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     Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.160.141 |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11823418 My last memory of her will be Lord P.'s 'interview' with her at WorldCon in Brighton this year. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.69 |
I met her in Leeds a few years ago. Lovely lady. Her autobiography is sobering stuff and a triumph. Read it. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Oh no, that's very sad to hear. Another one gone from the golden era (in my opinion) of British horror film. RIP to the 'First Lady' of horror. | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.171.144.137 |
Sad to hear the news today. Mark, would you suggest her autobiography is worth looking out? | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 69.236.172.195 |
Ohhh, what a shame! I always enjoyed her. Fabulously sexy lady. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.131.0.116 |
I was very sad to hear of this last night, all the more so because of course I 'interviewed' her at World Horror this year, meaning she was pretty much the only member of the most influential horror movie period of my life that I got to meet. I hope she had fun with it- as she seemed to with pretty much everything in her life. I think she did. RIP Ingrid Pitt, and many thanks for your contribution to making me the person I am now | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.182.160.141 |
I once met her briefly at a Hammer convention in London, probably in the late 'seventies - she was impossibly glamourous and charismatic. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
Alas! She was a stalwart of the Festival of Fantastic Films too. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
She was indeed a fabulous woman and one of my favourite ever GoH's at the FoFF. This is very sad news. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I never met her but picked up enough from interviews over the years, and talking to guys who had met her, to realise what a truly lovely person she was, and adorably eccentric. I'm really gutted at this news.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.140.190.159 |
Yes. It's odd, but the night before I was looking at my History of Hammer book that she'd signed (among other Hammer-glamour ladies), showing my missus and saying how glad I was for getting it for xmas last year. It's like watching sand fall through an hourglass, isn't it? | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
Yes, Mark, Ingrid's autobiography is worth looking out for. Some cynics suggested that the latter half of the book - and her life - were a let down after her childhood experiences in the Nazi death camps, but after that start her very existence was a triumph. I heard her interviewed on the radio when she'd been commisioned to write the book and said she felt she might not be able to write about the death camps. She spoke in that interview more about the horrors than she wrote about them, but the book still has enough about it to move. (Incidentally, perhaps one day an unexpurgated version of the book may come out; she did say her original draft was nearly double the published length.) | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
That book sounds excellent, Tony. I've a signed Peter Cushing autobiography. | ||
| Seanmcd (Seanmcd) Username: Seanmcd Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 86.168.82.32 |
I was shocked to hear this! A very talented and extremely attractive woman. RIP. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 207.6.255.47 |
I was at that same event in Brighton... but in the Dealer's Room during the whole thing so missed JLP's inspired chat. Dang. We watched the original Wicker Man the other evening, though... Ms Pitt looked like a blonde Lady P at times. Except in the scene in the bath (I've no reference point for comparing that). | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Ian- I thought she had a look of Lady P about her as well. Or that Lady P had a look of the young Ingrid Pitt, perhaps. Very much regret missing Lord P's interview with her at WHC. I very briefly spoke to her later on that weekend, just to say how much I'd appreciated her films. I'm glad I did. She'll be missed. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 207.6.255.47 |
Simon; I think, given the number of years the two ladies have been around (or not, depending), that Lady P resembles the late Ms P. Oh my! I've just realized the additional parallel of names! ---> oooooo-OOOOOOOOOO-oooooo! <--- | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.131.0.116 |
Wow - thanks guys! I can't see the resemblance myself, but I'm certainly flattered that you both do.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
No, Kate looks like the youngest daughter from the film DOGTOOTH. The spitting double. | ||
| Ian Alexander Martin (Iam) Username: Iam Registered: 10-2009 Posted From: 207.6.255.47 |
Kate: have a look at The Wicker Man, specifically the mid-section of the scene in the Registry Office where out Sgt. demands the records and she looks up at him through her brows, then removes a tin of peaches and a book from her drawer. Both profile and over-the-shoulder shot. |