Joan le mesurier biography
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Joan le mesurier biography
Joan Le Mesurier
English actor and biographer (1931–2021)
Joan Dorothy Le Mesurier (née Long, formerly Malin; 3 July 1931 – 9 July 2021) was an English actress and author who was the widow and biographer of the actor John Le Mesurier.
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,[1][2][3] whom she married in 1953.[4] They had one son, David Malin (1957–2017), who also became an actor.[5] She and Eden divorced in 1959.[4]
She had worked as a barmaid and secretary before meeting Le Mesurier at The Establishment, Peter Cook's comedy club,[6] where she was introduced to Le Mesurier by a mutual acquaintance, Johnny Heawood, in 1963.[7] When his second wife, Hattie Jacques, was in a relationship with another man, Le Me