Patricia Driscoll Explained

Patricia Driscoll
Birth Date:17 December 1927
Birth Place:South Kensington, London, England[1]
Death Place:Kent, England
Occupation:Actress
Children:2
Yearsactive:1953–2000

Patricia Noel Driscoll[2] (17 December 1927 – 2 January 2020) was a British and Irish actress, who has appeared both on television and in films.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Television work

Trained as an actress at RADA,[4] Driscoll made her first television appearances in 1953 on Whirligig and then as a police sergeant in the series Scotland Yard in the episode "The Silent Witness" in 1954. From 1955 to 1957, she introduced Picture Book, a BBC Television series that appeared on Mondays as part of the Watch with Mother cycle and encouraged children to make things.[9] She had a catchphrase: "Do you think you could do this? – I am sure you could if you tried". Driscoll left Picture Book in 1957 to take over from Bernadette O'Farrell the part of Maid Marian opposite Richard Greene in the ITV series The Adventures of Robin Hood for 37 episodes in series 3 and 4.[3] Her place in Picture Book was taken by Vera McKechnie in a further series in 1962–63.

Driscoll’s other numerous television appearances included:[3] The Vise (1958), Hawaiian Eye (1959), Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse: Murder in Gratitude (1959), Danger Man (1961 & 1964), Second Time Around (six episodes, 1974), The Good Life (1977), Kidnapped (mini-series, 1978), and Into The Labyrinth (1981). One of her last roles used her voice in an animation called Bye-Bye Bin Laden (2009).

Filmography

YearFilmRoleDirectorOther players
1955 Timeslip (1955 film) - ('The Atomic Man', US title) X-ray assistant Gene Nelson
1956 Charley Moon Rose Max Bygraves
1958 Dial 999 (TV series) ('Fashions in Crime', episode)Det. Sgt. Ann Hawkins Zena Marshall
1959 Woman's Temptation Betty Robert Ayres
1959 The Child and the Killer Peggy Robert Arden
1960 The Wackiest Ship in the ArmyMaggie Jack Lemmon

Personal life and death

Driscoll was married to British actor Duncan Lamont until his death from a heart attack at the age of 60 in 1978. He too had appeared in The Adventures of Robin Hood. They had two children together.

She died in Kent on 2 January 2020, at the age of 92.[10] [11]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1277&h=12745981&tid=&pid=&queryId=e11d2346aea62ed10d43703588dbf5d2&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Dqh234&_phstart=successSource Patricia Noel Lamont in the New York State, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1917–1967
  2. British Film and Television Year Book, Volume 9 (1959), pg. 80
  3. Web site: Robin Hood Tree, TV programme website with pictures. 17 June 2012.
  4. Web site: Cherished Television web-site. 17 June 2012.
  5. Web site: Patricia Driscoll. https://web.archive.org/web/20190209024842/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba006804c. dead. 9 February 2019. BFI.
  6. Web site: Patricia Driscoll Maid Marian . 2009-05-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090512043022/http://www.robinhood-tv.co.uk/cast/patriciadriscoll.htm . 2009-05-12 . dead .
  7. Web site: https://web.archive.org/web/20041105113435/http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/robinhood/cast/patriciadriscoll.htm . 5 November 2004 . Patricia Driscoll Maid Marian (Series 3 and 4) . tiscali.co.uk . 2 August 2021 .
  8. Brian McFarlane (Ed): The Encyclopedia of British Film (BFI/Methuen • London • 2003) p397 [with Lamont, Duncan]
  9. Picture Show Who's Who on the Screen (Amalgamated Press • London) [1956] p40
  10. https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Wills?surname=lamont&yearOfDeath=2020&advancedSearch=False&IsGrantSearch=True#wills Probate Record: LAMONT, Patricia Noel
  11. https://soundcloud.com/user-641157658/in-memoriam-part-1/s-mAJMq5CZhCY?in=user-641157658/sets/equity-magazine-spring-summer//s-7QSCyLYo5gJ Equity Magazine, Spring/Summer 2021, In Memoriam Part 1