Where Open All Hours cast are now from ditching acting, Corrie stint and tragic death

Open All Hours fans are mourning Lynda Baron after she died this week aged 82.

The sitcom, which ran between 1976 and 1985, was based in a Yorkshire grocer’s shop and followed the antics of tightwad owner Arkwright (Ronnie Barker) and his errand boy Granville (David Jason).

The show caused fans to grow immediately attached to many of the characters, but some of them, you may have also spotted before.

Stammering Arkwright lusted after Lynda’s character, Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, and would try anything to get into her bedroom. Here KIM CARR investigates what Lynda, Ronnie and the rest of the cast did next…

Ronnie Barker

After finding fame with shows such as The Two Ronnies and Porridge, following Open All Hours, Ronnie struggled to live up to his previous success.

He starred in sitcom The Magnificent Evans, about a Welsh photographer, which flopped.

He wrote his next project himself – a sitcom called Clarence, about a man with failing eyesight.

When that too failed to hit the mark, during a 1987 interview on Terry Wogan’s chat show Ronnie revealed he was closing the door on his acting career.

He then opened an antique shop in Chipping Norton. But the bright lights of showbiz lured him back for the odd TV appearance including a reunion with Ronnie Corbett for Two Ronnies Night.

The dad-of-three died in 2005, aged 76, from heart failure.

David Jason

Only Fools legend David, now 82, is one of the UK’s favourite actors.

After Open All Hours, Brits fell in love with his Pa Larkin in The Darling Buds Of May before he starred in long-running detective show A Touch of Frost between 1992 and 2010.

David reprised his role as Granville in Still Open All Hours from 2013. Last December he popped up as Del Boy on the Strictly Christmas special when The Repair Shop’s Jay Blades danced to the Old Fools theme tune.

In his personal life, David was with Welsh actress Myfanwy Talog, for 18 years and nursed her through breast cancer until she died in 1995.

In 2001 he became a dad for the first time aged 61 when new partner Gill Hinchcliffe gave birth to a daughter.

Lynda Baron

The actress enjoyed roles in sitcoms The Upper Hand, and Last of the Summer Wine and played Auntie Mabel in the award-winning 1990s children’s series Come Outside.

She also had a short stint in Coronation Street, dinnerladies and Goodnight Sweetheart then popped up in EastEnders as Jane Beale’s mum.

The mother-of-two’s last screen credit was BBC detective period show Father Brown in 2017.

Lynda tragically died on March 5, 2022.

Stephanie Cole

Keeping herself busy after playing downbeat Mrs Featherstone, Stephanie enjoyed success in Waiting For God, Doc Martin and as Roy Cropper’s mum in Coronation Street.

Her latest gig was in 2019 BBC comedy Scarborough. Stephanie, 80, has been married twice and has a daughter.

Maggie Ollerenshaw

She struggled to make her mind up about anything as indecisive customer Mavis but it was an easy decision to come back for Still Open Hours.

Maggie, now 72, also popped up in House of Eliott, Lovejoy Holby City and Corrie and even made it to the big screen in Steven Spielberg’s War Horse in 2011.

She also voices Henrietta in cartoon Thomas & Friends.

Kathy Staff

Viewers knew her as Mrs Blewett but the actress would be most fondly remembered for playing Nora Batty in Last Of The Summer Wine until her death from a brain tumour in 2008.

Kathy also appeared in Last of the Summer Wine and Crossroads.

Barbara Flynn

After her spell as the milkwoman Barbara, 73, starred in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, as a doctor in A Very Peculiar Practice and had stints in Cracker and Cranford following her declaration she had a fondness for playing “feisty, strong women.”

With stints in Miss Potter, Cranford and The Queen, Barbara still continues to act.

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