Louie Ramsay achieved widespread fame when she played Dora, the down-to-earth wife of Chief Inspector Wexford in the Ruth Rendell Mysteries on ITV.

The funeral of actress Louie Ramsay, who has died at the age of 81, has been held up because her only son is in hospital. Mr Baker, nearly 80, is now in a frail condition at Market Lavington nursing home, where Ms Ramsay died.

Louie Ramsay, who died on March 6 aged 81, was best known to television viewers as Dora, the spiky but down-to-earth wife of Chief Inspector Reg Wexford in the hugely popular Ruth Rendell Mysteries series on ITV.

Actor known for her role as Dora, the wife of Inspector Wexford in the popular TV series.

I am sad to announce that Louie passed away peacefully on the afternoon of Sunday, 6th March 2011.

Veteran Inspector Wexford star George Baker is halfway through a five-month stay in hospital following complications from a broken hip, sustained last March. Mr Baker, 78, went into hospital on October 15 and is not likely to be home until the end of February.

Veteran actor George Baker had to leave his hospital bed to take part in the filming of an episode of Celebrity Cash in the Attic at Aldridge’s saleroom in Devizes on Saturday.

George Baker and Christopher Ravenscroft are to appear on Cash in the Attic in a bid to raise money for West Lavington youth club. Items from George's attic will be auctioned at Henry Aldridge and Son's auction rooms in Devizes on 14 March, 2009.

Fellow dramatists George Baker, Louie Ramsay (a former Virgin Mary), Timothy West and Prunella Scales were among the many medieval theatre enthusiasts.

WEST Lavington based actor George Baker, best known as TV's Inspector Wexford, joined other celebrities at Buckingham Palace last week to receive his MBE from the Queen.

Guests at the dinner auction are to be husband and wife acting team George Baker and Louie Ramsay, and the mayors of all five west Wiltshire towns are also expected to attend.

Maureen Lipman: I remember when Sir Larry climbed hundreds of steps at the Albany to say "well done" to three totally unknown actresses - Sarah Atkinson, Louie Ramsay and myself - for playing the telling roles of the three randy women in Tyger, Tyger...

Louie Ramsay, daughter of the late Dr Melvin Ramsay – the infectious diseases physician who established ME as a distinct clinical entity following the outbreak of this illness at London's Royal Free Hospital back in 1955.

17th April 1957: Zack Matalon, Carole Raye, Louie Ramsay and Bernard Cribbins in musical 'Harmony Close' at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, London. (Photo by Denis De Marney/Getty Images)

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