Betty Marsden Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Betty Marsden (24 February 1919 – 18 July 1998) was an English comedy actress. Originally from Liverpool, she attended the Italia Conti Stage School and ENSA. In the radio series Beyond Our Ken, she played Fanny Haddock, a takeoff of Fanny Cradock. In the radio series Round the Horne, she played a similar role (Daphne Whitethigh), as well as Lady Counterblast (née Clissold), Buttercup Gruntfuttock (wife of J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, personified by Kenneth Williams), Dame Celia Molestrangler, Judy Coolibar, Dame Bella Goatcabin, and others. In 1958, Marsden played the role of the Fairy... MORE

Betty Marsden (24 February 1919 – 18 July 1998) was an English comedy actress. Originally from Liverpool, she attended the Italia Conti Stage School and ENSA. In the radio series Beyond Our Ken, she played Fanny Haddock, a takeoff of Fanny Cradock. In the radio series Round the Horne, she played a similar role (Daphne Whitethigh), as well as Lady Counterblast (née Clissold), Buttercup Gruntfuttock (wife of J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, personified by Kenneth Williams), Dame Celia Molestrangler, Judy Coolibar, Dame Bella Goatcabin, and others. In 1958, Marsden played the role of the Fairy Godmother, in the sumptuous production of Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella at the London Coliseum with Tommy Steele, Kenneth Williams, Yana and Jimmy Edwards. She escaped the wrath of the critical community in London when her role of Aunt Dahlia was removed from Andrew Lloyd Webber's flop musical Jeeves (1975) before opening night. Perhaps her most famous catchphrase was "many, many, many times", delivered in the dry, reedy tones of Bea Clissold, the ancient actress who was renowned for having given pleasure to many, particularly in "The Little Hut" on Shaftsbury Avenue. This long outlasted the LESS