Actor Patrick Mower paid tribute today to his mother Peggy Johnson, who has died aged 91.

The Oxford-born TV star of the 70s said: "She was a very intelligent and a very game lady."

Mower, who played Agent Cross in Callan, Tom Haggerty in Special Branch and Det Supt Steve Hackett in Target, added: "We were always trying to get her to write her life story."

Mrs Johnson was born in Oldham in 1907 and moved south in the 1920s, spending some time in Slough, where she met her first husband Archie.

The couple later moved to Oxford, living in Ridgefield Road, east Oxford, where she brought up their three sons, Derek, Donald and Patrick.

During the war, she worked as a munitions worker at Cowley while Archie served with the Army. After Archie died, she remarried in 1973 to another Archie, who died eight years ago.

Mrs Johnson, who loved solving crosswords, in her last years joined the Gladiator Club near where she lived in the Abbeyfields residential home on the Iffley Road, east Oxford.

She spent the last years of her life as a social member of the club, enjoying the good company of her friends.

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