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- Le Mesurier was married three times, most notably to the actress Hattie Jacques. A heavy drinker of alcohol for most of his life, Le Mesurier died in 1983, aged 71, from a stomach haemorrhage, brought about as a complication of cirrhosis of the liver.
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Le Mesurier was a heavy drinker, but was never noticeably drunk. [150] In 1977 he collapsed in Australia and flew home, where he was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver and ordered to stop drinking. [ 151 ]
May 21, 2020 · “I had never thought of myself as a heavy drinker,” Le Mesurier once said. “I liked to drink, yes. Sometimes I drank too much, sometimes not at all.” Alcohol was definitely a prominent feature of...
On Saturday, in the first of two extracts from a revealing new biography of actor John Le Mesurier, we told how he was cuckolded by his second wife Hattie Jacques and then betrayed by his third...
Mar 4, 2022 · Unfortunately, John's heavy drinking had led to him developing cirrhosis of the liver. At the age of 71, he died of a stomach haemorrhage brought on by his condition.
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Le Mesurier was born John Halliley, in Bedford on 5 April 1912. His parents were Charles Elton Halliley, a solicitor, and Amy Michelle (née Le Mesurier), whose family were from Alderney in the Channel Islands; both families were affluent, with histories of government service or work in the legal profession.[lower-alpha 1] While John was an infant t...
1934–46
The Millicent Ward repertory company typically staged evening performances of three-act plays; the works changed each week, and rehearsals were held during the daytime for the following week's production. Under his birth name John Halliley, Le Mesurier made his stage debut in September 1934 at the Palladium Theatre in Edinburgh in the J. B. Priestley play Dangerous Corner, along with three other newcomers to the company. The reviewer for The Scotsman thought that Le Mesurier was well cast in...
1946–59
On his return to Britain, Le Mesurier returned to acting, although he initially struggled for work, finding only a few minor roles. In February 1948 he made his film debut in the second feature comedy short Death in the Hand, which starred Esme Percy and Ernest Jay. He followed this with equally small roles in the 1949 film Mother Riley's New Venture—although his name was misspelt on the credits as "Le Meseurier"—and the 1950 crime film Dark Interval.During the same period he also frequently...
1960–68
Le Mesurier appeared in nine films in 1960,[lower-alpha 4] as well as nine television programmes, including episodes of Hancock's Half Hour, Saber of London and Danger Man.[lower-alpha 5] His work the following year included a part in Peter Sellers's directorial debut Mr. Topaze, a film which failed both critically and commercially. He provided the voice of Mr. Justice Byrne in a recording of excerpts from the transcript of R v Penguin Books Ltd.—the court case concerning the publication of D...
In 1939, Le Mesurier accepted a role in the Robert Morley play Goodness, How Sad!, directed by June Melville—whose father Frederick owned a number of theatres, including the Lyceum, Prince's and Brixton. Melville and Le Mesurier soon began a romance, and were married in April 1940. Le Mesurier was conscripted into the army in September 1940; after ...
A heavy drinker of alcohol for most of his life, Le Mesurier died in 1983, aged 71, from a stomach haemorrhage, brought about as a complication of cirrhosis of the liver. After his death, critics reflected that, for an actor who normally took minor roles, the viewing public were "enormously fond of him".
Jan 29, 2019 · In life, John would go on three- and four-day benders, accompanied by some of the best actors of his generation, most outstanding of which was Tony Hancock, who committed suicide and was an even heavier drinker than John.
