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Keeping Up Appearances
British TV sitcom (1990–1995)
For the TV episode, see Keeping Up Appearances (Friday Night Lights).
| Keeping Up Appearances | |
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| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Roy Clarke |
| Written by | Roy Clarke |
| Directed by | Harold Snoad |
| Starring | Patricia Routledge Clive Swift Josephine Tewson Geoffrey Hughes Judy Cornwell Shirley Stelfox Mary Millar David Griffin |
| Theme music composer | Nick Ingman |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 44 (including 4 specials) (list of episodes) |
| Producer | Harold Snoad |
| Production locations | BBC Television Centre Binley Woods, Warwickshire, England; (Hyacinth's Home) Stoke Aldermoor, Coventry, West Midlands, England; (Daisy and Onslow's Council Estate House) Leamington Spa, England (Towns and various locations) Northampton, England; (Church, Church Hall and Vicarage) Swindon, Wiltshire, England; Oxford, England; Bristol, England; Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; Copenhagen, Denmark; (location scenes) |
| Editor | Andy Quested |
| Camera setup | Single-camera Multi-Camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes 50 minutes (1994 Christmas special) 60 minutes (1993 Christmas special) |
| Production company | BBC |
| Network | BBC1 |
| Release | 29 October 1990 • Geoffrey Hughes (actor)English actor (1944–2012) Geoffrey William HughesDL (2 February 1944 – 27 July 2012) was an English actor. Hughes provided the voice of Paul McCartney in the animated film Yellow Submarine (1968), and rose to fame for portraying bin manEddie Yeats in the long-running British soap opera Coronation Street from 1974 to 1983, making a return to the show in 1987. He is well known for playing loveable slob Onslow in the British sitcom Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995) and "Twiggy" in the sitcom The Royle Family, playing the part from 1998 to 2008. From 2001 to 2005 he played conman and rogue businessman Vernon Scripps in the ITV police drama Heartbeat, taking over as the show's main rogue from Bill Maynard's Claude Greengrass, and returning to the programme briefly in 2007. Hughes was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the 1990s and in 2010 he suffered a relapse which led him to retire from acting. He died from the illness in 2012 at age 68. Life and career[edit]Hughes was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, to Ada (née Tulloch) and Bill Hughes. He had one younger brother, Gordon. He was brought up in Liverpool, where he attended Ranworth Square Primary School. He then went to Abbotsford Secondary Modern School in Norris Green, Liverpool. He |