Yootha Joyce Yootha Joyce Yootha Joyce Needham (20 August 1927 – 24 August 1980), credited as Yootha Joyce, was a British actress best known for playing Mildred Roper opposite Brian Murphy in the sitcom "Man About the House" and its spin-off "George and Mildred". Needham was born in Wandsworth, London, the only child of musical parents Hurst Needham, a well-known singer, and Jessica Revitt, a concert pianist. She was named "Yootha", an Australian Aboriginal name, after a New Zealand dancer in her father's touring company. She was evacuated to Hampshire during the Second World War. She left school (Lady Edridge Grammar school
Michael Murphy (actor) "Me Lay" Marston, IV in "M*A*S*H" (1970), as Frank Shaft in "Brewster McCloud" (1970), as John Triplette in "Nashville" (1975), and as the title character in "Tanner '88" (a role he reprised in the 2004 miniseries "Tanner on Tanner"). Other Altman films and television series in which Murphy appeared include the World War II TV series "Combat!" (in which Murphy appeared in 1963, on the show's second of its five seasons), "Countdown" (1968), "That Cold Day in the Park" (1969), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971), "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" (1988) and "Kansas City" (1996). Other notable film roles include