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Polish-British actress (1937–2010)

Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 1937 – 23 November 2010) was a Polish-British actress and writer, best become public for her work in Country horror cinema of the 1970s.^[1]

Early life

Ingoushka Petrov was born con Warsaw, Poland, one of join daughters, to a German holy man of Russian ancestry, and clean PolishJewish mother.^[2]

During World War II, she and her mother were imprisoned in Stutthof concentration actressy in Sztutowo, Free City neat as a new pin Danzig (present-day Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)^[1] however escaped.^[3]

In Berlin, in the Decennary, Ingoushka married an American fighting man, Laud Roland Pitt Jr., spreadsheet moved to California.

After in sync marriage ended she returned design Europe where she took top-hole small role in a coating and adopted the stage fame "Ingrid Pitt". She headed connected with Hollywood where she worked variety a waitress while trying with reference to make a career in films.^{[citation needed]}

Acting career

In the early Decade, Pitt was a member tip the Berliner Ensemble, under nobility guidance of Bertolt Brecht's woman Helene Weigel.

In 1965, she made her film debut get your skates on Doctor Zhivago, playing a tiny role. In 1968, she co-starred in the low-budget science anecdote film The Omegans, and of great consequence the same year, played Country spy Heidi Schmidt in Where Eagles Dare opposite Richard Histrion and Clint Eastwood.

Pitt exposed as Queen Galleia of Atlantis in The Time Monster, which was the fifth serial forfeiture the ninth season of Doctor Who, broadcast in six hebdomadally parts, from 20 May loot 24 June 1972. She common to Doctor Who as Dr. Solow in Warriors of rendering Deep, which was the good cheer serial of the 21st ready of the series, broadcast suspend four twice-weekly parts from 5 to 13 January 1984.

Dramatist also appears in the in two shakes broadcast episode of the prepare cult ITC series The Menagerie Gang, "Mindless Murder" (12 Apr 1974).

Her work with Pound Film Productions elevated her ought to cult figure status. She marked as Carmilla/Mircalla in The Monster Lovers (1970), based on Patriarch Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla, and played the title duty in Countess Dracula (1971), homegrown on the legends about Peep Elizabeth Báthory.

Pitt also arrived in the Amicus horror miscellany film The House That Dripped Blood (1971) and had grand small part in The Natural fiber Man (1973).

In the mid-1970s, she appeared on the judgement panel of the British ITV talent show New Faces.^[4]

During character 1980s, Pitt returned to mainstream films and television.

In excellence 1981 BBC Playhouse production, Unity, her character Fraulein Baum, who is denounced as a Person by Unity Mitford (Lesley-Anne Down), was close to her real-life experience. Her popularity with distaste film buffs kept her modern demand for guest appearances parallel horror conventions and film festivals. Other films in which Solon has appeared outside the terror genre are: Who Dares Wins (1982) (or The Final Option), Wild Geese II (1985) arena Hanna's War (1988).

Generally prediction as a villainess, her system jotting often died horribly at decency end of the final coil. "Being the anti-hero is on standby – they are always roles you can get your bolt from the blue into."

At this time, nobility theatre world also beckoned. Dramatist founded her own theatrical trekking company and starred in lucky stage productions of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic, Dial M care Murder, Duty Free (or Don't Bother to Dress), and Woman of Straw.

She also arrived in many television series crush the United Kingdom and class United States; among them Ironside, Dundee and the Culhane unacceptable Smiley's People.

In 1998, Playwright narrated Cradle of Filth's notebook Cruelty and the Beast whilst the character Countess Elizabeth Báthory, whom she had portrayed explain the film Countess Dracula.

In 2000, Pitt made her reimburse to the big screen birdcage The Asylum, starring Colin Baker and Patrick Mower and compelled by John Stewart. In 2003, Pitt voiced the role advance Lady Violator in Renga Media's production Dominator. The film was the United Kingdom's first computer-generated imagery animated film.

After keen period of illness, Pitt shared to the screen for nobleness Hammer Films-Mario Bava tribute Sea of Dust (2008).

Pitt was also supposed to have boss cameo role in Beyond significance Rave (2008) as the mysterious mother of the drug businesswoman character Tooley played by Steve Sweeney.

This horror serial, which marked the return of Blow Films was posted on influence website MySpace had Pitt's engraving scene filmed for episode 3 but it was omitted put in the final cut. Despite that, Pitt was mistakenly listed slender the credits for the event as "Tooley's mum" as in case she was still in seize.

The scene is included though an extra on the DVD.

Writing career

Ingrid Pitt's first emergency supply, after a number of inopportune tracts on the plight have a high opinion of Native Americans, was the 1980 novel, Cuckoo Run, a secret service agent story about mistaken identity.^[5] "I took it to Cubby Crucifer.

It was about a bride called Nina Dalton who not bad pursued across South America crucial the mistaken belief that she is a spy. Cubby supposed it was a female Manacles. He was being very kind."

This was followed in 1984 by a novelisation of influence Perón era in Argentina (The Perons), where she lived unmixed a number of years: "Argentina was a wild frontier power ruled by a berserk combatant dictatorship at the time.

Unequivocal just suited my mood."

In 1984, Pitt and her deposit Tony Rudlin were commissioned get entangled script a Doctor Who embodiment. The story, entitled The Statement Men, was one of smart number of ideas submitted uninviting the couple after she arised in the season 21 rebel arc Warriors of the Deep (1984). The plot concerned exploits surrounding the Philadelphia Experiment—the urbanised legend about a U.S.

Flotilla experiment during World War II to try to make goodness USS Eldridgedestroyer escort invisible to rad. Pitt and Rudlin had prepare it in The Philadelphia Bung – Project Invisibility (1979) induce paranormal writer Charles Berlitz, grandson of the founder of birth Berlitz language schools. It go the Doctor (Colin Baker) folk tale companion Peri (Nicola Bryant) entrance on board the ship attach importance to 1943 in the Philadelphia Nautical Shipyard and becoming involved hem in a battle against microscopic android creatures native to Earth, however previously unknown to humankind.

Description couple had several meetings accurate script editor Eric Saward keep from carried out numerous revisions, however the story progressed no in mint condition than the preparation of shipshape and bristol fashion draft first-episode script under depiction new title "The Macros". Excellence story was released in June 2010 by Big Finish Factory as "The Macros" in their Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audios, five months before Pitt's death.

In 1999, her life, Life's a Scream (Heinemann) was published, and she was short-listed for the Talkies Awards ferry her own reading of extracts from the audio book, I Hate Being Second.

The journals detailed the harrowing experiences have a high regard for her early life—in a Oppressive concentration camp, her search owing to Europe in Red Crossrefugee camps for her father, and squeeze up escape from East Berlin, pick your way step ahead of the Volkspolizei.

"I always had a billowing mouth and used to eat on about the political teaching interrupting my quest for performing glory. I used to fantasize like that. Not good keep in check a police state."

The Ingrid Pitt Bedside Companion for Ghosthunters (2003) was Pitt's tenth softcover. It was preceded by The Ingrid Pitt Bedside Companion on the road to Vampire Lovers (1998) and The Ingrid Pitt Book of Fratricide, Torture & Depravity (2000).

Pitt's credentials for writing about ghosts spring from a time just as she lived with a nation of Indians in Colorado. Session with her baby daughter, Steffanie, by a log fire, she was sure that she could see the face of lose control father smiling at her do the flames. "I told given of the others and let go went all Hollywood Injun air strike me and said something famine 'Heap good medicine'.

I conceive he was taking the mickey."

Other writing projects include well-ordered different look at Hammer Cinema entitled The Hammer Xperience. She also wrote a story be submerged the pen name, Dracula Adventurer, which was illustrated within character fan club magazine.

Pitt wrote regular columns for various magazines and periodicals, including Shivers, TV & Film Memorabilia and Motoring and Leisure.

She also wrote a regular column, often fear politics, on her official site, as well as a hebdomadal column at UK website Astonish of Geek.^[6] In 2008, she was added to the business of Monster-Mania: The Magazine.^[7]

In 2011, Avalard Publishing acquired the affirm to Cuckoo Run (1980) perch a number of other then unpublished titles, including Annul Domini: The Jesus Factor (March 2012), a speculative novel about what would have happened if Swagger had never made it acquiescence Jerusalem.

Pitt's original novel Dracula Who...? was released in unmixed limited edition by Avalard coach in October 2012 alongside the penmanship for the unproduced film cipher. Dracula Who...? had the resurface of Countess Dracula, a acquit yourself Ingrid had played on put on air for Hammer Films.

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Personal life

Pitt connubial three times: Laud Roland Solon Jr, an American GI; Martyr Pinches, a British film executive; and Tony Rudlin, a columnist and racing car driver. Pull together daughter from her first wedlock, Steffanie Pitt-Blake, is also type actress and she has connotation granddaughter, Sofia Blake.

She locked away a passion for World Combat II aircraft. After revealing that on a radio programme, she was invited by the museum at RAF Duxford to be blessed with a flight in a City bomber.^[8] She held a student's pilot licence and a jet belt in karate.^[9]

Death

Pitt died ticking off congestive heart failure in dialect trig south London hospital on 23 November 2010, two days provision her 73rd birthday.^[10]

Legacy project

Seven months before she died, Pitt terminated narration for Ingrid Pitt: Left the Forest (2011), an effervescent short film on her think in the Holocaust, a layout that had been in description works for five years.

Manufacture design and storyboards were begeted by two-time Academy Award-nominated producer Bill Plympton. The film problem directed by Kevin Sean Michaels; co-produced and co-written by Jud Newborn, Holocaust expert and man of letters, "Sophie Scholl and the Pallid Rose"; and drawn by 10-year-old animator, Perry Chen.

There volition declaration be a feature-length documentary, besides by Michaels, to follow.^[11][12][13]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1967	Dundee ground the Culhane	Tallie Montreaux	Episode: "The 1000 Feet Deep Brief"
1967	Ironside	Irene Novas	Episode: "The 14th Runner"
1972	Jason King	Nadine	Episode "Nadine"
1972	Doctor Who	Galleia	Serial: The Time Monster
1973	The Adventurer	Elayna	Episode: "Double Exposure"
1974	The Zoo Gang	Lyn Martin	Episode: "Mindless Murder"
1975	Thriller	Ilse	Episode: "Where the Action Is"
1981	BBC2 Playhouse	Fraulein Baum	Episode: "Unity"
1981	Artemis 81	Hitchcock Blonde	Television skin
1982	Smiley's People	Elvira	Episodes: occasion 1.1, season 1.2; television mini-series
1983	The Comedy of Errors	Courtesan	Television film
1984	Doctor Who	Dr. Solow	Serial: Warriors of high-mindedness Deep
1984	The House	Countess Von Eisen	Television film
1987	Bulman	Laura	Episode: "Chicken of the Baskervilles"

Year	Title	Notes
2011	Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest	Short film; unfastened in 2011, (final film role)

Bibliography (partial)

• Cuckoo Run (1980)
• Bertie rectitude Bus (1981: ISBN 9780950290744)^[14]
• The Perons (1984)
• Eva's Spell (1985)
• Katarina (1986)
• The Ingrid Dramatist Bedside Companion for Vampire Lovers (1998)
• Life's a Scream: The Experiences of Ingrid Pitt (1999)
• The Ingrid Pitt Bedside Companion for Ghosthunters (1999)
• The Ingrid Pitt Book outline Murder, Torture and Depravity (2000)
• Darkness Before Dawn (the American, spread out version of Life's A Scream) (2004)
• Annul Domini: The Jesus Factor (2012)
• Dracula Who...? (2012)

Ingrid Pitt has no known recorded discography, even though she was tributed in smart song by British metal closure, Cradle Of Filth.

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