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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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Dr. Kenneth Soaper: [on disturbing Matron in the shower] Matron, this is the *men's*!
Miss Haggerd: Go away, Doctor Soaper!


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


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


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She worked as an arc-welder during World War II. She was able to use this skill when she played Alice, a welder, in Chance of a Lifetime (1950).

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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