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Hattie Jacques. Actress: Carry on Again Doctor. Best known for playing Matron--as in "Ooh, Matron!"--in four films: Carry on Nurse (1959), Carry on Doctor (1967), Carry on Again Doctor (1969) and, of course Carry on Matron (1972). Key roles included: Grace Short in Carry on Teacher (1959), Sophie Bliss in Carry on Loving (1970) and Peggy ...
Hattie Jacques (/ dʒ eɪ k s /; born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 1922–1980) was an English actress who appeared in many genres of light entertainment including radio, film, television and stage. Jacques's career spanned from 1939 until her death in 1980.
Beginning her career during WW2, starting in music hall in 1944, Hattie first came to prominence on the radio, appearing with Tommy Handley on ‘It’s That Man Again’, with ventriloquist Peter Brough on ‘Educating Archie’ and later with comedic actor Tony Hancock in ‘Hancock’s Half Hour’, which started as a radio comedy before transferring success...
Nov 14, 2020 · She was born in Kent in 1922 as Josephine Edwina Jaques, later adding the “c” to her surname in a bid for Frenchification. Her grandfather managed a billiards hall, and her father, an RAF officer, was killed on a solo flight over Grantham when she was 18 months old.
Biography. Josephine Edwina Jaques (7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress, known as Hattie Jacques. Starting her career in the 1940s, Jacques first gained attention through her radio appearances with Tommy Handley on ITMA and later with Tony Hancock on Hancock's Half Hour. From 1958 to 1974 she appeared in fourteen ...
Jacques, Hattie (1922-1980) Actor Monumental star of the Carry On series, usually cast as formidable hospital matrons (at least four) or man-devouring predators whose affections were apt to strike terror in weak-kneed men, and she strikes an engagingly exotic note as Floella in Carry On Abroad (d.
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Nov 1, 2011 · Hattie Jacques is known as the billowing, imposing Matron in the Carry On films, as the star of such BBC radio classics as ITMA, Educating Archie and Hancock’s Half Hour, and as the fictional...
