Patricia Noel Driscoll[British Film and Television Year Book, Volume 9 (1959), pg. 80] (17 December 1927 – 2 January 2020) was a British and Irish actress, who has appeared both on television and in films.Brian McFarlane (Ed): The Encyclopedia of British Film (BFI/Methuen • London • 2003) p397 [with Lamont, Duncan]Picture Show Who's Who on the Screen (Amalgamated Press • London) p40
Television work Trained as an actress at RADA, 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. 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. Her place in Picture Book was taken by Vera McKechnie in a further series in 1962–63.
Driscoll’s other numerous television appearances included: The Vise (1958), Hawaiian Eye (1959), Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse: Murder in Gratitude (1959), Danger Man (1961 and 1964), Second Time Around (six episodes, 1974), The Good Life (1977), Kidnapped (1978), and Into the Labyrinth (1981).
Filmography Year Film Role Director Other players 1955 Timeslip (U.S. title The Atomic Man) X-ray assistant Ken Hughes Gene Nelson 1956 Charley Moon Rose Guy Hamilton Max Bygraves 1958 Dial 999 episode "Fashions in Crime" Det. Sgt. Ann Hawkins Terence Fisher Zena Marshall 1959 A Woman's Temptation Betty Godfrey Grayson Robert Ayres 1959 The Child and the Killer Peggy Max Varnel Robert Arden 1960 The Wackiest Ship in the Army Maggie Richard Murphy 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.Probate Record: LAMONT, Patricia NoelEquity Magazine, Spring/Summer 2021, In Memoriam Part 1
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