Diane Clare

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Diane Clare (* 8. July 1938 in London as Diane Dirsztay ; † 21st June 2013 ) was a British actress in film and television. She played various roles in British cinema productions in the 1950s and 1960s. Including in films like Ice Cold in Alexandria , A Man Goes His Way , Until the Blood Freezes or Nights of Horror .

life and career

Diane Clare, born in London in 1938, began her film career with a small supporting role in Stanley Donen's classic comedy film Indiskret . Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman played the leading roles . In the same year she cast the director J. Lee Thompson in the role of sister Denise Norton in the war drama Ice Cold in Alexandria . She also played in Vincente Minnelli's romantic love comedy in 1958, What does Mama know about love? .

As early as 1959, Diane Clare had turned to television and played there in episodes of successful series. Her appearances in the new medium included ITV Television Playhouse (1959), Persuasion (1960–1961), The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theater (1963), Z Cars (1964) and Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone (1965).

In the early 1960s she was seen in the cinema in Michael Anderson's mystery thriller A Man Goes His Way , in Michael Winner's film What Happened in College or in the horror drama Until the Blood Freezes by director Robert Wise .

In 1966 she played the leading female role alongside André Morell in the hammer film production Nights of Horror . In the same year she engaged the director Cyril Frankel for the Edgar Wallace film The Secret of the White Nun . In 1968 she ended her film career in Frederic Goodes horror film The Angel of Death at the side of William Sylvester .

Clare married author Barry England in 1967. The marriage lasted until his death in 2009. The couple had two children, Kate and Christopher.

Diane Clare died on June 21, 2013 at the age of 74.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data of Diane Clare in: Film Review , Editions 633-638, Orpheus Pub., 2003, p. 79
  2. ^ Obituary for Diane Clare in: The Times
personal data
SURNAME Clare, Diane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dirsztay, Diane (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress in film and television
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH June 21th 2013