Patricia Hayes

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{{Short description|British actress (1909–1998)}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}}
| name = Patricia Hayes
| image = Patricia_Hayes.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name = Patricia Lawlor Hayes
| birth_date = {{birth date|1909|12|22|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Streatham]], [[London]], England
| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|09|19|1909|12|22|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Puttenham, Surrey]], England
| othername =
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1938–1996
| spouse = Valentine Brooke (1939–1951) (divorced) (3 children)
| domestic_partner =
| children = [[Richard O'Callaghan]] (born 1940)
| resting_place =
[[Watts Cemetery Chapel]], [[Compton, Surrey|Compton]], Surrey, England
| website =
| awards =
}}
'''Patricia Lawlor Hayes''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE}} (22 December 1909 – 19 September 1998) was an English [[Character actor|character actress]].

==Early life==
Patricia Hayes OBE was born in [[Streatham]],<ref name="dnb">Dennis Barker, "Hayes, Patricia Lawlor (1909–1998)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/70907 available online]. Retrieved 18 June 2020.</ref> [[London]], the daughter of George Frederick Hayes and Florence Alice Hayes. Her father was a clerk in the civil service and her mother was a schoolmistress. As a child, Hayes attended the Sacred Heart School in Hammersmith.

==Career==
She was featured in many radio and television comedy shows between 1940 and 1996, including ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'', ''[[Ted Ray (comedian)#Ray's a Laugh (1949–1961)|Ray's a Laugh]]'', ''[[The Arthur Askey Show]]'', ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'', ''[[Bootsie and Snudge]]'', ''[[Hugh and I]]'' and ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]''. She played the part of Henry Bones in the BBC Children's Hour radio programme ''Norman and Henry Bones – The Boy Detectives'' during the late 1940s.

Hayes was cast in supporting roles for films including ''[[The Bargee]]'' (1964), ''[[The NeverEnding Story (film)|The NeverEnding Story]]'' (1984), ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' (1988) and was also featured as Fin Raziel in the [[Ron Howard]] film ''[[Willow (film)|Willow]]'' (1988).

Her most substantial television appearance was in the title role of ''[[Edna, the Inebriate Woman]]'' (''[[Play for Today]]'', 1971) for which she won a [[British Academy Television Awards|BAFTA award]]. She provided the character voice for comedy puppet performances for television and DVDs – e.g. [[Gran (TV series)|Gran]] (Woodland Animations, 1982).

She was the subject of ''[[This Is Your Life (British TV series)|This Is Your Life]]'' in 1972 when she was surprised by [[Eamonn Andrews]].{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}

In April 1975, Hayes was interviewed by [[Roy Plomley]] for ''[[Desert Island Discs]]''. A sizeable, yet incomplete, extract is available to listen to and download via the programme's website on the BBC.<ref>BBC Radio 4: ''Desert Island Discs'' http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009n6qn</ref>

In 1977, she appeared on the BBC's long running TV variety show ''[[The Good Old Days (British TV series)|The Good Old Days]]''; she had been an early member of the [[Players' Theatre]] in London, an old time [[music hall]] club, from the 1950s onwards.

In 1985, she starred in the title role of the TV play, ''Mrs Capper's Birthday'', by [[Noël Coward]].

==Personal life==
She was the mother of British actor [[Richard O'Callaghan]] (born Richard Brooke) by her marriage to Valentine Brooke, whom she divorced. She never remarried. She was formerly the head of the [[Catholic Association of Performing Arts (UK)|British Catholic Stage Guild]], which her son later chaired.

She was awarded an [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1988.

==Death==
Patricia Hayes died in September, 1998 in [[Puttenham, Surrey]],<ref name="dnb"/> but she appeared posthumously in the 2002 film ''[[Crime and Punishment (2002 Russian film)|Crime and Punishment]]'' which had been filmed in 1993, but delayed because of a legal case.<ref name=cul>{{cite book|year=2007|first=Louis |last=Paul|title=Tales from the cult film trenches: interviews with 36 actors from horror, science fiction and exploitation cinema|publisher=McFarland}}</ref> She is buried at Watts Cemetery, [[Compton, Guildford|Compton]], Surrey.<ref>Monumental inscription.</ref>

==Television roles==
{|class="wikitable"
! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
|-
|1938 || ''When We Are Married'' || Ruby Birtle ||
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|1957 to March 14, 1979 || ''The Benny Hill Show'' || Various ||(TV series)
|-
|1957 to 1958 || ''[[Educated Evans (TV series)|Educated Evans]]'' || Joe's Mother ||
|-
|1958 to 1960 || ''[[Hancock's Half Hour|Hancock]]'' || Mrs. Cravatte ||
|-
|1962 to 1966 || ''[[Hugh and I]]'' || Griselda Wormold ||
|-
|1967 to 1969 || ''The Very Merry Widow'' || Katie ||
|-
|1967 to 1975 || ''[[Till Death Us Do Part]]'' || Mrs Evans ||
|-
|1968 to 1969 || ''According To Dora'' || Various ||
|-
|1968 to 1969 || ''[[The World of Beachcomber]]'' || Various ||
|-
|1969 || ''[[Catweazle]]''|| Mrs. Skinner ||("The wisdom of Solomon")
|-
|1971 || ''[[Grasshopper Island]]'' || Lupus ||
|-
|1971 || ''[[Edna, the Inebriate Woman]]'' || Edna ||
|-
|1971 || ''The Trouble With Lilian'' || Lilian ||
|-
|1971 to 1972 || ''[[The Last of the Baskets]]'' || Mrs Basket ||
|-
|1972 || ''[[The Goodies]]''|| Hazel, or "Hecate, Queen of Necromancy" ||"That Old Black Magic" (ep 3.4)
|-
|1974 || ''Holiday With Strings'' || Air Hostess ||
|-
|1977 || ''[[London Belongs To Me]]'' || Connie Coke ||
|-
|1980 || ''[[Juliet Bravo]]'' || Doris Latham ||
|-
|1980 to 1982 || ''[[Spooner's Patch]]'' || Mrs Cantaford ||
|-
|1981 || ''[[Till Death...]]'' || Min Reed ||
|-
|1983 || ''[[The Witches and the Grinnygog (1983 series)|The Witches and the Grinnygog]]'' || Miss Bendybones ||
|-
|1983 to 1984 || ''[[The Lady Is a Tramp (TV series)|The Lady Is a Tramp]]'' || Old Pat ||
|-
|1984 || ''[[Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense]]'' || Gran Waters || "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down"
|-
|1985 || ''[[Marjorie and Men]]'' || Alice Tripp ||
|-
|1986 || ''[[In Sickness and in Health]]'' || Min Reed ||
|-
|1993 || ''[[Lovejoy (TV series)|Lovejoy]]'' || Lady Alfreston || (Series 5, Episode 3)
|-
|1995 || ''[[Heartbeat (UK TV series)|Heartbeat]]'' || Flo || (Series 5, Episode 2)
|-
|}

==Selected filmography==
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* ''[[Broken Blossoms (1936 film)|Broken Blossoms]]'' (1936) – Minor role (uncredited)
* ''[[Went the Day Well?]]'' (1942) – Daisy
* ''[[When We Are Married (film)|When We Are Married]]'' (1943) – Ruby Birtle
* ''[[The Dummy Talks]]'' (1943) – (uncredited)
* ''[[Hotel Reserve]]'' (1944) – Woman
* ''[[Candles at Nine]]'' (1944) – Gewndolyn – Maid
* ''[[Great Day (1945 film)|Great Day]]'' (1945) – Mrs. Beadle
* ''[[The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947 film)|The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby]]'' (1947) – Phoebe
* ''[[To the Public Danger]]'' (1948) – Postmistress
* ''[[Poet's Pub]]'' (1949) – Mrs. Lott (uncredited)
* ''[[La Rosa di Bagdad]]'' (1949) – Amin (English version, voice)
* ''Skimpy in the Navy'' (1949) – (uncredited)
* ''[[The Enforcer (1951 film)|The Enforcer]]'' (1951) – Teenager (uncredited)
* ''[[The Love Match]]'' (1955) – Emma Binns
* ''[[The Battle of the Sexes (1959 film)|The Battle of the Sexes]]'' (1960) – Jeannie Macdougall
* ''[[Reach for Glory]]'' (1962) – Mrs. Freeman
* ''[[Kill or Cure (1962 film)|Kill or Cure]]'' (1962) – Lily – Waitress
* ''The Sicilians'' (1963) – Plane passenger
* ''[[It's All Over Town]]'' (1964) – Charlady
* ''[[Saturday Night Out]]'' (1964) – Edie's Mother
* ''[[The Bargee]]'' (1964) – Onlooker (uncredited)
* ''[[The Terrornauts]]'' (1967) – Mrs. Jones
* ''A Ghost of a Chance'' (1968) – Miss Woollie
* ''[[Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?]]'' (1969) – Grandma
* ''[[Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969 film)|Goodbye, Mr. Chips]]'' (1969) – Miss Honeybun (uncredited)
* ''[[Carry On Again Doctor]]'' (1969) – Mrs. Beasley
* ''[[Fragment of Fear]]'' (1970) – Mrs. Baird
* ''[[Raising the Roof]]'' (1972) – Aunt Maud
* ''[[Super Bitch]]'' (1973) – Mamma the Turk
* ''[[Love Thy Neighbour (1973 film)|Love Thy Neighbour]]'' (1973) – Annie Booth
* ''[[The Best of Benny Hill]]'' (1974) – Interviewer ('Words of Comfort') / Marie Quaint
* ''[[Danger on Dartmoor]]'' (1980) – Mrs. Green
* ''[[The NeverEnding Story (film)|The NeverEnding Story]]'' (1984) – Urgl
* ''[[Little Dorrit (1987 film)|Little Dorrit]]'' (1987) – Affery
* ''[[Willow (film)|Willow]]'' (1988) – Fin Raziel
* ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' (1988) – Mrs. Coady
* ''[[War Requiem (film)|War Requiem]]'' (1989) – Mother
* ''[[The Fool (1990 film)|The Fool]]'' (1990) – The Dowager
* ''[[Blue Ice (film)|Blue Ice]]'' (1992) – Old Woman
* ''[[The Steal (film)|The Steal]]'' (1995) – Mrs. Fawkes
* ''[[Crime and Punishment (2002 Russian film)|Crime and Punishment]]'' (2002) – Alyonna Ivanovna, old pawnbroker (final film role)
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Portal|Biography}}
*{{IMDb name|0371175|Patricia Hayes}}
*{{screenonline name|id=583740|name=Patricia Hayes}}

{{British Academy Television Award for Best Actress 1960-1979}}

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[[Category:1909 births]]
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[[Category:20th-century English actresses]]
[[Category:Actresses from London]]
[[Category:Best Actress BAFTA Award (television) winners]]
[[Category:English film actresses]]
[[Category:English radio actresses]]
[[Category:English Roman Catholics]]
[[Category:English television actresses]]
[[Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire]]
[[Category:People from Streatham]]
[[Category:People from Wandsworth]]
[[Category:Alumni of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]]

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