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Suzy Kendall is a Actor British born on 1 january 1937 at Belper (United-kingdom)
Suzy Kendall (born Frieda Harrison 1 January 1944) is a British actress best known for her film roles in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
In 1968 Kendall married pianist, comedian and actor Dudley Moore, and though they divorced in 1972, they remained friends until Moore's death in 2002. Following the divorce she remarried shortly afterwards to Sandy Harper. In 2002 she hosted a memorial service for Moore attended by her second husband and daughter.
Kendall and her friend Pat Wellington wrote Natural Appeal: Fragrant Natural Preparations for the Care of Skin, Hair and Body, a book on beauty tips.
Kendall now lives in London with her second husband Sandy Harper. Their daughter Elodie Harper is a journalist at ITV Anglia.
In 2012, Kendall made her first film appearance in 35 years in
Berberian Sound Studio, billed in some sources as the mother of the lead character Gilderoy, played by Toby Jones, though the end credits on the film list her as "special guest screamer". The film is about a sound engineer working on an Italian giallo thriller, which alludes to several appearances she made in the genre during the 1970s.
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Suzy Kendall
Birth name Frieda Harrison
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 january 1937 (87 years) at Belper (United-kingdom)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 1 january 1937 (87 years) at Belper (United-kingdom)
Suzy Kendall (born Frieda Harrison 1 January 1944) is a British actress best known for her film roles in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Biography
Born in Belper, Derbyshire, Kendall attended Derby & District College of Art where she studied painting and design. She was a fabric designer at British Celanese and then became a photographic model before becoming an actress.In 1968 Kendall married pianist, comedian and actor Dudley Moore, and though they divorced in 1972, they remained friends until Moore's death in 2002. Following the divorce she remarried shortly afterwards to Sandy Harper. In 2002 she hosted a memorial service for Moore attended by her second husband and daughter.
Kendall and her friend Pat Wellington wrote Natural Appeal: Fragrant Natural Preparations for the Care of Skin, Hair and Body, a book on beauty tips.
Kendall now lives in London with her second husband Sandy Harper. Their daughter Elodie Harper is a journalist at ITV Anglia.
In 2012, Kendall made her first film appearance in 35 years in
Berberian Sound Studio, billed in some sources as the mother of the lead character Gilderoy, played by Toby Jones, though the end credits on the film list her as "special guest screamer". The film is about a sound engineer working on an Italian giallo thriller, which alludes to several appearances she made in the genre during the 1970s.
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Filmography of Suzy Kendall (22 films)
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Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
, 1h32Directed by Peter Strickland
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about films
Actors Toby Jones, Cosimo Massimo Fusco, Tónia Sotiropoúlou, Suzy Kendall, Chiara D'Anna, Eugenia Caruso
Roles Special Scream Performance
Rating61%
British sound engineer Gilderoy (Toby Jones) arrives at the Berberian film studio in Italy to work on what he believes is a film about horses. During a surreal meeting with Francesco, the film's producer, Gilderoy is shocked to find the film is actually an Italian giallo film, The Equestrian Vortex. He nonetheless begins work in the studio, at one point made to do Foley work, using vegetables to create sound effects for the film's increasingly gory torture sequences, and mixing voiceovers from session artists, Silvia and Claudia, into the score.
Adventures of a Private Eye (1977)
, 1h36Directed by Stanley Long
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Suzy Kendall, Harry H. Corbett, Diana Dors, Hilary Pritchard, Fred Emney, Liz Fraser
Roles Laura Sutton
Rating43%
Craze (1974)
, 1h36Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror, Crime
Actors Jack Palance, Diana Dors, Julie Ege, Edith Evans, Trevor Howard, Hugh Griffith
Roles Sally
Rating50%
Spasmo (1974)
, 1h34Directed by Umberto Lenzi
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Robert Hoffmann, Suzy Kendall, Ivan Rassimov, Adolfo lastretti, Guido Alberti, Maria Pia Conte
Roles Barbara
Rating61%
A young couple on their nightly hormonal romp decide to go to the beach, where they first meet a mysterious man who is also parked there. After asking for a light, the couple make their way to some nearby ruins, where in the midst of their passion they discover a hanging woman. Upon investigation, its revealed its a brutalized mannequin, the mysterious man peels off in his car before he can be questioned.
Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
, 1h30Directed by Freddie Francis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Donald Pleasence, Joan Collins, Kim Novak, Jack Hawkins, Georgia Brown, Donald Houston
Roles Ann / Beatrice (segment "Penny Farthing")
Rating56%
In the Framing Story, Dr. Tremayne (Donald Pleasence), a psychiatrist in a modern mental asylum, reveals a bold new psychiatric theory to colleague Dr. Nicholas (Jack Hawkins). Tremayne uses four patients who went insane - Paul, Timothy, Brian, and Auriol - to illustrate the theory, presenting each in turn to Nicholas:
Story of a Cloistered Nun (1973)
Directed by Domenico Paolella
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Catherine Spaak, Suzy Kendall, Eleonora Giorgi, Martine Brochard, Paola Senatore, Umberto Orsini
Roles Mother Superior
Rating55%
Set in 1624, a woman had been promised to a powerful family's son at birth falls in love with another man. She refuses to renounce him, and is sent to a nunnery by her shocked parents. Once there, she first undergoes degradation to acclimatize her to convent life, and experiences rampant lesbianism by the repressed nuns. She becomes pregnant by her lover. Finally, her refusal to accede to one nun's lascivious lesbian advances leads to plotting and treachery, and her lover is murdered out of jealousy. Her life now ruined, she further scandalises her family by refusing to take her vows, and leaves the convent, devoting her existence to those in need.
Torso (1973)
, 1h29Directed by Sergio Martino
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Serial killer films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Suzy Kendall, Luc Merenda, Tina Aumont, John Richardson, Roberto Bisacco, Ernesto Colli
Roles Jane
Rating65%
The murder of two college students (and one's boyfriend) leads to a manhunt for the killer, whose chief weapon is a red and black ascot to strangle his victims. When a young college student discovers that she recognizes the murder weapon, she becomes a target of the killer and agrees with one of her friends, who is friends with their art history teacher, to stay at a local villa located on a nearby cliff.
Fear Is the Key (1972)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Barry Newman, Suzy Kendall, John Vernon, Dolph Sweet, Ben Kingsley, Ray McAnally
Roles Sarah Ruthven
Rating62%
John Talbot is talking on radio to a girl and another man who are flying a plane. He hears them being machine gunned to death by another plane.
Assault (1971)
, 1h31Directed by Sidney Hayers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Suzy Kendall, Frank Finlay, Freddie Jones, Lesley-Anne Down, Tony Beckley, Anthony Ainley
Roles Julie West
Rating55%
After a schoolgirl is raped on her way home from school, police move in to investigate the case. After a further girl is attacked and killed, they call in the assistance of a doctor and a local schoolteacher to help solve the case.
Color Me Dead (1970)
, 1h37Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Tom Tryon, Carolyn Jones, Rick Jason, Tony Ward, Tom Oliver, Suzy Kendall
Roles Sue
Rating55%
Lawyer Frank Bigelow discovers he has been poisoned and has only weeks to live. He spends the time tracking down his own murderer.
The Gamblers (1970)
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Suzy Kendall, Don Gordon, Kenneth Griffith, Stuart Margolin, Massimo Serato, Faith Domergue
Roles Candace
Rating60%
, 1h38Directed by Dario Argento
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Serial killer films
Actors Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Umberto Raho, Mario Adorf, Reggie Nalder
Roles Julia
Rating71%
Sam Dalmas (Tony Musante) is an American writer living in Rome with his model girlfriend Giulia (Suzy Kendall). Suffering from writer's block, Sam is on the verge of returning to America, but witnesses the attack of a woman in an art gallery by a mysterious black-gloved assailant dressed in a raincoat.
Darker Than Amber (1970)
, 1h36Directed by Robert Clouse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Ahna Capri, William Smith, Suzy Kendall, Jane Russell
Roles Vangie / Merrimay
Rating61%
The film is faithful to the plot of the novel. McGee and his close friend Meyer are fishing underneath a bridge when a young woman (a former prostitute named Vangie) is thrown off the bridge, weighted with a cement block around her ankles. McGee dives in and saves her, and is surprised when she insists that he not contact the police. She admits that she was nearly killed due to her involvement in a prostitution ring and a murder scheme. The trio travels to Nassau to investigate her would-be murderers, who work in male/female pairs to lure rich, lonely men traveling on cruise ships into their confidence, rob them, and then toss them overboard to drown. McGee and Meyer set out to dismantle the operation.
The Betrayal (1969)
, 1h41Directed by Alberto Lattuada
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Action, Spy, Historical
Themes Spy films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Suzy Kendall, Kenneth More, Capucine, Giancarlo Giannini, James Booth, Alexander Knox
Roles Fräulein Doktor
Rating63%
A woman spy and some male agents working for the Germans during World War I land at night near the British naval base at Scapa Flow, from a U-boat. The British, led by Col. Foreman, ambush the landing party, capturing two of the men, but the woman gets away. Foreman fakes the execution of one of the spies, thus tricking the second one, Meyer, into becoming a double agent in the hopes of using him to capture his woman accomplice, whom Meyer identifies under the codename Fraulein Doktor. Fraulein Doktor is portrayed as a brilliant spy who stole a formula for a nerve gas which the Germans used to great effect against the Allies on the battlefield.
Up the Junction (1968)
Directed by Peter Collinson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Dennis Waterman, Suzy Kendall, Adrienne Posta, Maureen Lipman, Liz Fraser, Barbara Archer
Roles Polly
Rating68%
Polly Dean (Suzy Kendall) gives up a privileged life in Chelsea and moves to a working-class community in Battersea where she takes a job in a confectionery factory in an attempt to distance herself from her moneyed upbringing and make her own living. She becomes friends with two working-class sisters and forms a relationship with a working-class boy who envies her access to an easy life and is frustrated by her denial of it. When Polly's friend becomes pregnant she decides to have an illegal abortion. Tragedy hits when a motorcycle accident kills one of the friends.