Pamela Manson

Pamela Manson (30 September 1928 – 19 March 1988) was a British actress who in her 30-year career on film, television and stage is best known for playing comedy roles. She was also a political activist who was a member of the International Committee for Artists' Freedom for Equity and a committee member of the National Campaign for the Reform of the Obscene Publications Acts.

Born as Pamela J. Cowan, and originally from Leeds, before turning to an acting career she worked as a secretary on the News Chronicle and at one time also worked as a public relations officer in the fashion industry and managed theatrical artists for a period. In 1949 at Kensington she married Louis Manson, later the Chairman of Cope Allman International; they had two sons and two daughters. The marriage was later dissolved.

Manson's first acting role was in 1952 following which she had a long career in the theatre. Breaking into television, she made appearances as the Canteen Server/Bertha in four episodes of Hancock's Half Hour (1957–59), Rita/Irma Stevens in Dixon of Dock Green (1961–62), Mrs. Phillips in Z-Cars (1965), René Tanner in Emergency – Ward 10 (1966), Maggie in All Gas and Gaiters (1967), Mrs. Lloyd in Champion House (1967–68), Mrs. Levy in Alexander the Greatest (1971), the Large Brim with Fruit in Are You Being Served? (1973), Sykes (1973), the NAAFI Girl in the We Know Our Onions episode of Dad's Army (1973), Sheila in Second Time Around (1974), Sally in The Good Life (1975), Sylvia in Bar Mitzvah Boy (1976), Barmaid in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976), Jackanory (1977), Molly in The Professionals (1978), and Sybil Nunn in Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself (1981–82), Landlady in The Chinese Detective (1982), Mavis in Hi-de-Hi! (1984), Mrs. Ivan in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1986) and the Fairy Godmother in The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1987), among other roles. She also appeared with Peter Sellers.

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