Gretchen Franklin
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Gretchen Gordon Franklin was an English actress and dancer with a career in show business spanning over 70 years. She played Ethel Skinner in the long-running BBC1 soap opera EastEnders on a regular b
Franklin as Ethel Skinner in EastEnders
Anna Wing
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Anna Wing was a British actress who had a long career in television and theatre, known for playing Beale family matriarch Lou Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
Gretchen Franklin
…colleague June Brown at The British Soap Awards; however, she was too ill to attend. It was instead presented to Brown by another EastEnders actress Anna Wing, who played Lou Beale. Wing mentioned Franklin in her speech. Franklin died at her home in Barnes on 11 July 2005, four days after her 94th birthday…
Wing in 2007