Hattie Jacques Overview:

Character actress, Hattie Jacques, was born Josephine Edwina Jacques on Feb 7, 1922 in Sandgate, Kent. Jacques died at the age of 58 on Oct 6, 1980 in Kensington, London .

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Hattie Jacques was a  beaming British character actress who played vivid supporting roles from her early twenties. She was a radio comedienne from 1947, but did not get into her film comedy stride until the "Carry On" series came along. Later, she was a notable foil for Eric Sykes in his long-running television shows ("Sykes" and "Sykes and a..."). She was married to actor John le Mesurier from 1949 to 1965. She died from a heart attack.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Illustrated Dictionary of Film Character Actors).

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Hattie Jacques Quotes:

Gladstone Screwer: I'll call you "Sunday".
Matron: Well, I won't be in.


Peggy Hawkins: [to the car salesman] We'll take fifteen!


The Colonel: Come come, Matron. Surely you've seen a temperature taken like this before?
Matron: Yes Colonel. But never with a daffodil!


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Being most famous for her matron characters it is interesting to note that she actually was a Red Cross nurse during the second world war!

Last name was pronounced as "Jakes" rather than the French "Jacques" ("zhack").

She allegedly declined an O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1970s for her services to drama.

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