• Hylda Baker (4 February 1905 – 1 May 1986) was an English comedian, actress and music hall performer. Born and brought up in Farnworth, Lancashire, she...
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  • Hylda may refer to: Hylda Baker (1905–1986), British comedian, actress and music hall star Hylda Queally (born 1961), Irish talent agent in the Hollywood...
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  • series, produced by Granada Television for the ITV network, starred Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel as squabbling middle-aged siblings Nellie and Eli Pledge...
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  • Dearest is a 1972 British comedy film directed by John Robins and starring Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel. A spin-off from the long running TV sitcom Nearest and...
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  • Valerie Barlow. He also produced the sitcom Nearest and Dearest with Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel. During the late 1970s, Eckersley spotted and developed...
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  • directed by Montgomery Tully and starring Hylda Baker and Cyril Smith. The film takes its title from Baker's best-known catchphrase. The BFI describes...
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  • character in the Granada Television series Nearest and Dearest, played by Hylda Baker Nellie Brie, from the film An American Tail: The Mystery of the Night...
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  • British sitcom that ran from 1974 until 1975. It starred veteran actress Hylda Baker as Nellie Pickersgill, a Bolton woman who moves to London to help run...
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  • Pledge's Pickle factory, set in Colne, Lancashire and starring alongside Hylda Baker and Jimmy Jewel. He also appeared in Last of the Summer Wine from 1975...
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  • Arthur Seaton Shirley Anne Field as Doreen Rachel Roberts as Brenda Hylda Baker as Aunt Ada Norman Rossington as Bert Bryan Pringle as Jack Robert Cawdron...
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  • Fergusson's show She Knows You Know!, in which she portrayed the comedian Hylda Baker, performed at the Vaudeville Theatre, was nominated for a 1998 Laurence...
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  • acted alongside Hylda Baker but this time playing the role of Charles, a clerk in an insurance office, next door to a café run by Baker. She accompanied...
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  • Queen Is Dead feature the line "Them was rotten days" said by Aunt Ada (Hylda Baker) in the film. Also the line said by Doreen before Arthur takes her to...
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    Gardens in 1972 and a blue plaque marks the spot. On Christmas Eve 1961, Hylda Baker (4 February 1905 – 1 May 1986) was hit by a passing car that mounted...
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    Farringdon, Ludgate Circus and Blackfriars en route to Elephant and Castle. Hylda Baker, the actress and TV comedienne, had an apartment in Ridgmount Gardens...
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  • The Avengers. He then starred in the sitcom Nearest and Dearest with Hylda Baker, playing bickering brother-and-sister pickle factory owners Eli and Nellie...
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  • Michael Standing as John Alfie Bass as Charlie Aubrey Morris as Creely Hylda Baker as Winnie Shaun Curry as Ted Olwen Griffiths as Fat Lil Queenie Watts...
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    Lancashire at Work (local industries etc.), Lancashire at Play (the Hylda Baker costume collection and Les Dawson, George Formby and Gracie Fields material)...
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    Wright, Jasper Carrott, Les Dawson, Jerry Sadowitz, Kenneth Williams and Hylda Baker as his favourite comedians. Lock and his wife, Anoushka Nara Giltsoff...
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  • which she played Eleanor. Film roles were rare, but she appeared in the Hylda Baker film She Knows Y'Know (1962), Who Killed the Cat? (1966), the film version...
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  • features briefly in the Hylda Baker sitcom Not On Your Nellie (1974), in an episode entitled "The Apartment" in which Baker's character has to stay in...
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  • Magistrate Peggy Mount as Corney Darkness Leonard Rossiter as Mr. Sowerberry Hylda Baker as Mrs. Sowerberry Kenneth Cranham as Noah Claypole Megs Jenkins as Mrs...
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  • stage and at times played piano in the pit, including for comedienne Hylda Baker. Barraclough later joined the repertory company at Stoke (appearing alongside...
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    perfect combination." In 1968, Blackman appeared opposite John Neville and Hylda Baker in the musical play Mr & Mrs, based on the plays of Noël Coward. In the...
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  • footballer, born in Horwich Gordon Atherton (born 1934), footballer Hylda Baker (1905–1986) – actress, comedian and music hall star, born in Farnworth...
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  • (Pye 7N 46121) (from the film Grease), a duet with fellow comedy actor Hylda Baker, who was in her seventies. The single, which peaked at number 22 in the...
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  • the Bank at Monte Carlo"; The Prisoner, Not on Your Nellie opposite Hylda Baker, Z-Cars, and in 1976 in The Sweeney episode "On the Run" in which he...
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  • Allen (1893–1982) Arthur Askey (1900–1982) Charles Austin (1878–1942) Hylda Baker (1905–1986) Michael Barrymore (born 1952) George Beauchamp (1862–1900)...
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    Steptoe and Son (1970–74); and Not On Your Nellie (1974–75), starring Hylda Baker as Nellie Pickersgill, alludes to the phrase "not on your Nellie Duff"...
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  • Castle, Roy Hudd, Ken Dodd, Barbara Windsor, Eartha Kitt, Danny La Rue, Hylda Baker, Les Dawson, Larry Grayson, Tommy Steele, Frankie Vaughan, John Inman...
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