Patricia Hayes OBE (born Patricia Lawlor Hayes) (December 22, 1909 – September 19, 1998) was an English comedy actress of Irish Catholic extraction.
Hayes was born in Camberwell, London. As a child Hayes attended Sacred Heart School in Wandsworth, London.
She was featured in many comedy shows and films between 1940 and 1996, including Hancock's Half Hour, The Arthur Askey Show, The Benny Hill Show, Till Death Us Do Part, The Neverending Story and a A Fish Called Wanda.
Hayes also featured as Fin Raziel in the George Lucas film Willow (film).
Her most famous TV appearance was in the title role of the 1971 TV Play Edna, the Inebriate Woman for which she won a BAFTA award.
She is the mother of British actor Richard O'Callaghan (born Richard Brooke) by her marriage to the late Valentine Brooke, whom she divorced. She never remarried.
She was formerly the head of the (British) Catholic Stage Guild, which her son, Richard, now chairs.
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Willow is a 1988 fantasy film directed by Ron Howard, based on a story by George Lucas.George Lucas originally planned to film an adaptation of The Hobbit.[citation needed] Unable to secure the rights, he wrote Willow, which shares many similarities with J.R.R. Tolkien's celebrated novel and its sequel, The Lord of the Rings.The film was notable for employing more dwarfs than any production in many years, and was widely praised by the "little person" community for employing Warwick Davis as the lead. The film also used morphing special effects to transform an old sorceress into various animals, a revolutionary effect for the time.As an interesting sidenote, the two-headed monster in the film, the Eborsisk, was named as a reference to popular movie critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel; the villainous General Kael was also named for a critic, noted journalist Pauline Kael.Filming action scenes in the snow of a New Zealand winter prompted Val Kilmer to remark that he wished his wardrobe...
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The NeverEnding Story (German: Die Unendliche Geschichte) is the 1984 film adaptation of the German fantasy novel by Michael Ende. The production was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and starred Barret Oliver as Bastian Balthazar Bux (named only "Bastian Bux" in the movie), Noah Hathaway as Atreyu, and Tami Stronach as The Childlike Empress.
Bastian (Barret Oliver) is a young boy and a frequent daydreamer, much to the dismay of his father (Gerald McRaney). On his was to school he is spotted by three bullies. To avoid them he hides in a dumpster in an alley. When he emerges from the container, he runs into a nearby bookstore to avoid the bullies after being spotted again. He meets an old man , Mr. Koreander, reading a book. When Bastian asks to read the book ("The Neverending Story"), the man replies that the book is "not safe". Ignoring his warnings, Bastian borrows the book without telling Mr. Koreander and heads for school, only to realize he is late for class. He heads upstairs...,
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