Valerie Van Ost
Biography
Valerie Van Ost was an English actress who started out as a dancer and, while still at school, became the London Palladium's youngest adult dancer before moving into film and television at 18. She made four Carry On films, among them Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1967) and Carry On Again Doctor (1969), and her other credits ranged from Corruption (1968) and The Smashing Bird I Used to Know (1969) to the Hammer horror The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973). On television she played the dim-witted Penny in a 1967 episode of The Avengers and a year later was considered as a possible replacement for Diana Rigg, and she also appeared in the 1966 Avengers mini-episode The Case of the Missing Corpse and in the ITV series Mrs Thursday. In 1982 she left acting to set up a casting company.
75years old at death
- Born Berkhamsted
- Died Hampshire
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
Movie Career
- Films
- 5
- Career span
- 6 years1967 to 1973
Every film, newest first
- 1973The Satanic Rites of DraculaIMDb rating 5.5
- 1971Blood SuckersIMDb rating 4.0
- 1969The Smashing Bird I Used to KnowIMDb rating 5.0
- 1968CorruptionIMDb rating 5.8
- 1967Carry on PimpernelIMDb rating 6.5
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Robert Hartford-DavisDirector, 3 films, 1968 to 1971
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