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2 unusual facts about Penelope Keith


Jonathan Dow

His first big television role was as Under Secretary Tim in No Job for a Lady (BBC, 1990) with Penelope Keith.

Peter Bowles

This led to what is probably still his best known role, in To the Manor Born, a show that received audiences of more than 20 million, in which he co-starred with Penelope Keith (1979–81, 2007), playing the apparently aristocratic (but in fact self-made immigrant) businessman Richard DeVere.


Ann Gosling

Gosling is best remembered for the sitcom Next of Kin (TV series) in which she played Georgia Prentice for 3 series 1995-1997 starring alongside Penelope Keith and William Gaunt.


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Douglas Arthur Watkinson

Watkinson has also written plays for the stage including The Dragon’s Tail which also starred Penelope Keith, as directed by Michael Rudman and was performed at the Apollo Theatre and Richmond Theatre in London in 1985.