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Patrick Fyffe
female impersonator
Years active1972–2002
Known forPlaying Dame Hilda Bracket in the comedy act Hinge and Bracket

Patrick Fyffe (23 January 1942 – 11 May 2002) was an English

female impersonator, best known for playing the character of Dame Hilda Bracket, alongside George Logan as Dr Evadne Hinge as the duo "Hinge and Bracket
".

Early life

Fyffe was born Patrick John Nathaniel Fyffe in 1942 in Acton Trussell, Staffordshire. Many of his immediate family had been active in musical theatre, but he initially trained as a hairdresser, and ran his own salon in Stafford before making a career on the stage. He was a regular star of local amateur productions, but a desire to turn professional took him to London.

Career

Fyffe's early professional appearances included a 1964 production of the musical

Lyric Theatre,[1] (in which his sister played the lead for a period, and he played one of Elizabeth's brothers), and a 1971 production of the same show at the Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow.[2]

With some experience of repertory and a couple of provincial tours behind him, Fyffe invented the cabaret

drag act character of glamorous soprano Perri St Claire. Played on stage as a sophisticated young lady with singing talent, the Perri character was sufficiently eye-catching to earn him some television slots, and Fyffe was asked to appear in character in a number of television series of the late 1960 and early 1970s, such as Z-Cars, Special Branch and an episode of Doctor in the House in 1969, when he appeared as a cabaret singer.[3] Fyffe also appeared in the film spin-off Steptoe and Son
(1972), as a drag artist who becomes the mistaken object of Steptoe Senior's lust.

In the early 1970s, Patrick Fyffe was performing at the Escort Club in

gay clubs, they found more mainstream success at the 1974 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and appeared in several BBC Radio and Television series. They made many stage appearances, including two Royal Variety Performances.[4][5][6] A backstory developed for the Hinge and Bracket characters in which they were said to be residing in a fictional village called Stackton Tressel; the name was adapted from Fyffe's birthplace of Acton Trussell.[7][8]

Death

Fyffe died in 2002 in

colon cancer. He was outlived by his sister, the actor Jane Fyffe.[9]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ "Programme" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
  2. ^ Programme Robert and Elizabeth - Glasgow University's Special Collections Department
  3. ^ Network DVD; 'Pass or Fail', Doctor in the House, 1969.
  4. ^ Dixon, Stephen (14 May 2002). "Obituary: Patrick Fyffe". The Guardian.
  5. ^ "About Hinge & Bracket". Hinge & Bracket Official. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  6. ISBN 978-1-5175-3573-5
    .
  7. ^ "Dear Ladies trivia". British Comedy Guide. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  8. ^ "Dear Ladies". nostalgiacentral.com. Nostalgia Central. 5 April 2015. Retrieved 23 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Drag artist who played elderly eccentric Dame Hilda Bracket". The Irish Times. Retrieved 3 December 2019.

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