Virginia Maskell
Virginia Elizabeth Maskell (1936–1968) was an English actress, poet and artist. After attending drama school she featured in several television roles. Her film debut was a minor role for director Roy Boulting in Happy Is the Bride (1957), after which she began switching between the theatre and the screen. She gained a British Lion contract and appeared in The Man Upstairs (1958) and as an air hostess in Jet Storm (1959). She made an impact on the stage in Ronald Duncan's The Catalyst, a play that initially the Lord Chamberlain's office had found troubling. There were distinguished appearances in live TV drama. She starred in Doctor in Love (1960), and as Peter Sellers's wife in Only Two Can Play (1962). She took a break from acting in 1962 to concentrate on her family, and returned after the birth of her second son to shoot Interlude (1968). In January of 1968, Maskell was reported missing. Police searched woods 700 feet up in the Chiltern Hills after her car was found a mile from her home. She apparently had wandered through the woods for hours before collapsing. She was taken to hospital and given emergency treatment for an overdose of barbiturates, but passed away the following day at the age of 31.
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as Dr. Lucy ByrneA government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets...
Movie pageThe Man Upstairs
as Helen GreyThe mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological...
Movie pageDoctor in Love
as Dr Nicola BerringtonDoctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice,...
Movie pageJet Storm
as Pam LeytonCrisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York...
Movie pageOnly Two Can Play
as Jean LewisJohn Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her...
Movie pageHappy Is the Bride
as MarciaIn a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the...
Movie pageInterlude
as Antonia ZelterA young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.
Movie pageVirgin Island
as TinaA British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live...
Movie pageThe Wild and the Willing
as Virginia ChownHarry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends,...
Movie pageGideon's Way
as Rose LemmanGideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on...
TV Show pageThe Adventures of Robin Hood
as 'Eve'The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the...
TV Show pageThe Buccaneers
as Rebecca BradburyThe adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make...
TV Show pageITV Play of the Week
as uncreditedA UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to...
TV Show pageThe Prisoner
as The WomanAfter resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but...
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