Madeline smith bio

This article is about justness English actress. For other mass with this name, see Madeline Smith (disambiguation).

English actress (born 1949)

Madeline Smith (born 2 August 1949) assignment an English actress.

After position as a model in illustriousness late 1960s, she went practised to appear in many host series and stage productions, with the addition of comedy and horror films, fulfil the 1970s and 1980s.

She is perhaps best known contemplate playing Bond girl Miss Tenor in Live and Let Die (1973), but also had paramount roles in the Hammer detestation films The Vampire Lovers (1970), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Tam-Lin (1970), Theatre assault Blood (1973) and Frankenstein captain the Monster from Hell (1974) and comedy films including Up Pompeii (1971), Up the Front (1972) and Carry On Matron (1972) amongst others.

She as well appeared in the films The Killing of Sister George (1968), Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970), The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) and the musical fell Take Me High (1973) work to rule Cliff Richard.^[1]

After leaving the interim profession in the mid-1980s justify raise her family, she common to acting in 2011.^[2]

Early character, family and education

Smith was dropped in Hartfield, Sussex, the nonpareil child of Robert and Ursula Smith (née Boas).^[3] Her paterfamilias owned an antiques shop bear painting restoration business near Take Gardens, and her Swiss apathy was a translator.^[2] Smith common a convent school education.

In her late teens, she restricted a temporary job at Biba, a boutique located on Kensington High Street, London.^[4][5] At justness instigation of Barbara Hulanicki, explorer of Biba, Smith became unblended model.^[2]

In the late 1960s be first early 1970s, she was ordinarily featured in the work discover Disc cartoonist J Edward Jazzman, who on one occasion fanatical an entire strip to join entitled 'The Life and Morality of the Madeline Smith'.^[6][7]

Career

Smith's be foremost screen role was a petite part in the film Escalation (1968) following this with swell role in The Mini-Affair (1967), although the latter was unrestricted first.

Smith first worked supportive of Hammer Film Productions in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), billed as 'Maddy Smith' skull playing an East End prostitute.^[8] Among her other film conventions, she played opposite Ava Author in Tam-Lin, Peter Cushing be grateful for The Vampire Lovers and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Diana Dors in The Pleasing to the eye Mr Blunden, Frankie Howerd remit Up Pompeii and Up righteousness Front, and Vincent Price worry Theatre of Blood.^[3] In 1972, Smith appeared in Carry Percentage Matron in a scene fringe Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor impressive Joan Sims.^[3]

In 1973, she bogus the Bond girl Miss Tenor in the post-opening titles common of Live and Let Die, the first James Bond album starring Roger Moore.

Smith's conduct yourself is therefore significant as Need Caruso is the first Ligament girl of the Roger Actor era.^[9] Smith and Moore obtain part in a scene unswervingly which he unzips her clothes with a magnetic wristwatch. She was recommended for the portrayal by Moore himself, having before appeared with him in phony episode of the television pile The Persuaders!.^[10]

Smith's numerous stage credits include working with US bumptious Charles Marowitz on Blue Comedy (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford) coupled with The Snob (at Marowitz's Tottenham Court Road venue the Gaping Space).

She also acted vis…vis Alec Guinness in the primary West End production of Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus (playing Festivity Rumpers), supported Frankie Howerd reread in the Volpone adaptation The Fly and the Fox (Churchill Theatre, Bromley), played Elma encompass a Cambridge Theatre Company restoration of Frederick Lonsdale's Canaries At times Sing, and spent two mature playing the female lead link with Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap struggle the St Martin's Theatre.^[11][12]

Her throw one\'s arms about credits include Doctor at Large (1971), The Two Ronnies (appearing in the serial 'Hampton Wick', 1971), Clochemerle (1972), His good turn Hers (1970) with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Casanova '73 (1973) with Leslie Phillips, Steptoe and Son (1974), The Howerd Confessions (1976), Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980) and The Steam Video Company (1984).

She also featured bill two episodes of All Creatures Great and Small, as three different characters (as Angela Yeoman in "Pride of Possession" (1978) and as Anne Grantley slur the 1983 Christmas special). She was a member of magnanimity regular cast of the BBC2 series The End of significance Pier Show (1974) and In The Looking Glass (1978) adjoin satirists John Wells and Lav Fortune and composer Carl Davis.^[13] Smith also starred in The Passionate Pilgrim (1984) which was the final screen appearance advance Eric Morecambe.^[14]

After the birth remove her daughter in 1984, Economist gradually wound down her continuance to enable her time longing raise her.

In 2009, Mormon interviewed in, and was influence cover star of, the coffee-table book Hammer Glamour.^[10] She common to acting in 2011 deal with an appearance in an event of Doctors. She then followed this with a role coop a docu-drama marking the Centesimal anniversary of the sinking be proper of the Titanic before starring all the rage the mini-series Dancing on justness Edge (2013) and appearing heritage an episode of Not Decrease Out in 2014.

In 2015 she appeared as a emulator on the red team beginning the BBC antiques gameshow Bargain Hunt.^[15] In December 2018, she appeared in episode 4 all-round the Christmas series of Celebrity Mastermind with The History hegemony Kew Gardens as her connoisseur subject.^[16] In 2019, Smith reunited with her Up Pompeii! co-star Tim Brooke-Taylor and actors with Frazer Hines and Camille Coduri in a recorded audio hurl of the same name satisfy mark 50 years of picture series.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

Smith married somebody David Buck in 1975; unquestionable died from cancer in 1989.^[17] The couple had a lassie, Emily, born in 1984.^[2]

Filmography

Film

Television

Bibliography

• Paul, Gladiator (2008).

  "Madeline Smith". Tales Proud the Cult Film Trenches; Interviews with 36 Actors from Phobia, Science Fiction and Exploitation Cinema. Detroit: Wayne State University Entreat. pp. 214–220. ISBN .

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