Dad's Army's Mrs Fox dies at 95

RIP Pamela Cundell

Pamela Cundell, who played Mrs Fox in Dad’s Army, has died at the age of 95.

Her passing means that the only cast members still alive are Ian Lavender who played Private Pike, and Frank Williams who played the vicar.

Mrs Fox, was one of the ‘ladies’ who Clive Dunn’s Corporal Jones used to woo with an extra sausage from his butcher’s shop. In the finale, in 1977, the pair tied the knot - it was her 13th appearance on the show.

Cundell also played the character in the Dad’s Army stage show in the West End in the 1970s, but was replaced by Mollie Sugden in the radio version.

She apparently landed the role when David Croft, who created Dad’s Army with Jimmy Perry, spotted her making a cheeky wink on a live TV show in which she played a fortune teller.

In 2013, she reminisced about her time on Dad’s Army as Bill Pertwee was being laid to rest.

She said: ‘It was a lot of bumbling old men who get it right in the end. These kids see their grandfathers I suppose. There were a few naughty bits. My favourite line was “Have you got a sausage?”. Everybody shrieks at that. We had a lot of fun.

‘It was popular because people remember the Home Guard and it was a lot of silly old fools trying to do the right thing. It still works. It is on every Saturday. Dad’s Army will never date, because it has already dated.’

‘Young people still love Dad’s Army. It is wonderful. There is nothing like that, that the whole family can watch together.’

Cundell had been in showbusiness since he the age of 14, when she performed in chorus lines. And she is said to have been a a descendant of Henry Condell, one of the managers of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, the playing company of William Shakespeare.

Her comedy credits included episodes of the TV sitcom Bootsie and Snudge alongside her husband, Bill Fraser, and stooges to Benny Hill, Frankie Howerd and Harry Worth.

She also appeared in Doctor in the House, Paul Merton in Galton and Simpson's... and Goodnight Sweetheart as well as having small roles in film versions of On the Buses, Love Thy Neighbour and Run for Your Wife

She died on Saturday and is is survived by a daughter and two grandchildren.

Here she is in the last episode of Dad’s Army