Imogen Hassall

Imogen Hassall was an English actress whose career took in 33 films across the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Woking, she trained at Elmhurst Ballet School and the Royal Ballet School before studying at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in London, then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company for a season. In 1964 she took a part in The Reluctant Peer, a comedy staged at the Duchess Theatre. She went on to appear in British television adventure series of that decade. Her first significant film part was Tara in The Long Duel (1967). Wider notice came when she appeared in When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) as a dominant cave-girl. That same year she had substantial parts in Carry On Loving and in Incense for the Damned, a cult horror film. In 1973 she appeared in White Cargo. She died in 1980.