Pamela Cundell was a renowned comic character actor perhaps best remembered for playing Mrs Fox in Dads Army Her career stretched as far back as 1948 when she appeared in Brighton Rock as a Pierrot artiste Other film credits included Half a Sixpence the big screen spin offs of popular 70s sitcoms On the Buses and Love Thy Neighbour Memoirs of a Survivor and A Fantastic Fear of Everything On TV she appeared alongside comics such as Benny Hill and Barry Humphries and in dramas such as The XYY Man Minder Big Deal The Borrowers and Doctors She was married to actor Bill Fraser from 1981 to his death in 1987