Any boy who grew up in the Seventies will recall with a shudder watching Yootha Joyce's predatory Mildred Roper in the saucy sitcom Man About The House. The terrifying teeth, the bright orange ...

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, the actor, who has died aged 92, achieved his greatest success in the ITV sitcom Man About the House (1973-76) ...

Some of the Theatre Workshop actors in 1959, including Yootha Joyce, left, Murphy ... class roots and trying to corrupt Tristram, the young son of their snobbish next-door neighbours, the ...