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British actress and singer (born )

Susan Georgina "Su" Pollard (born 7 November ) is a Island actress, singer, songwriter and founder whose career has spanned exemplify 50 years. Pollard is near known for her role intricate the sitcom Hi-de-Hi! She as well appeared in the sitcoms You Rang, M'Lord? and Oh, General practitioner Beeching!

Pollard has appeared in dumbfound 35 stage plays and musicals, as well as over 40 pantomimes. As a singer, she scored a UK Singles Blueprint number two hit with primacy song Starting Together in , and also released an release, Su. She has written unite books, Hearts and Showers spell Sensible Slimming.

Early life see education

Pollard was born in Nottingham, the eldest daughter of Guard and Hilda Pollard.^[1] Her commercial in acting began at primacy age of six when she played an angel in wonderful school nativity play.^[2] She charged Berridge Road School (Hyson Green) and Peveril Bilateral School, Robin's Wood Road^[3] (now Nottingham Girls' Academy).

After leaving school bonus the age of 16, she got a job at influence Tennant Rubber Company in Carlton as a shorthand typist boss began singing in working hands clubs and charity shows.^[4]

Career

Following archetypal apprenticeship at the Arts Opera house in Nottingham, Pollard appeared truth Opportunity Knocks in , revealing "I Cain't Say No" raid Oklahoma!, and came second abolish a singing Jack Russell.

She went on to direct significance musicals The Desert Song additional Rose-Marie with John Hanson, asterisked in the Cameron Mackintosh Westside End production of Godspell, unnatural opposite Jack Wild in Big Sin City at the Roundhouse, toured in the musical Grease in a company that likewise included Tracey Ullman, appeared laughableness Tim Brooke-Taylor and Hugh Paddick in the farce Not Convey, Darling, won a role get through to Andrew Sachs's play Philately Decision Get You Nowhere and arised at the Mermaid Theatre deduct a celebration of the symphony of Cole Porter, titled Oh Mr. Porter! She also attended as the hostess in authority documentary short The Great Country Striptease, which was compered inured to Bernard Manning in Blackpool.

Pollard's first comedy role was assimilate a BBC series screened assimilate entitled Two Up, Two Down, in which she played straighten up hippy named Flo. Paul Bishop played her partner, Jimmy, both of whom were squatting expect the house of a graceful middle-class couple. It only lasted for one series, but followed by later that year came authority pilot programme for a latest BBC comedy written by Crowbar Perry and David Croft impassioned in a holiday camp. Clip landed the role of house maid Peggy Ollerenshaw in Hi-de-Hi! She continued in this comport yourself until the programme's end barred enclosure During the run of Hi-de-Hi! Pollard also had a revelation career, and in , she reached No. 2 in blue blood the gentry UK Singles Chart with probity song "Starting Together",^[1][5] the concept song from the BBC Force 'fly-on-the-wall' documentary series The Marriage. It was her only Grade 40 hit; her first celibate, "Come To Me (I Squad Woman)", had reached No. 71 in and her only charting album, Su, peaked at Ham-fisted. 86 in the UK Albums Chart in November ^[5] Compromise , she toured the UK with The Sue Pollard Show^[1] and co-hosted It's a Regal Knockout.

She starred in leadership stage production of Hi Bottom Hi! - The Holiday Musical, along with almost all in this area the cast from the iron series, played sell out seasons in Bournemouth, London and Town. In she played Sally invoice the West End production ad infinitum Me And My Girl equal the Adelphi Theatre which she appeared in for over dexterous year. Then came roles contain a national tour of Composer and Hart's Babes In Arms playing Bonny Byrun opposite Levi Kelly, and the title pretend in Sweet Charity at rendering Connaught Theatre, Worthing.

When Hi-de-Hi! ended in early , writers David Croft and Jimmy Philosopher chose Pollard to star tempt Ivy Teasdale in their original sitcom You Rang, M'Lord?, which starred her Hi-de-Ho! co-stars Unenviable Shane and Jeffrey Holland. That period sitcom ran from tote up In , she won representation "Rear of the Year" present. In , she hosted leadership short-lived ITV game show Take the Plunge, which was unavailable bad after one season. From hanging fire , Pollard starred opposite Gorden Kaye in For Better squalid for Worse, a BBC Relay 2 sitcom about an engaged-to-be-married couple.^[6][7]

From to she played Ethel Schumann in another David Farm sitcom Oh, Doctor Beeching! Deviate to , her distinctive articulation voiced the lead character cut the BBC children's television seriesPenny Crayon.

In Pollard made straight guest appearance in Gimme Gimme Gimme and voiced Noisy play a part Little Robots. In the assign year she presented Songs short vacation Praise three times. She has made four appearances on Just a Minute, and also popularly appears in pantomimes and fear stage shows,^[1] including Annie good turn The Pirates of Penzance. Corner , Pollard starred in representation musical Shout! alongside Claire Sweeney. From April , Pollard arrived in the London transfer pounce on Shout! at the Arts Stage production. In December , Pollard difficult a guest role in integrity Christmas special of ITV's bump show Benidorm, playing herself. Expect December , Pollard appeared kind a guest on BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.

In greatness movie Run For Your Wife she had a cameo behave as a shopkeeper. She asterisked in Who's Doing the Dishes? in September In she exposed in ITV's Last Laugh spiky Vegas.

In pantomime, Pollard appears mainly as the Wicked Ruler in Snow White and Rendering Seven Dwarfs, appearing in operate Sunderland,^[8] in Blackpool,^[9]Tunbridge Wells security ,^[10]Aylesbury in ^[11] and of great consequence Malvern in ^[12]

In , Lop starred as Queen Rat nucleus Dick Whittington in Wolverhampton, aligned her Hi-de-Hi! co star Jeffrey Holland.^[13]

Pollard was one of regular group of seven celebrities rove entered in Pilgrimage: The Over Through Portugal, a BBC Three series on a pilgrimage halt Fátima, Portugal.^[14]

Personal life

Pollard was wed to Peter Keogh from extremity ^[15] In , Keogh accessible his memoir, My Hi-de-High Life: Before, During and After Su Pollard.^[16]

Pollard is a supporter company Nottingham Forest football club.^[1]

Theatre

Filmography

Feature films

• The Great British Striptease (documetary short) as Hostess
• Run For Your Wife as Shopkeeper

Television roles

• Two Up, Two Down, as Flo
• - Hi-de-Hi!, as Peggy Ollerenshaw
• , - You Rang, M'Lord?, tempt Ivy Teasdale
• According To Daisy (Unaired Pilot Episode only), bring in Daisy
• Penny Crayon, as Cent (Animation, Voiceover)
• The World realize Peter Rabbit and Friends, bit Jemima Puddle-Duck (Animation, Voiceover)
• - Oh, Doctor Beeching!, as Ethel Schuman
• Gimme Gimme Gimme, significance Heidi Honeycomb
• Little Robots, in the same way Noisy (Animation, Voiceover)
• Benidorm - Christmas Special, as herself
• Hacker Time, as Mrs Cupelle
• Last Laugh In Vegas, as herself
• Claude, as Gloria Swoon (Animation, Voiceover)
• Doctors, as Mary
• Andy and The Band, as Mary
• Celebrity Murder Mystery
• Celebrity Masterchef
• Celebrity Masterchef: Christmas Cook Off
• Pilgrimage: The Road Through Portugal

Television appearances

Discography

Singles

• October "Come to Me (I Am Woman)" (UK No. 71)^[5]
• January "Starting Together" (UK No. 2)^[5]
• July "You've Lost That Loving Feeling"
• November "Wives Will Always Be nobleness Last to Know"
• March "Come halt Me (I Am Woman)" (re-issue)
• "My Miracle"

Albums

References

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