Pat Nye

Born into a middle-class family in London in 1908, she was the daughter of Elizabeth Innes Hall (1878–1946) and Ralph Nye (1876–1961), a chartered accountant.

[citation needed] She joined the Women's Royal Naval Service (Wrens) on the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939,[3][4] reaching the rank of Chief Officer and was awarded a military OBE.

She returned to Broadway in 1960 to play Hippobomene in Rape of the Belt and Lysistrata in a revival of George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart at the Martin Beck Theatre.

[1][5][6] Back in the UK, Nye returned to the Theatre Royal in Margate hoping to restore its fortunes, but competition from the newly popular medium of television and dropping visitor numbers led to failure.

[citation needed] Film appearances included the Matron in Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill (1948), Mrs. O'Brien in Rover and Me (1949), Ma Benson in The Adventures of P.C.