Anthea Askey
Anthea Shirley Askey (2 March 1933 – 28 February 1999) was an English actress who was popular on television in the 1950s.Anthea Askey was born in Golders Green, London, to the comedian and actor Arthur Askey, and his wife Elizabeth May Swash (b. 1899, m. 1925, d. 1974). In many of her television roles she would star with him. Her early television appearances included Love and Kisses, where she played Rose Brown, whose father Bill was played by her father, The Love Match, Ramsbottom Rides Again, Before Your Very Eyes, Living It Up, The Dickie Henderson Half-Hour, Arthur's Treasured Volumes and a cameo appearance in Make Mine a Million in 1959.In 1993 she starred in an episode of The Darling Buds of May. Anthea Askey died in Worthing, Sussex, in 1999, aged 65.
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Birth date | March 02, 1933 |
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Birth name | Anthea Shirley Askey |
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Date of death | February 28, 1999 |
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