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Patricia Jessel
British actress

Patricia Jessel

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British actress
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
Place of death
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Age
47 years
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Biography

Patricia Helen Jessel (15 October 1920 – 8 June 1968) was an English actress of stage, film and television

Jessel was born in the then-British Crown Colony of Hong Kong She died from a heart attack in London, in June 1968, aged 47.

Jessel appeared both in the West End and on Broadway in the 1950s in Agatha Christie's play Witness for the Prosecution, for which she won a Tony in 1955.

Her other stage roles included Lady Macbeth at the Old Vic in 1962 and Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest in the opening season of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford.

Selected filmography

  • The Flesh Is Weak (1957)
  • The Man Upstairs (1958)
  • Armchair Theatre: Underground (TV, 1958)
  • Model for Murder (1959)
  • No Kidding (1960)
  • The City of the Dead (a.k.a. Horror Hotel, 1960)
  • A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
  • The Prisoner ("Checkmate", 1967)
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