Patricia Hayes
Birthday: Born in 1909-12-22 in Streatham, London, England, UK
Deathday: 1998-09-19
Patricia Lawlor Hayes OBE (22 December 1909 – 19 September 1998) was an English character actress.
TV Credits
Murder Most Horrid
Character: Mrs. Templecombe
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!...
Till Death Us Do Part
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Following the chronicles of the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf Garnett, a reactionary working-class man who holds racist and anti-socialist views....
Heartbeat
Character: Flo
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines....
The Goodies
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A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy....
The Benny Hill Show
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The Benny Hill Show is a British comedy television show that starred Benny Hill and aired in various incarnations between 15 January 1955 and 30 May 1991 in over 140 countries. The show focused on sketches that were full of slapstick, mime, parody, and double-entendre. Thames Television cancelled production of the show in 1989 due to declining ratings and large production costs at £450,000 per show....
Till Death...
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Alf and Elsie Garnett retire to Eastbourne, so Rita and Michael Jr. become the main characters who try to keep Alf out of trouble....
Lovejoy
Character: Lady Alfreston
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries....
Hugh and I
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Terry is a youngish bachelor who lives with his mother (Vi Stevens). He's a bit of a dreamer who wants to get rich as quickly and as easily as possible. Terry comes up with one grand "get rich quick" scheme after another, causing endless problems for himself and his friend, Hugh....
Hancock's Half Hour
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Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone. Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own char...
Catweazle
Character: Mrs. Skinner
A medieval wizard (though not a very good one) Catweazle is transported to the modern age... A British television series, created and written by Richard Carpenter which was produced and directed by Quentin Lawrence for London Weekend Television under the LWI banner, and screened in the UK on ITV in 1970. A second season in 1971 was directed by David Reid and David Lane. Both series had thirteen episodes each, with Geoffrey Bayldon playing the leading role. The series was broadcast in Ireland, ...
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
Character: Gran Waters
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. The series was a co-production by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, and is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all the episodes had American ac...
The Galton & Simpson Playhouse
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Seven Hilariously comic situations from the fertile imaginations of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson....
Maigret
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BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television....
The BBC Television Shakespeare
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The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and produced by BBC Television. It was transmitted in the UK from 3 December 1978 to 27 April 1985 and spanned seven series. Development of the series began in 1975 when Messina saw that Glamis Castle would make a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's play As You Like It. On returning to London, he envisioned an entire series devoted exclusivel...
Spooner's Patch
Character: Mrs. Cantaford
Comedy set in a small Police Station filled with self serving corrupt coppers!...
Citizen James
Character: Elderly Lady
Citizen James is a BBC sitcom that ran for three series between 24 November 1960 and 23 November 1962. The show featured comedian and actor Sid James and Sydney Tafler with Bill Kerr and Liz Fraser appearing in early episodes. It was initially written by the comedy writing team of Galton and Simpson, who based the characters very much on the "Sidney Balmoral James" and "Bill Kerr, the dim-witted Australian" roles that they had played in Hancock's Half Hour. The first series was set around 'Char...
Casualty
Character: Mrs. Calthorne
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives....
Beryl Reid
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Beryl Reid performs her favourite comedy sketches and scenes, featuring some of her own famous characters, with special guests....
The Goodies
Character: The Witch Hazel
A British television comedy series of the 1970s and early 1980s, combining surreal sketches and situation comedy....
The Witches and the Grinnygog
Character: Miss Letitia Bendybones
When a family come into possession of a statue called The Grinnygog, a trio of benevolent witches are summoned to the village where they live....
The Witches and the Grinnygog
Character: Miss Letitia Bendybones (voice) (uncredited)
When a family come into possession of a statue called The Grinnygog, a trio of benevolent witches are summoned to the village where they live....
Victorian Scandals
Character: Annie Druce
Featuring dramatised versions of true stories that shocked mainstream Victorian society....
Benny Hill Show
Character:
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Movie Credits
A Fish Called Wanda
Character: Mrs. Coady
While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection....
Willow
Character: Fin Raziel
The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil....
Went the Day Well?
Character: Daisy
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans....
The NeverEnding Story
Character: Urgl
While hiding from bullies in his school's attic, a young boy discovers the extraordinary land of Fantasia, through a magical book called The Neverending Story. The book tells the tale of Atreyu, a young warrior who, with the help of a luck dragon named Falkor, must save Fantasia from the destruction of The Nothing....
War Requiem
Character: Mother
During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying images by maintaining hope in his love for an army nurse. But he also begins to accept his fate as another battlefield sacrifice....
Little Dorrit
Character: Affery
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years. A film in originally released in two parts....
Carry On Again Doctor
Character: Mrs. Beasley
Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two....
Love Thy Neighbour
Character: Annie Booth
Two men who are nextdoor neighbors constantly battle it out over seemingly trivial offenses. Their wives, on the other hand, are best of friends. The two couples attempt to win a 'love-thy-neighbor' competition by lying......
The Terrornauts
Character: Mrs. Jones
A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction....
Mafia Junction
Character: Mamma the Turk
Cliff works as a narcotics investigator for the police and infiltrate a mafia gang. Soon it turns out that Cliff has bigger plans than just to bust bad guys....
Six Characters in Search of An Author
Character: Madame Pace
Adaptation of Pirandello's play....
An Audience With Victoria Wood
Character: Self
British comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi Dench and Dawn French in this 1988 special. Watch her crack jokes, play the piano and answer light-hearted questions....
Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Character: Grandma
Heironymus Merkin is an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a seashore in front of his two toddlers and aged mother. Merkin's promiscuous relationships with women are explored, particularly Polyester Poontang and the adolescent Mercy Humppe. Merkin is constantly surrounded by a Satan-like procurer, Goodtime Eddie Filth, and an angelic 'Presence' who interrupts Merkin's biography with cryptic Borscht Belt-level ...
The Bargee
Character: Onlooker (uncredited)
After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks - causing barges to pile up in every direction until the guilty party confesses....
The Corn Is Green
Character: Mrs. Watty
A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him....
Our Lady Blue
Character: Sheila
In a Liverpool convent a touching and unusual friendship is forged between Rachel, a young volunteer, Paul, doing 100 hours of community service, and Sheila, a dying prostitute. It results in a strange and forbidden journey to Lourdes....
Tony Hancock: From East Cheam to Earls Court
Character: Self
Ex-colleagues reflect on the comic genius and sometimes difficult character of Tony Hancock....
Just Like That!
Character: Self
Just Like That! is a celebration of the comic genius of Tommy Cooper] - just like that! But nobody could do it just like that apart from the unique Mr Cooper himself, and despite his claim never to have used those words. Was Tommy really Henry Coper's brother? Can Tommy's performance as Hamlet, clown prince, compare with the greats? Was Tommy a ventriloquist at heart? Rare and classic routines and contributions from famous fans help solve the mystery. The friends and fans who take part (many of...
The Steal
Character: Mrs Fawkes
A young American computer hackeress is hired by a liberal British lawyer to right the wrong done to a third world country by a London investment company. Even the expertise of her building inspector sidekick can not prevent a surprising development though....
The Enforcer
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After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify....
Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Character: Edna
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence....
Blue Ice
Character: Old Woman
An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up....
Girl Loves Boy
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Bob Conrad is the playboy son of town squire Charles Conrad. Much against his dad's wishes, Bob falls in love with Dorothy McCarthy, the daughter of penniless widow Mrs. McCarthy. At the insistence of his dad, Bob weds Sally Lace. Dorothy's broken heart is mended however, when it turns out that Sally's divorce from her previous husband was never finalized....
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Character: Miss Honeybun (uncredited)
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the help of an outgoing showgirl. O'Toole, who received his fourth Oscar-nomination for this performance, is joined by '60s pop star Petula Clark and fellow Oscar-nominee Michael Redgrave....
The Witches and the Grinnygog
Character: Miss Bendybones
An ancient church is being dismantled and moved to a new location, stone by stone. One of the gargoyles from the stones falls into the possession of a mother who takes the stone man back to her family. Soon after, four strangers show up in the village and the Sogood & Firkettle children seem to be the only ones who question the mysterious things that begin to happen. This film was originally broadcast across six 25 minute episodes with a total runtime of 150 minutes. A few years later, the US c...
Candles at Nine
Character: Gwendolyn, the Maid
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her....
The Best Of Benny Hill
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A theatrical film compilation of the popular Benny Hill show....
To the Public Danger
Character: Postmistress
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences....
The Sicilians
Character: Plane Passenger
An aide at the American Embassy in London finds himself involved with both Scotland Yard and the French police over the kidnapping of the son of a Mafia boss who has spilled the beans back in the States....
A Ghost of a Chance
Character: Miss Woollie
Three children try to fight against the destruction of a local historic landmark. They are helped by a group of friendly ghosts....
Danger on Dartmoor
Character: Mrs. Green
The adventures of children lost in fog on Dartmoor, who encounter a wild dog, an escaped convict, and other dangers....
Benny Hill: The Lost Years - The Good, the Bawd and the Benny
Character: Various
Part 3 of 3, featuring sketches never broadcast in America, this hilarious medley contains vintage material from Benny when his cheeky humor established him as one of England's funniest - and naughtiest - comedians. Filled with riotous musical send-ups, fractured fairy tales, wacky commercial spoofs and pitch-perfect impressions, this collection captures the vast range of one of England's most inspired comics!...
The House of Bernarda Alba
Character: Mara Josefa
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters....
Reach for Glory
Character: Mrs. Freeman
During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it....
King Kung Fu
Character: Meter maid
A remote monastery in China has trained a talking gorilla, King Kung Fu, in the ancient art of kung fu. Having mastered his fighting skills, King Kung Fu is sent to America to demonstrate the power of Chinese martial arts to the West. As he is travelling through Kansas, a pair of bumbling reports see KKF and decide he can be their ticket to fame and wealth. Of course, the gorilla gets away from them, and soon everyone is chasing the Shaolin simian....
The Love Match
Character: Emma Binns
After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £55 fine. He knows he's going to be discovered though, leaving him no choice but to get the money back by hook or by crook! His last chance is to run a book on the United v City football derby. If that wasn't tense enough, Bill's son is also making his debut for United. It looks like it's going to be a day to remember - do you dare look? ...The Love ...
The Dummy Talks
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An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance....
Film (A Screenplay by Samuel Beckett)
Character: Flower-Woman
A man attempts to remain hidden from view from the camera and other eyes....
Mrs. Capper's Birthday
Character: Mrs. Capper
Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends....
Fragment of Fear
Character: Mrs. Baird
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt....
Crime and Punishment
Character: Alyonna Ivanovna
A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky's classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed....
Broken Blossoms
Character: Minor role
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece....
The Last Island
Character: Mrs. Godame
After a large airliner crashes on a deserted island killing most of the passengers, two women, five men and a dog survive: an Eastern European, a Canadian lawyer, a French biologist, a prosperous Scottish financier, a young American, an extrovert Australian and a major in the British army. Hopes of rescue fade as the survivors come to realise that the world may have suffered a major disaster....
Hotel Reserve
Character: Woman
A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two....
Cymbeline
Character: Soothsayer
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong....
Saturday Night Out
Character: Edie's Mother
Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London....
Benny Hill: The Lost Years - Bennies from Heaven
Character: Various
Part 1 of 3, featuring sketches never broadcast in America, this hilarious medley contains vintage material from Benny when his cheeky humor established him as one of England's funniest - and naughtiest - comedians. Filled with riotous musical send-ups, fractured fairy tales, wacky commercial spoofs and pitch-perfect impressions, this collection captures the vast range of one of England's most inspired comics!...
Benny Hill: The Lost Years - Benny and the Jests
Character: Various
Part 2 of 3, featuring sketches never broadcast in America, this hilarious medley contains vintage material from Benny when his cheeky humor established him as one of England's funniest - and naughtiest - comedians. Filled with riotous musical send-ups, fractured fairy tales, wacky commercial spoofs and pitch-perfect impressions, this collection captures the vast range of one of England's most inspired comics!...
Great Day
Character: Mrs. Beadle
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems....
The Battle of the Sexes
Character: Jeannie Macdougall
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a businessman who asks for her help to bring his company into the 20th Century. The staff, led by Mr Martin, has other ideas—and a battle between the old and new business methods soon breaks out....
When We Are Married
Character: Ruby Birtle
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer....
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Character: Phoebe
A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle....
And the Wall Came Tumbling Down
Character: Granny Waters
Workmen digging in a building discover the remains of a 300 year-old devil cult....
The Portland Millions
Character: Annie Druce
Annie Druce claims she is the heir to the Duke of Portland....
Help!
Character: Woman washing paint off sacrificial victim
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed assassin all have their own plans for the Fab Four....