Hammer Films

1. Shirley Grey

Born Agnes Zetterstrand in 1902 in the small industrial town of Naugatuck, Connecticut, Grey was the seventh surviving and youngest child of Swedish immigrants. Her life and that of her family was sent into turmoil when her father died suddenly of a heart attack in 1911. Grey's family eventually ...

2. Veronica Rose

Actress | A Cup of Kindness

Veronica Rose was born on July 8, 1911 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for A Cup of Kindness (1934), Turkey Time (1933) and A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933). She died on January 25, 1968 in Headington, Oxford, England, UK.

3. Elsa Tee

Actress | Here Come the Boys

Elsa Tee was born on September 3, 1917 in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Here Come the Boys (1948), Heaven Is Round the Corner (1944) and A Night of Magic (1944). She was married to Ian Drew and Laurence Evelyn Wood Pomeroy (motoring journalist). She died on ...

4. Kay Bannerman

Writer | All for Mary

Kay Bannerman was born on October 11, 1919 in Hove, Essex, England, UK. She was a writer and actress, known for All for Mary (1955), The Swingin' Maiden (1962) and Who Killed Van Loon? (1948). She died on March 31, 1991 in Marbella, Spain.

5. Gillian Maude

Actress | Dick Barton: Special Agent

Gillian Maude was born on November 20, 1912 in Tipperary, Ireland. She was an actress, known for Dick Barton, Detective (1948), Ten Minute Alibi (1946) and Gravelhanger (1954). She was married to Campbell Singer. She died on March 1, 1988 in London, England, UK.

6. Joyce Linden

Actress | Waltz Time

Joyce Linden was born on August 25, 1923 in Kensington, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Waltz Time (1945), Rocky King, Detective (1950) and Dick Barton at Bay (1950). She died in 2002 in Gravesend, Kent, England, UK.

7. Patricia Hicks

Actress | A Midsummer Night's Dream

Patricia Hicks was born on June 10, 1919 in Essex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1946), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1947) and There Is No Escape (1948). She was married to Jack Watling and Sidney Rhys Jones. She died on May 25, 2011 in Colchester, Essex, ...

8. Julia Lang

Actress | The Red Shoes

Julia Lang was born in 1921 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Red Shoes (1948), Little Dorrit (1987) and Date with a Dream (1948). She was married to Alfred Peter Powell and Bill Shine. She died on April 1, 2010 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK.

9. Jeannette Tregarthen

Actress | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre

Jeannette Tregarthen was born on June 18, 1920 in Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), The Only Way (1948) and Holiday Camp (1947). She died in 2010 in Kent, England, UK.

10. Yvonne Owen

Actress | Someone at the Door

Yvonne Owen was born on July 28, 1923 in Finsbury Park, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Someone at the Door (1950), The Seventh Veil (1945) and Third Time Lucky (1949). She was married to Alan Badel. She died in December 1990 in London, England, UK.

11. Merle Tottenham

Actress | The Invisible Man

Merle Tottenham was born on January 22, 1901 in Quetta, India. She was an actress, known for The Invisible Man (1933), Night Must Fall (1937) and Cavalcade (1933). She died on July 18, 1958 in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK.

12. Mercy Haystead

Actress | The Beggar's Opera

Mercy Haystead was born on February 2, 1930 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Beggar's Opera (1953), Dentist on the Job (1961) and Paradise Lagoon (1957). She was married to Anthony (Tony) Gerald Samuel. She died on January 11, 2015.

13. Tamara Desni

Actress | Send for Paul Temple

Tamara Desni was born on October 22, 1910 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Green Finger (1946), Hell's Cargo (1935) and Bypass to Happiness (1934). She was married to Albert Lavagna, Raymond Lovell, Roland Gillett, Bruce Seton and Hans Wilhelm. She died on February 7, 2008 in ...

14. Joy Shelton

Actress | Millions Like Us

Joy Shelton was born on June 3, 1922 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Millions Like Us (1943), Impulse (1954) and The Green Finger (1946). She was married to Sydney Tafler. She died on January 28, 2000 in Surrey, England, UK.

15. Jennifer Jayne

Actress | The Trollenberg Terror

Jennifer Jayne was born on November 14, 1931 in Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for The Crawling Eye (1958), Danger Man (1960) and They Came from Beyond Space (1967). She was married to Peter Mullins. She died on April 23, 2006 in London, England, UK.

16. Marguerite Chapman

Actress | The Seven Year Itch

Marguerite Chapman, a small-town secretary and tomboy nicknamed "Slugger", became a model only after friends insisted "you oughta be in pictures", and she went on to act in more than 30 movies. Never a Hollywood wannabe, Chapman grew up in Chatham, New York, with four brothers. She started working ...

17. Jane Baxter

Actress | Drake of England

A distinguished stage and film actress Jane Baxter was one of the most glamorous performers on the London stage. Winston Churchill, an ardent fan, once described her as, "that charming lady who grace personifies all that is best in British womanhood". Her stage career spanned half a century and she...

18. Julie Somers

Actress | BBC Sunday-Night Theatre

Julie Somers was born on February 26, 1928 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950), Death of an Angel (1952) and Five Names for Johnny (1957). She died on February 7, 2013 in London, England, UK.

19. Kay Kendall

Actress | Les Girls

Kay Kendall was born on May 21, 1927 in Withernsea, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Les Girls (1957), The Reluctant Debutante (1958) and Simon and Laura (1955). She was married to Rex Harrison. She died on September 6, 1959 in London, England, UK.

20. Naomi Chance

Actress | He Who Rides a Tiger

Naomi Chance attended Central School of Drama. After a short period in repertory and on tour she obtained a small screen part and followed this with some starring roles in films opposite some American stars appearing in British films. She became well-known on British TV for her appearances as ...

21. Rosamund John

Actress | Tawny Pipit

A leading British stage and screen actress, Rosamund John is remembered with affection for her roles in film classics such as The Way to the Stars, Green For Danger and Tawny Pipit.

Born in 1913 she grew up in Tottenham, London and studied at the Embassy School of Acting. She made her film debut in ...

22. Lizabeth Scott

Actress | Too Late for Tears

Lizabeth Scott was born Emma Matzo on September 29, 1922 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the oldest of six children of Mary (Pennock) and John Matzo, who were Slovak immigrants. Scott attended Marywood Seminary and the Alvienne School of the Theatre in New York City, where she adopted the stage name of ...

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23. Mary Mackenzie

Actress | The History of Mr. Polly

Mary Mackenzie (3 May 1922 - 20 September 1966) was born in Burnley, Lancashire, where she spent her early years. Although by 1954 she had performed in ten feature films and two BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) episodes, she was known as a radio star. At this time and to publicize her upcoming radio...

24. Lois Maxwell

Actress | Dr. No

Everyone knows (or should know) Lois Maxwell as the one and only "Miss Moneypenny," but there's much more to her acting career than that. She started out against her parents' will, and without their knowledge, in a Canadian children's radio program, credited as "Robin Wells." Before the age of 15 ...

25. Bernadette O'Farrell

Actress | The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan

Although often seen in the St. Trinian's movies, written by Sidney Gilliat and her husband, Frank Launder, it was her role as Maid Marian in the long-running Robin Hood series that catapulted her to stardom. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955) became one of the first British Television programs to ...

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26. Kathleen Byron

Actress | Black Narcissus

Kathleen Byron trained for the stage at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, beginning her work in the movies soon after she finished her training. Her early work with Michael Powell made her name in the UK. She went to Hollywood in the 1940s and 50s but found it difficult to break into the US ...

27. Barbara Payton

Actress | Bride of the Gorilla

One of the saddest tales ever to come out of Hollywood has to be that of Barbara Payton. A blue-eyed, peroxide blonde sexpot who had a lot going for her, her life eventually disintegrated, mostly by her own doing. Things started out well enough for Barbara Lee Redfield, born on November 26, 1927, ...

28. Eva Bartok

Actress | The Crimson Pirate

Eva Bartok was both a beautiful lady and a talented actor whose roots were in classical theater. Her first and only film in Hungary, Mezei próféta (1947) ("Prophet of the Fields"), was banned by communist censorship. Actually her life up to that point had been marked by confusion and ...

29. Mila Parély

Actress | La règle du jeu

Mila Parély was born on October 7, 1917 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for The Rules of the Game (1939), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Le cavalier noir (1945). She was married to Thomas Mathieson and Jean Marais. She died on January 14, 2012 in Vichy, Allier, France.

30. Elsie Albiin

Actress | Klockorna i Gamla sta'n

Elsie Albiin was born on December 17, 1921 in Helsingborg, Skåne län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Klockorna i Gamla sta'n (1946), Crime and Punishment (1945) and Harald Handfaste (1946). She died on April 3, 2009 in Virum, Denmark.

31. Gudrun Ure

Actress | The Million Pound Note

Gudrun Ure was born on March 12, 1926 in Campsie, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for Man with a Million (1954), Garry Halliday (1959) and Armchair Theatre (1956). She was previously married to John Muir Ramsay.

32. Eleanor Summerfield

Actress | Department S

Known for her small yet earthy Brit portrayals on film, Eleanor Summerfield was born in London on March 7, 1921, initially trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (1937). The hard-looking, blue-eyed blonde began in films in 1947 but created some waves first on stage opposite Cicely Courtneidge...

33. Belinda Lee

Actress | La lunga notte del '43

Green-eyed blonde bombshell Belinda Lee was born in Devon, England to florist Stella Mary Graham and hotel owner Robert Esmond Lee on June 15, 1935. Nicknamed "Billie," she was an incredible beauty while still a teen attending the Rookesbury Park Prep School in Hampshire and St. Margaret's boarding...

34. Susan Stephen

Actress | His Excellency

This pert and perky blonde Londoner was born on July 16, 1931. Susan Rennie Stephen took an interest in acting while still a youth and began performing on stage as an adolescent. She also received early training at a dramatic school.

Susan pursued TV roles as early as her late teens and earned major...

35. Bebe Daniels

Actress | 42nd Street

Bebe Daniels already had toured as an actor by the age of four in a stage production of "Richard III". She had her first leading role at the age of seven and started her film career shortly after this in movies for Imperial, Pathe and others. At 14 she was already a film veteran, and was enlisted ...

36. Barbara Lyon

Actress | The Lyons in Paris

Pleasingly pretty Barbara Lyon was the Hollywood-born daughter of popular film couple, Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels but, to millions of British radio listeners, she would forever symbolize the perennial, over-emotive teen -- the "Judy Jetson" of the post-World War II set, as it were. Born on September...

37. Cecile Chevreau

Actress | Saiyûki

Cecile Chevreau was born on April 1, 1917 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Monkey (1978), Spaceways (1953) and Melba (1953). She was married to Jacques B. Brunius. She died in 1993 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK.

38. Thea Gregory

Actress | Satellite in the Sky

Thea Gregory was born in 1926 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Satellite in the Sky (1956), The Golden Link (1954) and Solution by Phone (1954). She was married to John Gregson. She died on December 18, 2022.

39. Paulette Goddard

Actress | The Ghost Breakers

Paulette Goddard was a child model who debuted in "The Ziegfeld Follies" at the age of 13. She gained fame with the show as the girl on the crescent moon, and was married to a wealthy man, Edgar James, by the time she was 17. After her divorce she went to Hollywood in 1931, where she appeared in ...

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40. Maureen Swanson

Actress | Knights of the Round Table

Maureen Swanson was born on November 25, 1932 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Knights of the Round Table (1953), Robbery Under Arms (1957) and Moulin Rouge (1952). She was married to William Humble David Ward, 4th Earl of Dudley. She died on November 16, 2011 in the UK.

41. Simone Silva

Actress | Escape by Night

Simone Silva was born Martha Simone de Bouillard in Cairo, Egypt. Her parents were French and Italian. At the age of eighteen she married Cecil Silver, a wealthy businessman, and moved to England. Simone started her career modeling for sexy pin-up photos. In 1950 she made her film debut in the ...

42. Eileen Moore

Actress | An Inspector Calls

Eileen Moore was born in August 1932 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for An Inspector Calls (1954), The Green Man (1956) and Les Misérables (1967). She has been married to Michael Anthony Owens since 1968. She was previously married to George Cole.

43. Mari Aldon

Actress | Distant Drums

A former ballet dancer, graceful Mari Aldon married Hollywood director Tay Garnett, who encouraged her to become an actress. She did, but did not leave a deep imprint on film history, with one exception, the role of Judy Beckett, a prisoner of the Seminoles and Gary Cooper's charming romantic ...

44. Honor Blackman

Actress | Goldfinger

One of four children, Blackman was born in London's East End, to Edith Eliza (Stokes), a homemaker, and Frederick Thomas Blackman, a statistician employed with the Civil Service. She received elocution lessons for her 16th birthday (at her own request), and later attended the Guildhall School of ...

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45. Margia Dean

Actress | The Quatermass Xperiment

Stunning, dark-haired '40s and '50s leading lady Margia Dean was the daughter of a Greek lawyer. Her parents moved from Athens to the US in 1913, a number of years before her birth on April 7, 1922, in Chicago, Illinois. The youngest of three girls, she was christened Marguerite Louise Skliris. Her...

46. Alma Cogan

Soundtrack | Tank 432

Alma Cogan was born on May 19, 1932 in Whitechapel, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Tank 432 (2015), The End of the F***ing World (2017) and En aftenstund med - (1965). She died on October 26, 1966 in London, England, UK.

47. Joan Regan

Actress | Hello London

Joan Regan was born on January 19, 1928 in Romford, Essex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Hello London (1958), A Prize of Gold (1955) and The Spaniard's Curse (1958). She was married to Martin Cowan, Harry Claff and Dick Howell. She died on September 12, 2013 in Kent, England, UK.

48. Beverly Michaels

Actress | Wicked Woman

Beverly Michaels was born on December 28, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Wicked Woman (1953), East Side, West Side (1949) and Blonde Bait (1956). She was married to Russell Rouse and Voldemar Vetluguin. She died on June 9, 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.

49. Joan Rice

Actress | The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

Joan Rice was born on February 3, 1930 in Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men (1952), His Majesty O'Keefe (1954) and I Promised to Pay (1961). She was married to Ken McKenzie and David Green. She died on January 1, 1997 in ...

50. Hazel Court

Actress | The Curse of Frankenstein

Born in Birmingham, England, Hazel Court carried on a love affair with the world of movies and make-believe that made her a leading student at her hometown's School of Drama and later helped her land a contract with the J. Arthur Rank Organisation. Graduating from bits to supporting roles to leads,...

51. Diane Hart

Actress | The Pickwick Papers

Diane Hart was born on July 20, 1926 in Bedford, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Pickwick Papers (1952), One Jump Ahead (1955) and My Wife's Family (1956). She was married to Kenneth MacLeod. She died on February 7, 2002 in London, England, UK.

52. Maureen Connell

Actress | Kill Her Gently

Maureen Connell was born on August 2, 1931 in Nairobi, Kenya. She is an actress, known for Kill Her Gently (1957), Lucky Jim (1957) and ITV Television Playhouse (1955).

53. Constance Fraser

Actress | The Appleyards

Constance Fraser was born on December 5, 1904 in Balham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Appleyards (1952), A Lady Mislaid (1958) and The Spaniard's Curse (1958). She died on April 27, 1973 in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK.

54. Melissa Stribling

Actress | Dracula

Melissa Stribling was a Scottish actress from the seaside resort of Gourock. Her best known role was playing Mina Holmwood in "Dracula" (1958), based on the novel's Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray. Her version of Mina was depicted as a sexually frustrated housewife, who seems pleased with her encounters ...

55. Eunice Gayson

Actress | Dr. No

Eunice Gayson was an English actress best known for playing Sylvia Trench, James Bond's girlfriend in the first two Bond films (Dr. No and From Russia with Love). Originally, Gayson was to be cast as Miss Moneypenny, but that part went to Lois Maxwell instead.

Gayson was originally to have been a ...

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56. Betta St. John

Actress | The City of the Dead

Born in Hawthorne, California (Los Angeles area) on November 26, 1929, the former Betty Jean Striegler was part of the Meglin Kiddies troupe as a child and entered pictures in her adolescent years. Betta made her film debut at age 10 with an unbilled role of a little girl who sings Marlene Dietrich...

57. Mandy Miller

Actress | Child in the House

The sensitive-looking British child star of the fifties was born Carmen Isabella Miller in 1944 but affectionately called "Mandy" practically from birth. Her father, a BBC Radio producer, took Mandy (then age 6) and her older sister, Jan Miller to watch a film being made at Ealing Studios. Instead ...

58. Shirley Eaton

Actress | Goldfinger

Long before Bea Arthur, Estelle Getty and company showed up in 1980s TV households, Hollywood had, in effect, its own original "Golden Girl"...literally...in the form of stunning British actress Shirley Eaton. Although she found definitive cult stardom in 1964 with her final golden moment in a ...

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59. Helen Westcott

Actress | Adventures of Don Juan

Born January 1, 1928, to acting parents, Helen Westcott's show biz career began at the ripe old age of 4 when she performed on stage with her vaudevillian mother who played piano and drums. Her father was handsome Warner Bros. actor Gordon Westcott who appeared in second leads opposite a number of ...

60. Vera Day

Actress | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

A highly photogenic blonde starlet of the 1950s, petite, buxom Vera Day was once touted as Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe. Having dropped out of school at the age of 15, she had tried her hand in retail and hospitality before finding steadier employment as a beauty parlour assistant and ...

61. Martine Carol

Actress | Lola Montès

France's major sex siren of the early 50s, this lesser-remembered post-war French dish pre-dated bombshell Brigitte Bardot by a few years. Martine was born Marie-Louise (Maryse) Jeanne Nicholle Mourer on May 16, 1920, but little is known of her childhood. A chance meeting with comedian André Luguet...

62. Marla Landi

Actress | The Hound of the Baskervilles

Marla Landi was born on April 16, 1933 in Torino, Italy. She is an actress, known for The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959), The Pirates of Blood River (1962) and Danger Man (1960).

63. Yvonne Furneaux

Actress | Repulsion

Eclectic is the qualificative that best defines the career of Yvonne Furneaux. Born in Roubaix (a big industrial town in the North of France) in 1926, the little girl was immediately placed under the sign of bilingualism, her father being English and her mother French. As a result, once this ...

64. Maudie Edwards

Actress | My Learned Friend

Maudie Edwards was born on October 16, 1906 in Neath, Glamorgan, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for My Learned Friend (1943), I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945) and Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945). She was married to Walter Galpin Nicholas-Marcy. She died on March 24, 1991 in London, England, ...

65. Nadja Regin

Actress | From Russia with Love

This cosmopolitan actress is best remembered for appearing as different characters in two early James Bond films. Multilingual Nadezda "Nadja" Poderegin hailed from Kraljevo, a town in present day Serbia (then Yugoslavia). Her father, a Ukrainian-born scientist and lecturer, was killed during World...

66. Maxine Audley

Actress | Peeping Tom

Maxine Audley was born on April 29, 1923 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Peeping Tom (1960), Prime Suspect (1991) and The Vikings (1958). She was married to Leo Maguire, Frederick Granville (né Manfred Gottlieb), Leonard Cassini and Andrew Broughton. She died on July 23, 1992 ...

67. Yvonne Monlaur

Actress | The Brides of Dracula

Yvonne Thérèse Marie Camille Bedat de Monlaur was born in France, the daughter of a French poet and a Russian ballerina and pianist. As a youngster she was trained for ballet and in her late teens worked as a model for Elle fashion magazine. By the mid-1950's, she also began appearing in French and...

68. Martita Hunt

Actress | Great Expectations

Popular British character actress known for her rich cluster of queens, dowagers, shrews and evildoers, Martita Hunt was born on a ranch in Argentina to British parents, but moved with her family to England at age 10 for her formal education. On stage at age 21 with the Liverpool Repertory Theatre,...

69. Dawn Addams

Actress | The Hour of 13

Dawn Addams was born in Felixstowe, East Suffolk, England, the daughter of Captain James Ramage Addams, an R.A.F. officer. Much of her childhood was spent in Calcutta, India, where her father was stationed, and she later attended schools in England and California. Though Dawn took her first screen ...

70. Diane Cilento

Actress | The Wicker Man

Diane Cilento was an Australian actress from Queensland. She had partial Italian descent. She was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. For a theatrical role as Helen of Troy, Cilento was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

In 1932, Cilento ...

71. Françoise Rosay

Actress | La kermesse héroïque

Françoise Rosay was born on April 19, 1891 in Paris, France. She was an actress and writer, known for Carnival in Flanders (1935), The Halfway House (1944) and Le petit café (1931). She was married to Jacques Feyder. She died on March 28, 1974 in Montgeron, Essonne, France.

72. Athene Seyler

Actress | Drake of England

Athene Seyler was born on May 31, 1889 in Hackney, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Drake the Pirate (1935), Curse of the Demon (1957) and The Franchise Affair (1951). She was married to Nicholas Hannen and James Bury Sterndale-Bennett. She died on September 12, 1990 in ...

73. Lisa Gastoni

Actress | Svegliati e uccidi

Diminutive Irish-Italian Lisa Gastoni began her acting career in Britain after her family settled there in 1948. Though she had initially wanted to be an architect, she changed her mind and became a model and then an actress, making her debut screen appearance in 1954. She appeared mostly in ...

74. Marne Maitland

Actor | The Man with the Golden Gun

Distinctive character actor, born in Calcutta and educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge. His acting career was interrupted by wartime service (for six years) in the British Army. He then joined the Old Vic Company and subsequently appeared on screen. With his hooked nose and furtive eyes, he ...

75. Susan Strasberg

Actress | Picnic

Susan Strasberg was born in New York City on May 22, 1938. From the time of her birth, she was destined to be an actress, as her father was Lee Strasberg, acting coach at the famed Actors Studio in New York. In 1953, Susan made her acting debut in the episode Goodyear Playhouse: Catch a Falling Star...

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76. Ann Todd

Actress | The Paradine Case

Ann Todd was a beautiful English actress best known as Gregory Peck's wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947). Her third husband was the legendary director David Lean, for whom she appeared in three films, The Passionate Friends (1949), Madeleine (1950), and The Sound Barrier (1952).

77. Catherine Feller

Actress | The Little World of Don Camillo

Catherine Feller spent her early childhood in Italy. At the age of eleven, she moved to England after her parents separated and studied at the Aida Foster Theatre School for drama, dance and education. Following her graduation, she began her career as a fashion model in 1954. A year later, she made...

78. Yvonne Romain

Actress | Corridors of Blood

Yvonne Romain was born on February 17, 1938 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Corridors of Blood (1958), Double Trouble (1967) and The Swinger (1966). She was previously married to Leslie Bricusse.

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79. Barbara Shelley

Actress | Quatermass and the Pit

The sexy Barbara Shelley was born Barbara Kowin on February 13, 1932 in London, England. With her beautiful looks and stature, she worked as a model during her salad days. Her film career began in Italy in the mid-1950s in such tempting fare as Luna nova (1955) and Nero's Mistress (1956), but when ...

80. Freda Jackson

Actress | Clash of the Titans

Freda Jackson was born in Nottingham, England in 1908, the daughter of a railway porter. After studying at High Pavement School and the University College there, she became a schoolteacher but gave up her career to study acting at the Royal College of Art, in London. Her first professional stage ...

81. Liz Fraser

Actress | I'm All Right Jack

Best known for playing the perpetually-ditzy blonde bimbo in several installments of the "Carry On" franchise, buxom Liz Fraser (born Elizabeth Joan Winch above a corner shop in south London) studied at RADA on a scholarship and first acted in repertory theatre and television before breaking into ...

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82. Heather Sears

Actress | The Story of Esther Costello

Heather Sears was born on September 28, 1935 in Whitechapel, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Story of Esther Costello (1957), Room at the Top (1958) and The Phantom of the Opera (1962). She was married to Anthony Masters. She died on January 3, 1994 in Hinchley Wood, Esher, ...

83. Shirley Anne Field

Actress | The Damned

Shirley Anne Field was one of Britain's most highly respected actresses. She starred opposite Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Steve McQueen, Michael Caine, Daniel Day-Lewis and Ned Beatty in such classic films as The Entertainer, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The War Lover, Alfie, My ...

84. Viveca Lindfors

Actress | Creepshow

Ms. Lindfors was a Swedish-born actress whose stage and screen career in the U.S. and Sweden spanned more than half a century. She was brought to Hollywood in 1946 by Warner Brothers in the hope that she would be a new Greta Garbo or Ingrid Bergman. She appeared with Ronald Reagan in her first ...

85. Janette Scott

Actress | No Highway in the Sky

Janette Scott was born on December 14, 1938 in Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for No Highway in the Sky (1951), The Day of the Triffids (1963) and Crack in the World (1965). She has been married to William John Rademaekers since April 7, 1981. She was ...

86. Nadia Gray

Actress | La dolce vita

Born Nadia Kujnir-Herescu in Bucharest, Romania, on November 23, 1923, to a Russian father and a Bessarabian mother, the future actress Nadia Gray was raised there. She met first husband Constantin Cantacuzino (1905-1958), a Romanian aviator and noted WWII fighter ace, while she was a passenger on ...

87. Liliane Brousse

Actress | Amours célèbres

Liliane Brousse was born in 1937 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France. She is an actress, known for Famous Love Affairs (1961), The Parisienne and the Prudes (1964) and Maniac (1963).

88. Jennifer Daniel

Actress | Wuthering Heights

Blonde Welsh leading actress who spent the majority of her career working in television. Her rare forays to the big screen resulted in two of the more intense heroines inhabiting the world of Hammer horror in the 60's. On both occasions she appeared opposite Noel Willman: as one of his victims in ...

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89. June Thorburn

Actress | The Pickwick Papers

June Thorburn was born on June 8, 1931 in Karachi, India. She was an actress, known for The Pickwick Papers (1952), Orders Are Orders (1954) and Fast and Loose (1954). She was married to Morten Smith-Petersen and Aldon Richard Bryse-Harvey. She died on November 4, 1967 in West Sussex, England, UK.

90. Janette Scott

Actress | No Highway in the Sky

Janette Scott was born on December 14, 1938 in Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for No Highway in the Sky (1951), The Day of the Triffids (1963) and Crack in the World (1965). She has been married to William John Rademaekers since April 7, 1981. She was ...

91. Moira Redmond

Actress | A Shot in the Dark

Moira Redmond was born on July 14, 1928 in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for A Shot in the Dark (1964), Melissa (1974) and The Winter's Tale (1967). She was married to Herbert Wise and Anthony Hughes. She died on March 16, 2006 in London, England, UK.

92. Jennie Linden

Actress | Women in Love

Jennie Linden was born on December 8, 1939 in Worthing, Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Women in Love (1969), Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) and Dick Turpin (1979). She has been married to Chris Mann since 1962. They have one child.

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93. Brenda Bruce

Actress | Peeping Tom

Brenda Bruce was born on July 7, 1919 in Prestwich, Lancashire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Peeping Tom (1960), Little Dorrit (1987) and The Final Test (1953). She was married to Clement McCallin and Roy Rich. She died on February 19, 1996 in London, England, UK.

94. Tallulah Bankhead

Actress | Lifeboat

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was born on January 31, 1902 in Huntsville, Alabama. Her father was a mover and shaker in the Democratic Party who served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from June 4, 1936, to September 16, 1940. Tallulah had been interested in acting and, at age ...

95. Stefanie Powers

Actress | Hart to Hart

Stefanie Powers began her career as a teenager dancing for the Michele Paniaff Ballet Company and Jerome Robbins. At 16 she was put under contract to Columbia Pictures in the twilight of the Hollywood Studio System where she made 15 motion pictures and was loaned to United Artists for the John Wayne...

96. Ursula Andress

Actress | Dr. No

The quintessential jet-set Euro starlet, Ursula Andress was born in the Swiss canton of Berne on March 19, 1936, one of six children in a strict German Protestant family. Although often seeming icily aloof, a restless streak early demonstrated itself in her personality, and she had an impetuous ...

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97. Bette Davis

Actress | All About Eve

Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but...

98. Wendy Craig

Actress | The Nanny

Her parents, George and Anne were originally farmers in the Sacriston area of County Durham where she started her education at a village school and eventually attended Durham High School. Her family eventually gave up farming and became haulage contractors in Darlington where she then attended ...

99. Jill Bennett

Actress | The Nanny

Jill Bennett was born on December 24, 1931 in Penang, Malaysia. She was an actress and writer, known for The Nanny (1965), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Moulin Rouge (1952). She was married to John Osborne and Willis Hall. She died on October 4, 1990 in Kensington, London, England, UK.

100. Diane Clare

Actress | The Haunting

Diane Clare was born on July 8, 1938 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Haunting (1963), Persuasion (1960) and The Reluctant Debutante (1958). She was married to Barry England. She died on June 21, 2013 in the UK.