Fraser married Peter Yonwin, a travelling salesman, in November 1958, but the marriage soon broke down and they were divorced. She married her second husband, Bill Hitchcock, a TV director, in January 1965 at Harrow Register Office. They agreed not to work together, but this changed in 1972 when she appeared in the Rodney Bewes sitcom Albert!, which Hitchcock co-directed, and again later in the same year, when she acted in Turnbull’s Finest Half-Hour, a comedy series starring Michael Bates and produced by Hitchcock. Hitchcock died from a pulmonary embolism in February 1974, at the age of 45. Fraser was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1978 and 1979, undergoing a lumpectomy the first time and having reconstructive surgery at the Marsden in 1979.

She played Mrs Brent, the mother of a missing girl, in the television production of Agatha Christie’s Nemesis, starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple, in 1987. Another role was in the “Backtrack” episode of the British police series The Professionals, as Margery Harper (“Marge”), a glamorous woman who fenced stolen property in her shop.

Fraser was born in Southwark, London. Her year of birth was usually cited as 1933, which she gave when auditioning for her role in I’m All Right Jack, because the Boulting Brothers wanted someone younger for the part. In fact she was three years older, as she confirmed in her autobiography, Liz Fraser … and Other Characters, published by Signum Books in 2012. Her father was a travelling salesman for a brewery and her mother owned a shop just off the New Kent Road. Their family life was disrupted by the Second World War, when she was evacuated, initially to Westerham in Kent and then, when that was deemed still too vulnerable to bombing, to Chudleigh, a village in Devon. Her father died in May 1942, aged 40, when she was 11.

She died on 6 September 2018 at Royal Brompton Hospital as a result of complications following an operation.