<P> Old Mother Riley was a music hall act which originally ran from about 1934 to 1954 played by Arthur Lucan, and from 1954 to the 1980s played by Roy Rolland . </P> <P> Old Mother Riley (full comedy name; Daphne Bluebird Snowdrop Riley) was an Irish washerwoman and charwoman character, devised by Lucan (born Arthur Towle). His wife Kitty McShane played Old Mother Riley's daughter, Kitty . It was essentially a drag act but also a double act . The couple played music halls, theatres, and broadcast on radio and appeared in films . Lucan was voted sixth biggest British box - office star by the Motion Picture Herald in 1943 . They also gave Jimmy Clitheroe his break in 1939 in an Old Mother Riley pantomime called The Old Woman who Lives in a Shoe, and then the following year a part in their film, Old Mother Riley in Society . The Film Fun comic included an "Old Mother Riley" strip cartoon in the 1940s . </P>

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