Valerie French

Valerie French was an English actress who worked in film and on the stage from 1954. Born in London, she dated her stage beginnings to the Theatre Royal in Windsor, Berkshire. She turned to movies in her early twenties, taking a small part in the Italian production Maddalena and then appearing in the British film The Constant Husband before moving to Hollywood. She was best remembered for westerns, including Jubal (1956) with Glenn Ford and Decision at Sundown (1957) opposite Randolph Scott, and in the science fiction movie The 27th Day (1957). Her television work took in episodes of Have Gun Will Travel, The Prisoner and Trackdown, and later daytime shows such as The Edge of Night and The Nurses. In the 1960s she went back to the stage, appearing in a Broadway production of Inadmissible Evidence in 1965, in Help Stamp Out Marriage! in 1966 and at the Booth Theatre in The Mother Lover in 1969.