The daughter of William Lott, who managed Ealing Studios before the Second World War, Barbara Lott trained for acting at RADA. She made her stage debut in 1944 and her first television appearance in 1950. Barbara achieved fame late in life as Mrs Bennett in Rings on Their Fingers (1978) and as Ronnie Corbett's mother in Sorry! (1981). Barbara was married to television producer Stuart Latham (who died in 1993).