Pamela Manson

Pamela Manson (30 September 1928 – 19 March 1988) was a British actress who in her 30–year career on film, television and stage is best known for playing comedy roles.

Breaking into television, she made appearances as the Canteen Server/Bertha in four episodes of Hancock's Half Hour (1957–1959), Rita/Irma Stevens in Dixon of Dock Green (1961–1962), Mrs. Phillips in Z-Cars (1965), René Tanner in Emergency – Ward 10 (1966), Maggie in All Gas and Gaiters (1967), Mrs. Lloyd in Champion House (1967–1968), Mrs. Levy in Alexander the Greatest (1971), the Large Brim with Fruit in Are You Being Served?

(1973), Sykes (1973), the NAAFI Girl in the We Know Our Onions episode of Dad's Army (1973), Sheila in Second Time Around (1974), Sally in The Good Life (1975), Sylvia in Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976), Barmaid in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976), Jackanory (1977), Molly in The Professionals (1978), and Sybil Nunn in Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself (1981–1982), Landlady in The Chinese Detective (1982), Mavis in Hi-de-Hi!

(1984), Mrs. Ivan in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986) and the Fairy Godmother in The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1987), among other roles.

[4] Manson was also a committee member of the National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts (NCROPA) and had been the Chairman of the Redcliffe Ward Chelsea Labour Party.