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Her numerous stage credits include working with US director ] on ''Blue Comedy'' (], Guildford) and ''The Snob'' (at Marowitz's Tottenham Court Road venue the ]). She also acted opposite ] in the original West End production of ]'s '']'' (playing Felicity Rumpers), supported Frankie Howerd again in the '']'' adaptation ''The Fly and the Fox'' (], Bromley), played Elma in a ] revival of ]'s '']'', and spent two years playing the female lead in ]'s '']'' at the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/143s/madeline-smith|title=Madeline Smith - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/bond-girl-madeline-smith-heads-to-buxton-1-9256620|title=Bond girl Madeline Smith heads to Buxton}}</ref> | Her numerous stage credits include working with US director ] on ''Blue Comedy'' (], Guildford) and ''The Snob'' (at Marowitz's Tottenham Court Road venue the ]). She also acted opposite ] in the original West End production of ]'s '']'' (playing Felicity Rumpers), supported Frankie Howerd again in the '']'' adaptation ''The Fly and the Fox'' (], Bromley), played Elma in a ] revival of ]'s '']'', and spent two years playing the female lead in ]'s '']'' at the ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theatricalia.com/person/143s/madeline-smith|title=Madeline Smith - Theatricalia|website=theatricalia.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/bond-girl-madeline-smith-heads-to-buxton-1-9256620|title=Bond girl Madeline Smith heads to Buxton}}</ref> | ||
Her television credits include '']'' (1971), '']'' (appearing in the serial 'Hampton Wick', 1971), '']'' (1972), ''His and Hers'' (1970) with ], '']'' (1973) with ], '']'' (1974), '']'' (1976), '']'' (1980) and '']'' (1984). She also featured in two episodes of ], as two different characters (as Angela Farmer in ] (1978) and as Anne Grantley in the 1983 Christmas special). She was a member of the regular cast of the BBC2 series '']'' (1974) and '']'' (1978) alongside satirists ] and ] and composer ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/people/madeline-smith/|title=Madeline Smith|last=TV.com|website=TV.com}}</ref> Smith also starred in '']'' (1984) which turned out to be the final screen appearance of ].<ref>{{cite web| title = Eric Morecambe – The Passionate Pilgrim| work = The Moving Image Company| url = http://www.movingimageco.com/Eric%20Morecambe%20-%20The%20Passionate%20Pilgrim.html| url-status = dead| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131126082857/http://movingimageco.com/Eric%20Morecambe%20-%20The%20Passionate%20Pilgrim.html| archivedate = 26 November 2013}}</ref> | Her television credits include '']'' (1971), '']'' (appearing in the serial 'Hampton Wick', 1971), '']'' (1972), ''His and Hers'' (1970) with ], '']'' (1973) with ], '']'' (1974), '']'' (1976), '']'' (1980) and '']'' (1984). She also featured in two episodes of ], as two different characters (as Angela Farmer in ] (1978) and as Anne Grantley in the 1983 Christmas special). She was a member of the regular cast of the BBC2 series '']'' (1974) and '']'' (1978) alongside satirists ] and ] and composer ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv.com/people/madeline-smith/|title=Madeline Smith|last=TV.com|website=TV.com}}</ref> Smith also starred in '']'' (1984) which turned out to be the final screen appearance of ].<ref>{{cite web| title = Eric Morecambe – The Passionate Pilgrim| work = The Moving Image Company| url = http://www.movingimageco.com/Eric%20Morecambe%20-%20The%20Passionate%20Pilgrim.html| url-status = dead| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20131126082857/http://movingimageco.com/Eric%20Morecambe%20-%20The%20Passionate%20Pilgrim.html| archivedate = 26 November 2013}}</ref> | ||
Having given birth to a daughter, Emily, in 1984,<ref name="express"/> she gradually wound down her acting career. Her husband, actor ], died from cancer in 1989.<ref>Marcus Hearn, ''Hammer Glamour: Classic Images from the Archive of Hammer Films'', Titan Books, 2009</ref> Twenty years later she was interviewed in, and was the cover star of, the coffee-table book ''Hammer Glamour''.<ref name=bbc>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8332191.stm|title=Actress recalls glamour of Hammer|date=30 October 2009|publisher=BBC News}}</ref> She returned to acting in 2011. In 2015 she appeared as a contestant on the red team in the BBC antiques gameshow '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/bond-girls-years-happened-next-007s-female-associates/madeline-smith-miss-carusoin-live-let-die-1973/|title=Bond girls through the years: what happened next to 007's 'female associates'|date=23 May 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> In December 2018 she appeared in episode 4 of the Christmas series of Celebrity Mastermind with The History of Kew Gardens as her specialist subject.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008pc8h|title=BBC One - Celebrity Mastermind|website=BBC}}</ref> | Having given birth to a daughter, Emily, in 1984,<ref name="express"/> she gradually wound down her acting career. Her husband, actor ], died from cancer in 1989.<ref>Marcus Hearn, ''Hammer Glamour: Classic Images from the Archive of Hammer Films'', Titan Books, 2009</ref> Twenty years later she was interviewed in, and was the cover star of, the coffee-table book ''Hammer Glamour''.<ref name=bbc>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8332191.stm|title=Actress recalls glamour of Hammer|date=30 October 2009|publisher=BBC News}}</ref> She returned to acting in 2011. In 2015 she appeared as a contestant on the red team in the BBC antiques gameshow '']''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/bond-girls-years-happened-next-007s-female-associates/madeline-smith-miss-carusoin-live-let-die-1973/|title=Bond girls through the years: what happened next to 007's 'female associates'|date=23 May 2018|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> In December 2018 she appeared in episode 4 of the Christmas series of Celebrity Mastermind with The History of Kew Gardens as her specialist subject.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008pc8h|title=BBC One - Celebrity Mastermind|website=BBC}}</ref> | ||
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Madeline Smith | |
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Born | (1949-08-02) 2 August 1949 (age 75) Hartfield, Sussex, England |
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1967–present |
Spouse |
David Buck
(m. 1975; died 1989) |
Children | 1 |
Madeline Smith (born 2 August 1949) is an English actress. Having been a model in the late 1960s, she has appeared in many television series and stage productions, plus comedy and horror films, in the 1970s and 1980s.
She is perhaps best known for playing Bond girl Miss Caruso in Live and Let Die (1973), but also had large roles in the Hammer horror films The Vampire Lovers (1970), Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970), Tam-Lin (1970), Theatre of Blood (1973) and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) and comedy films including Up Pompeii (1971), Up the Front (1972) and Carry On Matron (1972) amongst others. She also appeared in the films The Killing of Sister George (1968), Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970), The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972) and the musical film Take Me High (1973) with Cliff Richard.
After leaving the acting profession in the late 1980s to bring up her family, she returned to acting in 2011.
Early life
Smith was born in Hartfield, Sussex, the only child of Robert and Ursula Smith (née Boas). Her father owned an antiques shop and painting restoration business near Kew Gardens, and her Swiss mother was a translator. After a convent-school education, in her late teens she had a temporary job at Biba, the famous boutique located on Kensington High Street, London. It was at the instigation of Barbara Hulanicki, founder of Biba, that she became a model. In the late 1960s and early '70s, she was regularly featured in the work of Disc cartoonist J Edward Oliver, who on one occasion devoted an entire strip to her entitled 'The Life and Habits of the Madeline Smith'.
Career
Smith's first screen role was a small part in the film Escalation (1968) following this with a role in The Mini-Affair (1967), although the latter was released first. Smith first worked for Hammer Film Productions in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969), billed as 'Maddy Smith' and playing an East End prostitute. Among her other film appearances, she played opposite Ava Gardner in Tam-Lin, Peter Cushing in The Vampire Lovers and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Diana Dors in The Amazing Mr Blunden, Frankie Howerd in Up Pompeii and Up the Front, and Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood. In 1972, Smith appeared in Carry On Matron in a scene alongside Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor and Joan Sims. In 1973, she played the Bond girl Miss Caruso, in the post-opening titles sequence of Live and Let Die, the first James Bond film starring Roger Moore. Smith's role is therefore significant as Miss Caruso is the first Bond girl of the Roger Moore era. She was recommended for the role by Moore himself, having previously appeared with him in an episode of The Persuaders! on TV.
Her numerous stage credits include working with US director Charles Marowitz on Blue Comedy (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford) and The Snob (at Marowitz's Tottenham Court Road venue the Open Space). She also acted opposite Alec Guinness in the original West End production of Alan Bennett's Habeas Corpus (playing Felicity Rumpers), supported Frankie Howerd again in the Volpone adaptation The Fly and the Fox (Churchill Theatre, Bromley), played Elma in a Cambridge Theatre Company revival of Frederick Lonsdale's Canaries Sometimes Sing, and spent two years playing the female lead in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap at the St Martin's Theatre.
Her television credits include Doctor at Large (1971), The Two Ronnies (appearing in the serial 'Hampton Wick', 1971), Clochemerle (1972), His and Hers (1970) with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Casanova '73 (1973) with Leslie Phillips, Steptoe and Son (1974), The Howerd Confessions (1976), Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980) and The Steam Video Company (1984). She also featured in two episodes of All Creatures Great and Small, as two different characters (as Angela Farmer in Pride of Possession (1978) and as Anne Grantley in the 1983 Christmas special). She was a member of the regular cast of the BBC2 series The End of the Pier Show (1974) and In The Looking Glass (1978) alongside satirists John Wells and John Fortune and composer Carl Davis. Smith also starred in The Passionate Pilgrim (1984) which turned out to be the final screen appearance of Eric Morecambe.
Having given birth to a daughter, Emily, in 1984, she gradually wound down her acting career. Her husband, actor David Buck, died from cancer in 1989. Twenty years later she was interviewed in, and was the cover star of, the coffee-table book Hammer Glamour. She returned to acting in 2011. In 2015 she appeared as a contestant on the red team in the BBC antiques gameshow Bargain Hunt. In December 2018 she appeared in episode 4 of the Christmas series of Celebrity Mastermind with The History of Kew Gardens as her specialist subject.
Filmography
Film
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1969 | Who-Dun-It | Gwynneth Evans | Episode: "Murder Goes to School" |
1969 | Cribbins | 6 episodes | |
1970 | His and Hers | Janet Burgess | 6 episodes |
1970 | On the House | Angela | Episode: "A Little Bit on the Side" |
1970 | The Adventures of Don Quick | Leonie | Episode: "The Love Reflector" |
1971 | Doctor at Large | Sue Maxwell | 5 episodes |
1971 | The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder | Miss Clutterbuck | Episode: "The Willing Victim" |
1971 | Hine | Patricia Harris | Episode: "The Little White Lady" |
1971 | The Two Ronnies | Henrietta Beckett | 8 episodes |
1971 | The Persuaders! | Carla I | Episode: "The Long Goodbye" |
1971 | Jason King | Jonquil | 2 episodes |
1972 | Clochemerle | Hortense Girodot | 3 episodes |
1972 | ITV Sunday Night Theatre | Mary Todd | Episode: "Madly in Love" |
1972 | Them | Episode: "#1.2" | |
1972 | Milligan in... | Various | Episode: "Milligan in Autumn" |
1972 | Harriet's Back in Town | Diane | 2 episodes |
1973 | The Fenn Street Gang | Miss Bedwell | Episode: "Business Deficiency" |
1973 | Ooh La La! | Julie | Episode: "A Pig in a Poke" |
1973 | Casanova '73 | Tessa Finlay | Episode: "#1.6" |
1974 | Crown Court | Patricia Drake | Episode: "Falling Stars: Part 1" |
1974 | Wodehouse Playhouse | Aurelia Cammerleigh | Episode: "The Reverend Wooing of Archibald: Pilot" |
1974 | Comedy Playhouse | Aurelia Cammerleigh | Episode: "The Reverend Wooing of Archibald" |
1974 | Happy Ever After | Sally Thompson | Episode: "Amateur Dramatics" |
1974 | Steptoe and Son | Carol | Episode: "Back in Fashion" |
1974-1976 | The End of the Pier Show | Various | All 7 episodes |
1974 | Rooms | Fran | 2 episodes |
1975 | A Touch of the Casanovas | Teresa | |
1976 | My Brother's Keeper | Angela Lloyd | Episode: "Tooling Up" |
1976 | The Howerd Confessions | The Nurse | Episode: "#1.3" |
1977 | Big Boy Now! | Debbie Longhurst | Episode: "Mr and Mrs" |
1977 | Romance | Peggy | Episode: "The Black Knight" |
1978 | In the Looking Glass | Various | All 6 episodes |
1978 | All Creatures Great and Small | Angela Farmer | Episode: "Pride of Possession" |
1980 | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Moira Nicholson | |
1980 | Feelifax | Fridge | Voice |
1980 | The Bagthorpe Saga | Aunt Celia | 3 episodes |
1981 | Funny Man | Prunella | Episode: "Letting Go" |
1982 | A.J. Wentworth, B.A. | Mrs. Hillman | Episode: "Founder's Day" |
1982-1986 | Eureka | Various | All 32 episodes |
1983 | All Creatures Great and Small | Anne Grantley | Episode: "1983 Special" |
1984 | The Steam Video Company | Various | All 6 episodes |
1985 | The Pickwick Papers | Miss Nupkins | Episode: "#1.7" |
2011 | Doctors | Rita Prentice | Episode: "Whip Hand" |
2012 | Titanic: Southampton Remembers | Maud Newman | |
2013 | Dancing on the Edge | Violetta | 2 episodes |
2014 | Not Going Out | Joanne's friend | Episode: "Christening" |
Bibliography
- Paul, Louis (2008). "Madeline Smith". Tales From the Cult Film Trenches; Interviews with 36 Actors from Horror, Science Fiction and Exploitation Cinema. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. pp. 214–220. ISBN 978-0-7864-2994-3.
References
- McFarlane, Brian (16 May 2016). The Encyclopedia of British Film: Fourth edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9781526111968 – via Google Books.
- POWER, VICKI (23 June 2018). "Where are they now? Bond Girl Madeline Smith".
- ^ "Madeleine Smith".
- ^ POWER, VICKI (23 June 2018). "Where are they now? Bond Girl Madeline Smith".
- "James Bond star Madeline Smith - my first job - film acting". 3 July 2018.
- "Madeline Smith interview". Film-News.co.uk.
- Haase, Holger (1 September 2010). "Hammer and Beyond: Madeline Smith (*August 2, 1949)".
- "recurring people". www.jeoliver.co.uk.
- "Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)". BFI.
- Alan Barnes and Marcus Hearn, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: The Unofficial James Bond Film Companion, BT Batsford, 1997
- ^ "Actress recalls glamour of Hammer". BBC News. 30 October 2009.
- "Madeline Smith - Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
- "Bond girl Madeline Smith heads to Buxton".
- TV.com. "Madeline Smith". TV.com.
- "Eric Morecambe – The Passionate Pilgrim". The Moving Image Company. Archived from the original on 26 November 2013.
- Marcus Hearn, Hammer Glamour: Classic Images from the Archive of Hammer Films, Titan Books, 2009
- "Bond girls through the years: what happened next to 007's 'female associates'". 23 May 2018 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- "BBC One - Celebrity Mastermind". BBC.
External links
- Madeline Smith at IMDb
- Madeline Smith Retrospective at Den Of Geek
- BBC: Actress recalls glamour of Hammer – 2009 interview with Madeline Smith