Beryl Cooke was a British

United Kingdom

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 actress. Her career spanned six decades; she is most familiar to British audiences as Aunt Lucy in the sitcom Happy Ever After and Mrs. Vance in the BBC drama Tenko

Tenko (TV series)

Tenko is a television drama, co-produced by the BBC and the ABC. A total of thirty episodes were produced between 1981 and 1984 for women, followed by a one-off special , Tenko Reunion, in 1985 - also for women in mind.The series dealt with the experiences of British, Australian and Dutch women...

.

Cooke made an appearance in British comedy

Comedy

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 Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses

Only Fools and Horses is a British sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003...

, in the episode "The Second Time Around (Only Fools and Horses)

The Second Time Around (Only Fools and Horses)

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", as a woman Del Boy

Del Boy

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 (David Jason

David Jason

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) and Rodney

Rodney

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 (Nicholas Lyndhurst

Nicholas Lyndhurst

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) believe to be Aunt Rose, but it later emerges that Aunt Rose moved many years ago, and the Trotters live under the pretence of being the adopted children of Joannie Hollins and her Jamican boyfriend.

Selected filmography

• Conflict of Wings (1954)
• Knave of Hearts
  Knave of Hearts (film)
  Knave of Hearts is a 1954 film about the adventures of a French philanderer in Paris and London. In France, it was released as Monsieur Ripois . In the United States, it was originally released as Lovers, Happy Lovers!, then later re-released as Lover Boy...
  
  (1954)
• The Blood Beast Terror
  The Blood Beast Terror
  The Blood Beast Terror is a 1968 British horror film released by Tigon. It was known in the United States under the title The Vampire-Beast Craves Blood.-Story:A series of grisly murders is occurring in the English countryside...
  
  (1968)
• She'll Follow You Anywhere
  She'll Follow You Anywhere
  She'll Follow You Anywhere is a 1971 British comedy film directed by David C. Rea and starring Kenneth Cope, Keith Barron and Richard Vernon. Two chemists working in a lab of a big corporation accidentally stumble across a love potion while working to create a new aftershave. The potion makes a man...
  
  (1971)
• Only Fools and Horses
  Only Fools and Horses
  Only Fools and Horses is a British sitcom, created and written by John Sullivan. Seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom between 1981 and 1991, with sporadic Christmas specials until 2003...
  
  (1981)

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