Yootha Joyce died at the age of just 53 after struggling with long-term alcoholism - and her co-star Brian Murphy was at her ...

He played George Roper, the henpecked, unkempt and terminally idle husband of his over-sexed, social-climbing spouse Mildred, played by Yootha Joyce. The warring pair, subletting landlords ...

Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce in London, 1976 Credit: PA George and Mildred would never have worked a fraction as well as it did, had it not been for the interplay between Murphy and Joyce.

Brian Murphy as George with Yootha Joyce as Mildred: ‘The producers of Man About the House didn’t realise we already knew each other, and they were taken aback by the chemistry between us when ...