Yahoo Home

Joan Le Mesurier, wife of the Dad’s Army star John Le Mesurier who had a turbulent affair with Tony Hancock – obituary

• Joan Le Mesurier, who has died aged 90, was a vivacious divorcee in 1960s London but cast as a femme fatale when she married the actor John Le Mesurier and embarked on a notorious affair with his best friend, the comedian Tony Hancock, which ended with his suicide in Australia. She had only been married to John Le Mesurier for six months when she took up with Hancock in 1966. Le Mesurier was a popular character actor, familiar from many 1950s British film comedies, who was about to find lasting