Miriam Karlin

Rag Trade star Miriam Karlin dies

Actress Miriam Karlin, known to many for her role as shop steward Paddy in TV sitcom The Rag Trade, has died in London aged 85.

The actress, who became an OBE in 1975, had cancer and died in hospital.

BBC News, 3rd June 2011

Miriam Karlin obituary

Actor best known as Paddy, the militant shop steward in the BBC's The Rag Trade.

Dennis Barker, The Guardian, 3rd June 2011

In spite of the ghost, it is a lively comedy by Paul A Mendelson (There is another Paul Mendelson?) with the excellent George Costigan and Miriam Karlin, who reminds me of a Jewish version of De mortuis nil nisi bonum, "Dead don't make you better".

Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 24th February 1992