Una Stubbs

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Una Stubbs (born 1 May 1937) is an English actor, television presenter, and former dancer who has appeared on British television and in theatre, but not so often in films.

Rita Rawlins appeared in the sitcoms Till Death Us Do Parts and In Sickness and In Health, and she is best known for her role in the sitcoms Till Death Us Do Part and In Sickness and in Health. She is also known for her role as Miss Bat in the series The Worst Witch, and she appeared in the BAFTA award-winning television series Sherlock Holmes as Sherlock Holmes' landlady Mrs Hudson.

Personal life

Stubbs was born in 1937 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, the daughter of Angela K. Rawlinson and Clarence Reginald Stubbs. She grew up in Hinckley, Leicestershire, and was taken by her mother to La Roche dancing school in Slough. She was married to actor Peter Gilmore from 1958 to 1969: they adopted their son, Jason. She married actor Nicky Henson after their divorce in 1969. They divorced in 1975, but they remained close friends. She and Henson had two children: composer Christian Henson (born 25 December 1971), and musician-composer Joe Henson (born 18 September 1973).

Stubbs drew vignettes of characters around London for many years, staging exhibitions of these near her Mayfair home. On several occasions, paintings by Stubbs were on view at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition, most recently in 2020.

Stubbs had known her Sherlock co-star Benedict Cumberbatch since he was four years old, as she had worked with his mother, Wanda Ventham. On July 24, 2013, Stubbs was the subject of an episode of BBC series Who Do You Think You Are? It featured several of her ancestors, including her great-grandfather Sir Ebenezer Howard, who was the originator of the garden city movement, and was the driving force behind the creation and construction of the first garden cities, Letchworth Garden City and Welwyn Garden City, situated in Hertfordshire.

Stubbs died at her Edinburgh home on August 2021, at the age of 84, after several months of ill health.

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Career

"Pardon My French," a Folies Bergère-style musical revue, appeared at the Prince of Wales Theatre with Frankie Howerd and pianist Winifred Atwell as a 16-year-old. She appeared on television first as one of the Dougie Squires Dancers on British television show Cool for Cats in 1956. She also performed as a dancer at the London Palladium. She appeared in cabaret, clubs, and revues in London, and was one of Lionel Blair's dance company.

Stubbs was the "cover girl" of Dairy Box chocolates made by Rowntree's during 1958–59. When describing a trip to Rowntree's factory in York (where, unknown to her, her grandfather had worked), she referred to herself as the "Rowntree Chocolate Girl."

She appeared in 1963 on the cast of Don't Say a Word (ITV), as the forerunner of Give Us a Clue. Summer Holiday (1963), Cliff Richard's first screen role. Wonderful Life (1964), Richard's next film, she appeared in (1964). Rita, the married daughter of Alf Garnett in the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part (1966–1975), made her breakthrough in television comedy shortly after. She appeared alongside Warren Mitchell in a series of television commercials for Findus frozen products in 1968, as a direct spinoff from the sitcom.

Rita appeared in the short-lived sitcom Till Death (1981), as well as in the short-lived sitcom Till Death (1981). Rita appeared in a few episodes of the BBC sitcom In Sickness and in Health (1985–1992). Stubbs and Cliff Richard teamed up again in 1970 to appear on his BBC1 TV show Every week, It's Cliff Richard! Dandy Nichols of Till Death Us Do Part took her place as she did not appear in the next series because it was broadcast shortly after she had a baby.

In 1979, Stubbs appeared in the Fawlty Towers episode "The Anniversary" on Fawlty Towers. She appeared on Aunt Sally in the ITV children's series Worzel Gummidge opposite Jon Pertwee and Barbara Windsor, and spent many years as a team captain in the weekly game show Give Us a Clue in the 1980s, reuniting her with Lionel Blair, the other team captain.

She appeared on the series Midsomer Murders, Heartbeat, Casualty, Keeping Up Appearances, Born and Bred, and The Worst Witch. Stubbs appeared in Victoria Wood's We'd Quite Like to Apologise, The Catherine Tate Exhibition, Agatha Christie's Marple, EastEnders, Benidorm, and, as Mrs. Hudson, from 2010. In a series called Call the Midwife in 2015, she appeared in an episode.

In No.l Coward's Star Quality with Penelope Keith in 2001 and Friedrich Schiller's Don Carlos with Derek Jacobi in 2005, Stubbs appeared on the West End of No. 1 in No.l Coward's Star Quality with Penelope Keith in 2001 and George Schiller's Don Carlos with Derek Jacobi in 2005. La Cage Aux Folles, Pygmalion at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and Old Vic with The Family Reunion at the Donmar Warehouse were among her other theatre appearances. In 2012, she appeared in the original cast of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the National Theatre.

Richard Bacon co-presented The Big Painting Challenge on BBC One in 2015.

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