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Ingrid Pitt (born November 21, 1937 in Poland), is an actress.

Career
Born Ingoushka Petrov to the German father and the Jewish mother, during World War II she and her personal were imprisoned inside the concentration camp. She survived & around Berlin, Germany in the 1950s she met & married an American soldier and ended higher sleep in California. Fallowing her marriage failed, she returned to Europe but after the little role inside the film, she headed to Hollywood where she worked as the waitress while trying to produce a career in the motion-picture show. Typically dyestuff her hair lightly wich her natural hair color is Red.

inside the Sixties, she appeared using the stage title of Ingrid Pitt inside bit part in the total of mainstream films like Doctor Zhivago, but within 1968 she co-starred in the moo budget science fiction film, The Omegans. She next got the microscopic, although important, role in the pack professional profits Where Eagles Dare. Pitt next appeared within Amicus Horror Anthology film The House That Dripped Blood, a gothic horror film that marked the number 1 of the string of early Seventies successes for her in this genre, especially working for Hammer Films that elevated her to cult figure status.

Sustaining Hammer Film Productions, Pitt made The Vampire Lovers, a film according to Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla and Countess Dracula, a film according to a story of Countess Elizabeth Báthory.

She has as well played 2 roles in the Doctor Who stories The Time Monster in 1972; and Warriors of the Deep in 1984.

within a period of the Eighties, Pitt returned to roles in mainstream films & in television however her popularity sustaining horror film buffs saw her sought after for guest appearances at horror conventions & film festivals. She has besides contributed the column to Shivers magazine and Model and Collectors Mart, she authored several books of fiction inside the horror genre, the spy thriller, the dramthe just about life in a concentration camp, too when toddlers's stories. Within 1999, she told her own story in ''The Autobiography of Ingrid Pitt : Life's The Scream''.

She has the student's pilot license & the black belt around karate.

Filmography (partial):
Green Fingers (2000) The Asylum (2000) ''Hanna's War (1988) Wild Geese II (1985) Underworld (1985) Bones (1984) The House (1984) (TV) The Comedy of Errors (1983) (TV) Octopussy (1983) Smiley's People (1982) TV miniseries Who Dares Wins (1982) Artemis 81 (1981) (TV) Unity (1981) (TV) The Wicker Man (1973) Countess Dracula (1971) Nobody Ordered Love (1971) The Vampire Lovers (1970) The House That Dripped Blood (1970) Where Eagles Dare (1968) The Omegans (1968) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) Un Beso en el puerto (1966) Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Bibliography (partial):
A Ingrid Pitt Book of Slaying, Torture & Depravity (2003) Ingrid Pitt Bedside Companion for Ghosthunters (2003) A Autobiography of Ingrid Pitt : Life's The Scream (1999) A Ingrid Pitt Bedside Companion for Lamia Lovers (1998) Katarina (1986) Eva's Spell (1985) A Perons (1984) Cuckoo Do'' (1980)

Pitt of Horror
Personal homepage and online shop of the artist, with a fan club, merchandise, a message to her fans, and a personal profile.

Ingrid Pitt Tribute
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IMDb: Ingrid Pitt
Biography and filmography.


Arts: Literature: Authors
Arts: Movies: Genres: Horror
Arts: Movies: Titles: D: Doctor Zhivago - 1965
Arts: Movies: Titles: F: Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A
Arts: Movies: Titles: W: Where Eagles Dare
Arts: Movies: Titles: W: Wicker Man, The - 1973




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