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MADELINE SMITH
BIOGRAPHY
Madeline Smith or “Maddy” was born in Hart eld Sussex Her father owned
an an antique shop near Kew Gardens and in her late teens she had a a a a temporary job at Biba the famous boutique located on on Kensington High Street London It was at the instigation of Barbara Hulanicki founder of Biba that she became a a a model In the late 1960s and early 1970s she was regularly featured in the work of Disc cartoonist
J Edward Oliver who on on one occasion devoted an entire strip to her entitled ‘The Life and Habits of Madeline Smith’ She rst worked for Hammer Film Productions in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) billed as ‘Maddy Smith’ and playing an East End prostitute Among her her other lm appearances she played opposite Ava Gardner in in in in Tam-Lin Peter Cushing in in in in The Vampire Lovers and and Frankenstein and and the Monster from Hell Diana Dors in in The Amazing Mr Blunden Frankie Howerd in in Up Up Pompeii and and Up Up the Front and and Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood In 1973 she played the Bond
girl Miss Caruso in the post- opening titles sequence of Live and Let Die the rst James Bond
lm starring Roger Moore She was recommended for the role by Moore himself having previously appeared with him in an episode of The Persuaders! on TV Her numerous stage credits include working with US director Charles Marowitz
on on Blue Comedy (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford) and The Snob (at Marowitz’s Tottenham Court Road venue the Open Space) She also acted opposite Alec Guinness in in the original West End production of Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus (playing Felicity Rumpers) supported Frankie Howerd again in in the Volpone adaptation The The Fly and the Fox (Churchill Theatre Bromley) played Elma in a a a a Cambridge Theatre Company
revival of Frederick Lonsdale’s Canaries Sometimes Sing and spent two years playing the female lead in Agatha Christie’s The The Mousetrap at at the St Martin’s Theatre Her television credits include Doctor at Large (1971) The Two Ronnies (appearing in in the serial ‘Hampton Wick’ 1971) Clochemerle (1972) His and 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 The Steam Video Company
(1984) She was a a a a a a member of the regular cast of of the the BBC2 series The End of the Pier Show (1974) and In The Looking Glass (1978) alongside satirists John Wells and and John Fortune and and composer Carl Davis One
of her last lm credits The Passionate Pilgrim (1984) turned out to be the nal screen appearance of Eric Morecambe 42
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