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Career. At sixteen, Court met film director Anthony Asquith in London; the meeting gained her a brief part in Champagne Charlie (1944). Court won a British Critics Award for her role as a crippled girl in Carnival (1946). She also appeared in Holiday Camp (1947) and Bond Street (1948).
Hazel Court. Actress: The Curse of Frankenstein. Born in Birmingham, England, Hazel Court carried on a love affair with the world of movies and make-believe that made her a leading student at her hometown's School of Drama and later helped her land a contract with the J. Arthur Rank Organisation.
- January 1, 1
- Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- Lake Tahoe, California, USA
Apr 17, 2008 · Hazel Court, a British beauty who co-starred with the likes of Boris Karloff and Vincent Price in horror movies of the 1950s and ’60s, has died. She was 82. Court died Tuesday at her home near...
Apr 18, 2008 · Hazel Court, a British actress who began as a popular ingénue and became a cult figure as a “scream queen” in horror films on both sides of the Atlantic, died on Tuesday in Lake Tahoe,...
Hazel Court. Actress: The Curse of Frankenstein. Born in Birmingham, England, Hazel Court carried on a love affair with the world of movies and make-believe that made her a leading student at her hometown's School of Drama and later helped her land a contract with the J. Arthur Rank Organisation.
- February 10, 1926
- April 15, 2008
With her piercing scream and what was once described as a “panoramic cleavage”, Hazel Court epitomised the “scream queen” of horror movies in the 1950s and 1960s, first in her native England with Hammer and then in the United States, working with Roger Corman.
Hazel Court (1926-2008) was a film heroine in the Forties and a cult favourite in the Fifties and Sixties, appearing in Hammer horrors, Edgar Allan Poe adaptations and sci-fi movies. She also starred in musicals, comedies and thrillers, and was married to actor Dermot Walsh.
