played Policewoman Pat in Mooncat and Co (1984–85) and voiced one of the puppets in the children's show Playbox (1988) alongside Keith Chegwin. She was seen in Rainbow (1981–82), The Basil Brush Show (1977–79) and Supergran, and joined Stanley Baxter to play Miss Flavia Jelly in the first two series of Mr Majeika (1988–89), among many others. Personal life Coombs never married or had children. She said that twice she came close to marrying, but was not sure enough to proceed. She once remarked: "I've never been wildly ambitious; I think if I'd been married, my career would have gone out of the window." Illness and death Coombs was diagnosed with osteoporosis in 1995, and became an active campaigner for the National Osteoporosis Society. Her Christmas appeal letter raised £100,000 for the charity's research. She had just completed a role for Radio 4 alongside Roy Hudd and June Whitfield in Like They've Never Been Gone when she died on 25 May 2002, aged 75, from emphysema in Denville Hall actors' home, a west London nursing home to which she had moved to be close to her friend Peggy Mount, who had died six months earlier. Filmography References Pat Coombs - The Authorised biography by Andrew Ross (Fantom Publishing, 2021) External links Obituary, theguardian.com; accessed 16 January 2016. Pat Coombs profile, ftvdb.bfi.org.uk; accessed 19 August 2015. 1926 births 2002 deaths 20th-century English actresses 21st-century English actresses Deaths from emphysema Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art English film actresses English radio actresses English soap opera actresses English television actresses People from Camberwell