Patricia Routledge played Hetty Wainthrop on television which actor, who later became a Hobbit, played her young assistant?
Patricia Routledge Investigates", again with Routledge in the lead role, co-starring rising star Dominic Monaghan as her assistant and Derek Benfield as her husband. It first aired in January 1996, and ran until the autumn of 1998, with one special episode in 1999. She has also played several real-life characters for television, including Barbara Pym, and, in a dramatised BBC Omnibus biographical documentary of 1994, Hildegard of Bingen. In 2001, Routledge starred in "Anybody's Nightmare", a fact-based television drama in which she played a piano teacher who served four years in prison for murdering her elderly aunt, but was acquitted following a
Patricia Routledge of grandeur (her oft-mentioned "candlelight suppers"). Routledge delighted in portraying Hyacinth, as she claimed she couldn't stand people like her in real life. In 1991, she won a British Comedy Award for her portrayal, and she was later nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards in 1992 and 1993. The series ended at Routledge's request in 1995. In 1989, Routledge accepted the lead in another role, playing Hetty Wainthropp in the ITV mystery drama entitled "Hetty Wainthropp Missing Persons". ITV opted not to pursue with a series after the pilot episode, so in 1996 BBC produced the series entitled "Hetty Wainthropp