# EastEnders & Are You Being Served actress, Wendy Richard, dead at 65 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 26, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastenders-are-you-being-served-actress-wendy-richard-dead-at-65/487547 "2009-02-26T19:29:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastenders-are-you-being-served-actress-wendy-richard-dead-at-65/487547/1 "2009-02-26T19:29:25Z")
[RIP.](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aiLdpt0zpg2E&refer=muse) ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastenders-are-you-being-served-actress-wendy-richard-dead-at-65/487547/2 "2009-02-26T19:43:57Z")
Goodbye ms Brahms, thanks for all the laughs. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastenders-are-you-being-served-actress-wendy-richard-dead-at-65/487547/3 "2009-02-26T20:37:54Z")
MISS BRAHMS, ARE YOU FREE? Farewell, Ms. Richard. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastenders-are-you-being-served-actress-wendy-richard-dead-at-65/487547/4 "2009-02-26T22:09:06Z")
[Miss Brahms, smokin’.](http://pages.prodigy.net/glc/wrhp/image/wmov1.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastenders-are-you-being-served-actress-wendy-richard-dead-at-65/487547/5 "2009-02-26T23:35:03Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [Miss Brahms, smokin’.](http://pages.prodigy.net/glc/wrhp/image/wmov1.jpg) You got-damn right. You’ll always be that department store hottie to me, Wendy. Godspeed. ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastenders-are-you-being-served-actress-wendy-richard-dead-at-65/487547/6 "2009-02-27T00:25:44Z")
She was still that young girl to me, even though I knew _Are You Being Served?_ was filmed a long time ago. Sad news. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastenders-are-you-being-served-actress-wendy-richard-dead-at-65/487547/7 "2009-02-27T17:43:16Z")
I have just found this clip of her dating from 1963:- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEcyTtvrcI&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEcyTtvrcI&feature=related) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastenders-are-you-being-served-actress-wendy-richard-dead-at-65/487547/8 "2009-02-27T19:28:54Z")
Who’d have thought Mrs. Slocombe would outlive Miss Brahms. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastenders-are-you-being-served-actress-wendy-richard-dead-at-65/487547/9 "2009-02-27T19:40:00Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Who’d have thought Mrs. Slocombe would outlive Miss Brahms. I was all ready to contradict you because I could have SWORN I read about her dying recently, but on a wiki search I see that Mollie Sugden IS still alive, at 86! I’m sure her pussy’s dead though… ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastenders-are-you-being-served-actress-wendy-richard-dead-at-65/487547/10 "2009-02-27T19:52:13Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > I was all ready to contradict you because I could have SWORN I read about her dying recently, but on a wiki search I see that Mollie Sugden IS still alive, at 86! Not to mention quoted in the article linked in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastenders-are-you-being-served-actress-wendy-richard-dead-at-65/487547/11 "2009-02-27T19:54:33Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > Not to mention quoted in the article linked in the OP. People read links? 😉