Su Pollard is one of this countries’ National treasures with her career has spanning 50 years. She is most famous for her role in the sitcom Hi-de-Hi! She also appeared in You Rang, M’Lord? and Oh, Doctor Beeching! Su has appeared in over 35 stage plays and musicals, as well as over 40 pantomimes.
Su Pollard: Honours & beginnings
Su Pollard has recently become the new President of The British Musical Hall Society a position that had until recently been held by Paul O’Grady. Following an apprenticeship at the Arts Theatre in Nottingham, Su appeared on Opportunity Knocks in 1974, singing “I Cain’t Say No” from Oklahoma!, and came second to a singing Jack Russell.
Theatre
Su Pollard went on to play in the musicals The Desert Song and Rose-Marie with John Hanson, starred in the Cameron Mackintosh West End production of Godspell, played opposite Jack Wild in Big Sin City at the Roundhouse, toured in the musical Grease in a company that also included Tracey Ullman, appeared with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Hugh Paddick in the farce Not Now, Darling, starred in Andrew Sachs‘s play Philately Will Get You Nowhere and appeared at the Mermaid Theatre in a celebration of the music of Cole Porter, titled Oh Mr. Porter! Su also appeared in Annie, The Pirates of Penzance and the musical Shout! alongside Claire Sweeney, and starred in the stage production of Hi De Hi! – The Holiday Musical, along with almost all of the cast from the television series. Su played Sally in the West End production of Me And My Girl at the Adelphi Theatre which she appeared in for over a year, then came roles in a national tour of Rodgers and Hart’s Babes In Arms playing Bunny Byron opposite Matthew Kelly, and the title role in Sweet Charity.
Television
Su’s first comedy role was in BBC series Two Up, Two Down, in which she played a hippy named Flo. Next came a BBC comedy written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft set in a holiday camp. Su landed the role of chalet maid Peggy Ollerenshaw in Hi-de-Hi! She continued in this role until the programme’s end in 1988.
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