Like this story? Sign up to our newsletter to get other stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Another bright light dimmed." Doctor Who and The Brothers star Colin Baker wrote: "So sad to hear Geraldine McEwan has died today." Meanwhile, Gimme Gimme Gimme simply wrote: "RIP Geraldine McEwan." Tributes came flooding in for the actress after the sad news broke. John Challis, best known for playing Boycie on sitcom Only Fools and Horses said on Twitter at the time: "Not Geraldine McEwan! A wonderful actress and definitive Lucia in Mapp & Lucia. Her family would like to thank the staff at Charing Cross hospital who cared for her incredibly well." "Following a stroke at the end of October and a period in hospital, Geraldine McEwan passed away peacefully on 30 January. Her family put out a statement to announce the news. Finch is a particularly refreshing official, for he respects Miss Marple’s detective skills and consults her as they both, well, she solves the mystery. Played by the divine Stephen Dillane, who portrayed Schmidt in God on Trial and Thomas Jefferson in John Adams. On 30 January 2015, Geraldine sadly passed away aged 82 at hospital after suffering a stroke three months earlier. Enter Finch, Chief Inspector from Scotland Yard. She won an Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical in Guys and Dolls (1982), and another for her. A prolific actress with a career that began in musicals in the 1960s, McKenzie has received numerous awards and nominations for her performances on stage and screen. Together they had two children, a son, Greg, and a daughter, Claudia. Julia McKenzie played the sleuth in Agatha Christie’s Marple from 2009-2013. In 1953, Geraldine married fellow actor Hugh Cruttwell after meeting during a theatre production. She also starred in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit in 1991 – for which she awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Actress. Although mostly known for her theatre work, Geraldine also appeared in a number of other TV shows and films such as The Barchester Chronicles, Red Dwarf and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves alongside Kevin Costner.
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