

Are You Being Served? The Movie

1977

as Miss Shirley Brahms

Carry On Girls

Carry On Girls

1973

as Ida Downs

Bless This House

Bless This House

1972

as Carol

Carry On Matron

Carry On Matron

1972

as Miss Willing

Gumshoe

Gumshoe

1971

as Anne Scott

On the Buses

On the Buses

1971

as Housewife

No Blade of Grass

No Blade of Grass

1970

as Clara Pirrie

Doctor in Clover

Doctor in Clover

1966

as Nurse with False Eyelashes (Uncredited)

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

EastEnders

as Pauline

Episodes: 4511

First Aired: Feb 19, 1985

EastEnders

as Pauline Fowler

Episodes: 193

First Aired: Feb 19, 1985

Are You Being Served?

as Miss Brahms

Episodes: 69

First Aired: Sep 08, 1972

Grace & Favour

as Miss Brahms

Episodes: 12

First Aired: Jan 10, 1992

Both Ends Meet

as Maudie

Episodes: 7

First Aired: Feb 19, 1972

Dixon of Dock Green

as Jean Davis

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 09, 1955

Dixon of Dock Green

as Barbara Walker

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jul 09, 1955

Turn Out the Lights

as Veronica Woods

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 02, 1967

The Likely Lads

as Lynn

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 16, 1964

Please Sir!

as Rita

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Nov 08, 1968

Up Pompeii!

as Soppia

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Mar 30, 1970

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Mrs Crump

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Dec 12, 2004

Hogg's Back

Episodes: 19

First Aired: Sep 08, 1975

Not On Your Nellie

Episodes: 17

First Aired: Mar 03, 1974

What Are You Like?

Episodes: 4

First Aired: Aug 25, 2008

Big Brother's Little Brother

as Self

Episodes: 4

First Aired: May 29, 2001

You Bet!

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Feb 20, 1988

No Hiding Place

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Sep 16, 1959

Whose House?

Episodes: 3

First Aired: Mar 15, 1999

Six

Episodes: 2

First Aired: Dec 12, 1964

This Morning

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 03, 1988

On the Buses

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 28, 1969

Surprise, Surprise

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 06, 1984

Would I Lie to You?

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jun 16, 2007

Take It or Leave It

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 23, 2006

The Wednesday Play

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 30, 1964

Benidorm

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Feb 01, 2007

The Heaven and Earth Show

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 06, 1998

Wogan

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: May 04, 1982

All Over The Shop

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 21, 2008

It's Only TV But I Like It

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jun 03, 1999

All Star Mr & Mrs

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Apr 12, 2008

Blankety Blank

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 18, 1979

A Question of Sport

as Herself

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Jan 05, 1970

Terry Wogan's Friday Night

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Oct 09, 1992

Going Live!

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 26, 1987

Loose Women

as Self

Episodes: 1

First Aired: Sep 06, 1999

Up Pompeii!

Episodes: 0

First Aired: Mar 30, 1970

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