Barbara Ewing

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Barbara Ewing (* 1944 ) is a New Zealand actress and novelist .

Life

Ewing studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London until 1965 . She made her film debut in the horror film The Torture Garden of Dr. Diabolo ( Torture Garden , 1967), a film produced by AMICUS, a British company specializing in scary episodic films. In her episode, Ewing competed as Dorothy Endicott against a jealous piano (!) That wanted to prevent, as the fiancée of a pianist, from practicing. The film's director Freddie Francis has done was so that he her the role of frivolous Barmädchens Zena in his next film Dracula Has Risen from the Grave ( Dracula Has Risen from the Grave 1968th) on the side of Christopher Lee was. In fact, Barbara Ewing was the only one to stand out in this assembly line product from the famous Hammer Films company with her energetic performance. In the cinema she was only noticed in Die Nadel ( Eye of the Needle , 1981) in a short supporting role. As the landlady Mrs. Garden, she is the first to discover that her inconspicuous lodger ( Donald Sutherland ) is a German spy ... and the first in the film to feel his deadly thin stiletto, the “needle”.

On television she had a continuous role as Agnes Fairchild in the comedy series Brass between 1982 and 1984. She also appeared in the TV adaptations of the Ruth Rendell crime novels.

Barbara Ewing also writes novels. In the English-speaking world, Strangers , The Actresses , A Dangerous Vine , The Trespass , Rosetta and The Mesmerist appeared between 1978 and 2007 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ewing, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand actress and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH New Zealand