Judy Geeson

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Judy Geeson in the film The Pill Was To Blame For Everything (1968)

Judith "Judy" Amanda Geeson (born September 10, 1948 in Arundel , England ) is a British actress who became "popular in the late 1960s through the roles of perky, revealing teenagers".

Live and act

Judith "Judy" Geeson, who comes from the extreme south of England, was already on stage at the age of nine and three years later, in 1960, in front of a television camera for the first time. Two years later, Judy Geeson made her film debut in the 55-minute short children's thriller "Wings of Mystery," in which she starred. Judy Geeson then took acting classes at the Corona Stage School.

Geeson began filming regularly at the age of 18. In Young Thorns , she played alongside Sidney Poitier the cheeky East End student Pamela Dare from London, and a few months later the murderous daughter of a ringmaster in the horror film Circus of Death . Judy Geeson made the libertine Mary Gloucester famous in the revealing teenage romance comedy ... unterm Holderbusch . Her nude appearance there was a real sensation in 1967.

Since the beginning of the 1970s Judy Geeson was seen preferably in horror and mystery crime novels, in 1974 she gave an amusing performance “as London policewoman Sgt. Jennifer Thatcher, who in Brannigan - A man of steel a gruff, hard-nosed and punchy Chicago cop ( John Wayne ) as 'companion' during his stay in the British capital. ”Her later cinema appearances are far less spectacular, and in the 1980s Judy Geeson, now based in Los Angeles since 1984 , had to deal with an abundance of Guest roles in US television series are content.

Judy Geeson has also acted in the theater, for example in performances of Titus Andronicus , An Ideal Husband and Othello . Since the end of the 20th century, when roles in film and television became scarce, Judy Geeson created a second professional foothold in Beverly Hills and ran an antique shop until the end of 2009.

Private

Judy Geeson has a sister who is also acting in Sally Geeson (* 1950). In the second half of the 80s Judy was married to her American colleague Kristoffer Tabori (* 1952).

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 213.

Web links

Commons : Judy Geeson  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of the film . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F - H. Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 213.
personal data
SURNAME Geeson, Judy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geeson, Judith Amanda (full maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Arundel , England , UK