Hazel Court
Biography
Hazel Court was an English actress who appeared in horror movies made in Britain and America in the 1950s and early 1960s. Born in Handsworth, Birmingham, she met director Anthony Asquith in London at sixteen and gained a small part in Champagne Charlie (1944). She won a British Critics Award for playing a disabled girl in Carnival (1946). After training at the Rank Organisation's charm school, she took a career-defining role in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), the first color Hammer horror. She also appeared in The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) and three Roger Corman adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe: The Premature Burial (1962), The Raven (1963) and The Masque of the Red Death (1964). Her films included Ghost Ship (1952) and Devil Girl from Mars (1954). On television she co-starred in the sitcom Dick and the Duchess, appeared in four episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and guest-starred in many series. She was a painter and sculptor.
82years old at death
- Born Sutton Coldfield
- Died Alpine Meadows
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
Movie Career
- Films
- 9
- Career span
- 17 years1947 to 1964
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First role
Court was sixteen when she met the film director Anthony Asquith in London. That meeting led to a small role for her in Champagne Charlie, released in 1944.
Early training
Court received training at the Rank Organisation's charm school. In 1957 she landed what became a career-defining part in The Curse of Frankenstein, the first color Hammer Horror film.
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Roger Corman directed three of these films, Terence Fisher two. Six actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Middleton Woods2 films together, 1957 to 1959
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Paul Hardtmuth's page
All films by Roger Corman
Terence FisherDirector, 2 films, 1957 to 1959
All films by Terence Fisher
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