MANILA, Philippines — Actor Ian de Leon paid tribute to the inspiring legacy of his late mother Nora Aunor, who passed away at 71. The National Commission for Culture and the Arts hosted state ...

Michael Marra is a delight, as is Kathy Staff, in full Nora Batty mode. Stravinsky is bespectacled and studious, Mondrian a dashing young aesthete. His studies of Sita, by contrast, are likely ...

Brian also starred in episodes of Holby City, Benidorm and Last of the Summer Wine, in which he played the neighbour of Nora Batty. Linda shares Brian’s love of performing: He loved everything ...

One suggested using a picture of Last Of The Summer Wine battleaxe Nora Batty in her wrinkled stockings to promote the link with Ballito mill in the Hertfordshire town. Robin Hall wrote on ...

Fans of Last of the Summer Wine may remember the viaduct being used in an episode entitled Three Men and a Mangle, where Compo, Clegg and Foggy attempt to hoist Nora Batty’s mange up from the ...

The comic actor Brian Murphy, who has died at 92, was known to generations of TV viewers as the henpecked George Roper in Man About The House and its sequel George and Mildred, and as Nora Batty ...

In 2003, he then joined Last Of The Summer Wine, and for seven years played Nora Batty’s neighbour, practical joker Alvin Smedley. He also appeared as Clive in Benidorm. And two years ago ...

actress Linda Regan, by his side, his agent said. He also starred as Nora Batty’s (Kathy Staff) neighbour Alvin Smedley in Last Of The Summer Wine, and appeared in a host of other TV shows ...

actress Linda Regan, by his side, his agent said. He also starred as Nora Batty’s (Kathy Staff) neighbour Alvin Smedley in Last Of The Summer Wine, and appeared in a host of other TV shows, including ...