Kate was born in 1936, as Audrey Craig-Brown, in Newton Mearns, a suburb of Glasgow. She took various parts in repertory in theatres in both England and Scotland, sometimes alongside the actor/announcer Graham Roberts, whom she married in 1959.
Her stage work included a role in The Mousetrap in London and a repertory season at His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen.
Kate continued work as an actress, often directed by her second husband, Rikki Fulton, and toured Scotland with him in A Wee Touch of Class, Fulton’s updated version of a Moliere play which had been a success at the Edinburgh Festival of 1986.
Kate was an announcer and presenter at Grampian TV in the early 1970s. Known for her clarity of diction, she had a strong following.
She introduced peak-time programmes for the home screen from the former Theatre Royal studios of Scottish Television. She was one of the last of commercial TV’s in-vision continuity announcers.
She married Scottish comedian Rikki Fulton in 1969. Fulton was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 1998 and died on 27th January 2004, aged 79.
Kate died after completing a book about her relationship with Fulton, entitled Rikki & Me.
For her funeral in Glasgow, she requested that no black ties should be worn because “we [she and Fulton] were together again.”
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