Joan le mesurier biography

He was very fond of Tony, you see. An account of her relationship with Le Mesurier was a theme of the television drama Hattie in which she was played by Jeany Spark.

Joan le mesurier biography

Joan Le Mesurier Biography. All rights reserved. She married Le Mesurier in A few months later Le Mesurier introduced her to his close friend Tony Hancock. When her husband returned, she recalled, "he quite understood. I think he did. He was very fond of Tony, you see. An account of her relationship with Le Mesurier was a theme of the television drama Hattie in which she was played by Jeany Spark.

Her affair with Hancock was dramatised in Hancock and Joan in which she was portrayed by Maxine Peake. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. Joan Long was born in Oldham, Lancashire. She was brought up in Ramsgate, where her father owned a fish-and-chip shop.

She was working as a dental nurse in Broadstairs when she met the actor Mark Eden, birth name Douglas Malin, whom she married in They had one son, David Malin —who also became an actor. She and Eden divorced in