Pamela Franklin

Pamela Franklin (1973)

Pamela Franklin (born February 3, 1950 in Yokohama , Japan ) is a former British actress , a child star of the 1960s with roles, sometimes extreme teenagers.

Live and act

Pamela Franklin's father worked as a merchant in the import and export business and shortly after the end of World War II traveled with his family across the Pacific, so that the child spent the first years of his life in Japan , Hong Kong and Australia . In the late 1950s , the family settled in Camberley , Surrey , where Pamela Franklin was trained in classical dance at the Elmshurst Ballet School.

Pamela Franklin was first brought in front of the movie camera at the age of eleven. Already in her debut film, Jack Clayton's atmospheric horror story, Castle of Terror , she was given the key role of the country nobility girl Flora, who was captivated by the demonic spirit of the dead servant Quint. Pamela Franklin delivered a very convincing acting performance and was engaged in the same year (1961) for the leading role of Patricia, the daughter of William Holden , in the family and wilderness story Patricia and the Lion . Insignificantly later, she also made the leap to Hollywood .

In a very short time, Pamela Franklin had risen to become the most famous child actress in Great Britain. Most of the time, the dark-haired girl on both sides of the Atlantic was allowed to play with fresh, sincere and unspent teenagers in the vicinity of exotic animals (lions, dolphins and tigers); But she was particularly convincing as a child with disturbing behavior or as a girl in need, the dangers and extreme situations (such as in New Adventure with Flipper , Was It Really Murder? and The Evening of the Following Day ), where she among escaped convicts, threatening nannies and kidnapper device has to overcome.

Even in her twenties, Pamela Franklin found herself exposed to subliminal threats ( horror attack , dance of the skulls ) and open threats ( deadly holidays , the island of monsters ) in the film. Her interpretation of the unruly and cynical student Sandy, who tried to make her teacher (played by Maggie Smith , who was to receive an Oscar for her portrayal ) in The Best Years of Miss Jean Brodie with her insubordination, to make life hell, was 1970 honored with the 'National Board of Review Award' for Best Supporting Actress. Also in 1970 Pamela Franklin achieved international success with the interpretation of Dora Spenlow in Delbert Mann's television adaptation of the Charles Dickens model David Copperfield, which was made the previous year . Towards the end of the same year, she married actor Harvey Jason .

As quickly as her film career began, she ended in the mid- 1970s . Until the early 1980s , Pamela Franklin was still seen as a guest star in a plethora of US series (including Bonanza , Vegas , Fantasy Island , Hawaii Five-Zero , Trapper John, MD ) without leaving a lasting impression there.

Filmography (cinema only)

• 1961: Castle of Terror
• 1962: Patricia and the Lion ( The Lion )
• 1962: The Rocking Horse ( The Horse Without a Head )
• 1963: The Tiger's going on ( A Tiger Walks )
• 1963: The Third Secret
• 1964: New Adventure with Flipper (Flippers New Adventure)
• 1965: Was It Really Murder? ( The Nanny )
• 1966: Every night at nine ( Our Mother's House )
• 1967: Dave - at home in all beds ( Sinful Davey , WP: 1969)
• 1967-68: In the evening of the following day ( The Night of the Following Day )
• 1969: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie ( The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie )
• 1969: David Copperfield ( David Copperfield ) (TV)
• 1970: Deadly Holiday ( And Soon the Darkness )
• 1972: Horror Attack ( Necromancy )
• 1972: Ace Eli and Rodger of the Sky
• 1972: Dance of the Skulls ( The Legend of Hell House )
• 1975: The Island of the Monsters ( The Food of the Gods )

Web links

• Pamela Franklin in the Internet Movie Database (English)