Mollie Sugden

Mary Isobel Sugden (born 21st July, [1922]]) is a British comic actress best known to television audiences as Mrs. Slocombe in the long-running BBC sitcom Are You Being Served? and it's short-lived spin-off Grace And Favour. She had a recurring role on Coronation Street between 1965 and 1976 as Nellie Harvey, landlady of The Laughing Donkey public house and friend of Annie Walker.

Her other credits include Steptoe And Son, The Liver Birds, The Bill and Little Britain. Mollie's husband was the late William Moore, who played Cyril Turpin on the Street from 1969 to 1974.