Suzanna Leigh
Suzanna Leigh (* 26. July 1945 as Suzanna Smyth in Leicester , England ; † 11. December 2017 in Winter Garden, Florida ) was a British actress .
life and career
The daughter of a manufacturer of car engines, she grew up in the city of her birth, Leicester, in the Belgrave district and later attended a convent school outside London. Her godmother was the actress Vivien Leigh . It was through her that Suzanna got her later stage and stage name. Even before her teenage years, she worked in British film productions as an extra and in minor supporting roles. She later got bigger roles. A few years later she was the leading actress in the French series Trois Etoile with 13 episodes.
Leigh appeared at the London Opera Ball as Madame Dubarry and had a sedan chair specially designed for it. She was carried through the streets of London by five men in appropriate costumes. Recordings of this artistic performance published in daily newspapers drew the attention of producer Hal B. Wallis to Suzanna Leigh and he hired the British woman in 1965 for his film Boeing-Boeing , with which she made the leap to Hollywood. She played a British stewardess in this comedy starring Tony Curtis , Jerry Lewis , Thelma Ritter , Christiane Schmidtmer and Dany Saval .
During her time in Hollywood she also shot with Elvis Presley , among others . She later returned to Great Britain to devote herself to the film business there as well. Her work as a film and television actress includes more than two dozen productions, mainly in the 1960s and 1970s. In 1998 her autobiography was published under the title Paradise, Suzanna Style . She died of cancer in 2017.
Filmography
- 1956: The Silken Affair
- 1958: Little Thumb (tom thumb)
- 1960: Oscar Wilde: The Movie (Oscar Wilde)
- 1961: Bomb in the High Street - Directed by Peter Bezencenet and Terry Bishop
- 1963: It Happened Like This - Episode: The Idol's Eye (TV series)
- 1964: Simon Templar (The Saint) - Episode: The Wonderful War (TV series)
- 1965: Die Goldpuppen (The Pleasure Girls) - Director: Gerry O'Hara
- 1965: Boeing-Boeing (Boeing Boeing)
- 1966: Trois étoiles en Touraine (TV series)
- 1966: South Seas Paradise (Paradise, Hawaiian Style)
- 1966: The Wednesday Play - Episode: A Tale of Two Wives (TV series)
- 1967: The Deadly Bees (The Deadly Bees)
- 1967: Hot Cats (Deadlier Than the Male)
- 1968: Beasts lurk in front of Caracas (The Lost Continent)
- 1968: Excursion (Subterfuge) - Director: Peter Graham Scott
- 1969: Journey to the Unknown - Episode: One on a Desert Island
- 1969: The Man and the Albatross - Director: Jean-Pierre Decourt
- 1970: ITV Playhouse - Episode: The Plastic People
- 1971: The 2 (The Persuaders!) - Episode: Chain of Events (The man with the suitcase)
- 1971: Only vampires kiss bloody (Lust for a Vampire)
- 1972: The Fiend - Director: Robert Hartford-Davis
- 1973: Docteur Caraïbes (TV series) - Director: Jean-Pierre Decourt
- 1974: Son of Dracula - Director: Freddie Francis
- 1978: The Chiffy Kids - Episode: All in a Good Cause
- 2015: Grace of the Father - Director: De Miller
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituary-suzanna-leigh-actress-interior-designer-encyclopaedia-seller-1434596
Web links
- Suzanna Leigh in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Suzanna Leigh in the German dubbing file
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leigh, Suzanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smyth, Suzanna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leicester , England , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 2017 |
| Place of death | Winter Garden, Florida |