Onslow on Keeping Up Appearances has died!

[hairyreb]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9435...ghes-dies.html







By Adam Lusher

7:36PM BST 28 Jul 2012

127 Comments





Hughes, who grew up in Liverpool, died on Friday night.


He joined Coronation Street in 1974 as Eddie Yeats, a character with a criminal past.


Geoffrey Hughes as Eddie Yeats in Coronation Street in 1977


In between further brushes with the law, Yeats went into partnership with Stan Ogden in his window cleaning business, and had a short-lived curtain-making venture with Hilda Ogden.


He also tried to sell shoddy goods to his neighbours on numerous occasions.



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Hughes ceased to be a Coronation Street regular in 1983, but made a brief final appearance as Yeats in 1987.

He first appeared on Keeping Up Appearances in 1990, playing Onslow, the lovable slob and brother-in-law of Hyacinth Bucket.

To the dismay of the socially climbing Bucket, Onslow lived in a scruffy council house with a rusting Hillman Avenger in in the front garden

Geoffrey Hughes as Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances PA

In real life, however, Hughes enjoyed sailing, golf and cricket, and in 2009 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for the Isle of Wight.

In 2010 Hughes was rushed to hospital for intense radiotherapy after collapsing at his Isle of Wight home.

Hughes had thought he had beaten prostate cancer the previous year, but the actor and his wife Sue were given the news the disease had returned.

[Muad'dib]

I will miss him, he was my role model and my favorite on that show, right before Rose

[hairyreb]

[Cheeryeeyore]

He was great in Keeping Up Appearances!

[coloradohermit]

I wonder if they're really sure he's not just being "bone idle". He was DH's hero.

[WVtreehanger]

RIP. Ditto Muad'dib

[WalknTrot]

OMG! I loved Onslow! The perfect foil to "That Bucket Woman". And a heck of a lot of guts playing the role shirtless for so many years.

Well, with a body like that, the angels are gonna want to take you home early. RIP and thanks for so much laughter.

[Amazed]

Another Onslow fan here. Dammed prostate cancer.

[Breeta]

Not Bucket, Boo-KAY! Hee hee Aw he was great! So sorry to hear he passed. Glad he left such a legacy of great performances on that show.

[WFK]

Another Onslow fan here. Dammed prostate cancer.

I wonder if the guy ever had a PSA test or if the British Health Service has already decided (like Obamacare will) that this relatively cheap test
is not really necesssary because too many get treated then too agressivly. Dying of prostate cancer at 68 seems so avoidable these days.
Only if there is a campaign against such test will men not ask for it. Relatively cheap means less than $50, to make that clear.