Diana King (actress)

Diana King (actress)
Diana King
Born Diana King
2 August 1918(1918-08-02)
Buckinghamshire, UK
Died 31 July 1986(1986-07-31) (aged 67)
Nettlebed, Oxfordshire
Years active 1939–1986

Diana King (2 August 1918 – 31 July 1986) was an English television actress who had a career on British television from 1939 to 1986. She was sometimes credited as Diane King, and was born in Buckinghamshire.

King's first television appearance was as a pupil of Tadworth House School in Little Ladyship in 1939. She continued to appear on television and in films throughout the 1940s and 1950s. In 1961, she appeared in The Avengers. During the 1960s and 1970s, she appeared in The Benny Hill Show, Crossroads, Dixon of Dock Green, Pride and Prejudice, You're Only Young Twice, and Z-Cars.

However, Diana King is perhaps best known for her many appearances in situation comedies from the 1960s onwards. She had roles in Dad's Army, Father, Dear Father, The Liver Birds, Fawlty Towers (in the episode "The Wedding Party"), George and Mildred, Bless This House, Rising Damp, Come Back Mrs Noah and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em. King also had semi-regular roles in Are You Being Served? as Mrs Peacock, in Terry and June replacing the late Joan Benham in the role of Melinda Spry, as Norah in Bachelor Father and as George's mother in Marriage Lines. She also acted in an English learning programme called Follow Me from 1978 to 1981 with Francis Matthews as moderator.

Her final television appearance was in Inside Story, which was shown in 1986, the year she died of cancer at the age of 67 in Nettlebed, Oxfordshire.

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