Years later, Reid fondly recalled how Baillie would "tell us the most wonderful things...you can imagine nine-year-old girls goggle-eyed at six princes serenading her in Hawaii!

She reprised her Tony Award-winning performance of a lesbian soap opera star in The Killing of Sister George for the 1968 screen version and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Actress in a Drama.

Between 1981 and 1983, Reid co-presented the Children's TV programme Get up and Go for Yorkshire Television, her co-presenter "Mooncat" being a green, talking, puppet cat.

[8][9][10][11] She bequeathed the property to a friend, Paul Strike, an actor later regularly featured (in a voice-only role) in the BBC TV series, Casualty and who, as of 2021, still owned it.

[12] In 1987, Beryl Reid and Honeypot Cottage featured in the comedy panel game show, Through the Keyhole, presented by David Frost and Loyd Grossman.

[13] Reid died at the age of 77 from severe osteoarthritis and kidney failure[1] (according to some obituaries, she had developed pneumonia)[14] at a hospital in Wexham, Buckinghamshire[1] on 13 October 1996, after complications following knee replacement surgery for arthritis.