Madeline Smith
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Madeline Smith (born 2 August 1949) is an English actress.
She appeared in several television series and stage productions, as well as horror and horror films in the 1970s and 1980s, having been a model in the late 1960s.
Early life
Smith was born in Hartfield, Sussex, and was the only child of Robert and Ursula Smith (née Boas). Her father owned an antiques store and painting restoration company near Kew Gardens, and her Swiss mother was a translator. She had a part time at Biba, London's most famous store, after a convent school education in her late teens. It was Barbara Hulanicki, the Biba's founder, who suggested that she be a model. She appeared regularly in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of Disc cartoonist J Edward Oliver's 'The Life and Habits of the Madeline Smith', which on one occasion dedicated a whole strip to her.'
Personal life
In 1975, Smith married actor David Buck; he died from cancer in 1989. Emily, the couple's daughter, was born in 1984.
Career
Smith's first film role was a small part of Escalation (1968), but the latter was released first. Smith appeared in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969), billed as 'Maddy Smith' and playing a prostitute in East End. In Tam-Lin, Peter Cushing's The Vampire Lovers and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell, Diana Dors in The Amazing Mr Blunden, Frankie Howerd in Up Pompei and Up the Front, and Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood are among her film appearances. Smith appeared in Carry On Matron in 1972 as Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor, and Joan Sims. In 1973, she appeared as Miss Caruso in the first James Bond film starring Roger Moore, as the Bond girl Miss Caruso. Miss Caruso is the first Bond girl of the Roger Moore period, and Smith's role is therefore significant. Moore herself had been selected for the role, and she had previously appeared alongside him in an episode of The Persuaders. On TV. Smith and Moore appear in a scene in which he detaches her dress with a magnetic watch.
Smith's numerous stage appearances 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). In Alan Bennett's original West End production of Canaries (2004), she appeared opposite Alec Guinness (playing Felicity Rumpers), supported Frankie Howerd (Churchill Theatre, Bromley), appeared in Frederick Lonsdale's Canaries Sometimes Sing, and spent two years as the female lead in Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap at the St Martin's Theatre.
Doctor at Large (1971), The Two Ronnies (appearing in the television series 'Hampton Wick' (1972), Clochemerle (1972), My and Her Son (1974), Why Didn't They Ask Evans (1976), Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1974) by Leslie Phillips (1977). (1980) and The Steam Video Company (1984). She appeared in two episodes of All Creatures Great and Small as two separate characters (as Angela Farmer in "Pride of Possession" (1978) and Anne Grantley in the 1983 Christmas special). She appeared on 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 appeared in The Passionate Pilgrim (1984), which turned out to be Eric Morecambe's last film appearance.
Smith started slowing her career after her daughter's birth in 1984 to give her time to raise her daughter. Smith was interviewed in 2009 and was the front star of, Hammer Glamour's coffee-table book. She returned to acting in 2011 after an appearance in an episode of Doctors. She continued with a role in a docu-drama marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the Titanic's sinking before appearing in the mini-series Dancing on the Edge (2013) and being in an episode of Not Going Out in 2014. In 2015, she appeared on the red team of the BBC antiques gameshow Bargain Hunt as a contestant. She appeared in episode 4 of Celebrity Mastermind with The History of Kew Gardens as her special topic in December 2018. Smith and her Up Pompeii were reunited in 2019 in Up Pompeii! Tim Brooke-Taylor and others appeared in a video play of the same name to celebrate fifty years of the series.