Actress Pauline Yates has died, aged 85.
The British star was best known for her starring role in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin from 1976 to 1979, as the title character's wife Elizabeth Perrin opposite Leonard Rossiter.
She also played the wife of comic-strip artist Dudley Rush (Robert Gillespie) in Keep It In the Family, and starred in Bachelor Father.
Yates's family have said that she "died peacefully in her sleep" yesterday (January 21) in Denville Hall nursing home in Northwood, Middlesex.
During a career that spanned six decades, Yates became a regular performer in 1960s TV series, including Armchair Theatre, Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Gideon's Way, Nightingale's Boys, The Human Jungle and The Ronnie Barker Playhouse.
She returned as Elizabeth Perrin for The Legacy of Reginald Perrin in 1996, and continued to perform on stage. Her most recent roles were in Rose and Maloney and Doctors in the early 2000s.
Yates was married to actor Donald Churchill from 1960 until his death in 1991. She is survived by their daughters Jemma and Polly.
In a statement, the actress's family said: "Her best role, and the one she considered most important, was as a dedicated mother to her two daughters, Jemma and Polly, and loving grandmother to Marlon, Dylan and Adelaide."
She was a TV regular long before she did Reggie Perrin.
