Penelope Keith
- 84 years old
- English
- Actor
Press clippings
Inside the £40m showbiz showdown worthy of its very own sitcom
How the fight for control of an illustrious actors' charity - the Actors' Benevolent Fund - became a star-studded drama for the ages. At the heart of the dispute is a clutch of long-standing trustees, including Penelope Keith, Siân Phillips, James Bolam and Brian Murphy, who are bitterly aggrieved at being "ousted" from the ABF's governing council last year.
Dominic Cavendish, The Telegraph, 27th June 2023Comfort classic: The Good Life
A show that gently sends up the English middle class is built on a sharp script and consummate acting.
Matthew Bell, Royal Television Society, 4th February 2021Fawlty Towers named comedians' favourite sitcom
A survey of comedians has revealed that Fawlty Towers is their favourite sitcom, and Alan Partridge meeting his superfan is their favourite scene. "Don't tell him Pike" was picked as the favourite one-liner.
British Comedy Guide, 4th January 2017Every Home Should Have One: DVD review
The humour is adolescent throughout. A movie that ought to have given the increasingly tired-looking Carry On series a run for its money is a curious period piece that captures the ad game well it has it has its brighter moments like the take-offs of Ken Russell, Benny Hill, a Swedish nudist picture and a hell-for-leather Buster Keaton-like fight sequence in the BBC props room. It was ad guru David Ogilvy who said that advertising was 'the best fun you can have with your clothes on'. Every Home Should Have One proves him wrong.
Ken Wilson, TV Bomb, 30th June 2016Penelope Keith's comic triumph on The Good Life
Who can forget Penelope Keith as Margo Leadbetter, wearing a tangerine kaftan, vigorously plumping the cushions of her three-piece suite on The Good Life?
Charlotte McDougall, The Guardian, 8th July 2015Keith and Crawford receive honours from Queen
Actors Penelope Keith and Michael Crawford have officially been given their honours at a ceremony at Windsor Castle.
BBC News, 7th March 2014Penelope Keith named a Dame in New Year Honours list
Penelope Keith has been made a Dame in the New Year's Honours list. Nicholas Parsons, Michael Crawford, Sandi Toksvig and Ruth Jones also receive titles.
British Comedy Guide, 31st December 2013How we made To The Manor Born
Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles, the stars of the classic BBC sitcom To The Manor Born recall Rolls-Royces, chilly location shoots - and an increasingly tubby beagle.
Anna Tims, The Guardian, 15th April 2013Friends and colleagues, including Kenneth Branagh and Penelope Keith, remember the much-loved actor. Briers passed away last month aged 79 after a 50-year career spanning Shakespeare, Chekhov, voices for children's TV and two classic TV sitcoms in The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles.
The Telegraph, 29th March 2013Penelope Keith remembers her co-star Richard Briers
"We were very close... He was kind, generous, a real gentleman and also someone to look up to as an actor"
David Brown, Radio Times, 2nd March 2013