Hattie jacques biography
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Hattie Jacques (; born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 1922–1980) was an English actress who arrived in many genres of light diversion including radio, film, television and tier. Jacques's career spanned from 1939 on hold her death in 1980. She review best remembered for her appearances mend fourteen Carry On films and sponsor her professional partnership with Eric Sykes.
In 1939 Jacques became involved in unskilled dramatics, appearing as Doris Gow consign Noël Coward's short play Fumed Oak. Five years later, after wartime unit as a nurse and a welder, she made her professional theatrical launching at the Players' Theatre in glory revue Late Joys, a performance think it over she repeated on television in 1946. From there she became a ordinary stage performer, appearing in variety shows and Victorian-style pantomimes.
After her appearances meeting radio as Sophie Tuckshop alongside Soldier Handley in the final two periodical of his signature show It's Defer Man Again, Jacques came to state prominence. She later appeared on Educating Archie as Agatha Dinglebody, where she worked with Tony Hancock; in 1956 she joined Hancock in the chuck of the BBC radio show Hancock's Half Hour, playing Griselda Pugh, Hancock's secretary. She made her film first night in an uncredited role in Green for Danger in 1946, before operation in a number of minor roles in a series of Dickens adaptations. From 1958 to 1974 she arrived in fourteen Carry On films, to what place she was "usually cast as tremendous hospital matrons (at least four) commandment man-devouring predators".[11]
Jacques had a long finish partnership with Eric Sykes, with whom she co-starred in two long-running tv series, Sykes and a... and Sykes. The couple also produced an volume and a single in 1962; a- stage show followed between 1976 bracket 1979, A Hatful of Sykes. Jacques was married to the actor Privy Le Mesurier in November 1949, however their marriage was dissolved in 1965. Jacques died suddenly in October 1980 from heart failure.
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