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Hy Hazell is a Actor British born on 4 october 1919
Hy Hazell (born London 4 October 1919 – died London 10 May 1970), born as Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins, was a British actress of theatre, musicals and revue as well as a singer and film actress . Allmusic described her as "an exuberant comic actor and lively singer and dancer".
As a teenager, Hy Hazell started life as a performer in the chorus of the West End production of Rodgers and Hart’s On Your Toes (1937). She later had a long and successful run of leading roles in musicals, including Expresso Bongo at the Saville Theatre in 1958, as heartless Dixie Collins; as Mrs Squeezum in the Mermaid Theatre's Lock Up Your Daughters in 1959 (playing for almost 2,000 performances); as ex-Cochran girl Kay Connor in Charlie Girl at the Adelphi Theatre from 1965 ; and as Mrs Peachum in a notable Beggar's Opera by the Prospect Theatre Company in 1968.
She was in British films Meet Me at Dawn (1946), The Yellow Balloon (1953), and B-movies like The Body Said No! and The Lady Craved Excitement (both 1950), where she got to sing. She also established a reputation as - to quote one of her own programme notes - 'English pantomime's most distinguished post war principal boy'. A dynamic stage presence, to say nothing of her long legs, made her a favourite for the very British tradition of having glamorous young women play the Principal boy in pantomime and for years she was extremely popular in this seasonal form of theatre.
Hy Hazell died suddenly, unexpectedly. She was playing Golde in Fiddler on the Roof in London's West End, and following a performance, she died accidentally, choking to death while eating a steak, on May 10, 1970.
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Birth name Hyacinth Hazel O'Higgins
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 4 october 1919
Death 10 may 1970 (at 50 years)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 4 october 1919
Death 10 may 1970 (at 50 years)
As a teenager, Hy Hazell started life as a performer in the chorus of the West End production of Rodgers and Hart’s On Your Toes (1937). She later had a long and successful run of leading roles in musicals, including Expresso Bongo at the Saville Theatre in 1958, as heartless Dixie Collins; as Mrs Squeezum in the Mermaid Theatre's Lock Up Your Daughters in 1959 (playing for almost 2,000 performances); as ex-Cochran girl Kay Connor in Charlie Girl at the Adelphi Theatre from 1965 ; and as Mrs Peachum in a notable Beggar's Opera by the Prospect Theatre Company in 1968.
She was in British films Meet Me at Dawn (1946), The Yellow Balloon (1953), and B-movies like The Body Said No! and The Lady Craved Excitement (both 1950), where she got to sing. She also established a reputation as - to quote one of her own programme notes - 'English pantomime's most distinguished post war principal boy'. A dynamic stage presence, to say nothing of her long legs, made her a favourite for the very British tradition of having glamorous young women play the Principal boy in pantomime and for years she was extremely popular in this seasonal form of theatre.
Hy Hazell died suddenly, unexpectedly. She was playing Golde in Fiddler on the Roof in London's West End, and following a performance, she died accidentally, choking to death while eating a steak, on May 10, 1970.
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Every Home Should Have One (1970)
, 1h34Directed by Jim Clark
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Marty Feldman, Judy Cornwell, Patrick Cargill, Julie Ege, Jack Watson, Shelley Berman
Roles Mrs. Kaplan
Rating50%
An advertising man is tasked by his boss with trying to come up with a sexy new image for porridge. He is also struggling with his chaotic home life, where his wife has become involved in a campaign to "clean up" television.
Five Golden Hours (1961)
, 1h30Directed by Mario Zampi
Genres Comedy
Actors Cyd Charisse, Ernie Kovacs, George Sanders, Kay Hammond, Dennis Price, Clelia Matania
Roles 1st Lady Guest
Rating56%
Aldo Bondi (Kovacs) is a professional pallbearer and mourner in Rome who lives well off the extravagant gifts given to him by the rich widows he comforts. When he falls for the supposedly penniless Baroness Sandra (Charisse) – who is actually a rich "black widow" whose husbands all die – he concocts a Ponzi scheme to bilk three widows by taking money from them, telling them that he will invest it during the "five golden hours" between the closing of the stock exchange in Rome, and the opening of the New York Stock Exchange. However, the Baroness absconds with the cash, leaving Bondi in hock to the widows. He attempts to kill them, but the scheme fails and he pretends to have gone insane. In the sanatarium, his roommate is another debtor feigning madness, Mr. Bing (Sanders).
Trouble with Eve (1960)
Directed by Francis Searle
Genres Comedy
Actors Hy Hazell, Robert Urquhart, Garry Marsh, Vera Day, Denis Shaw, David Graham
Rating58%
The Whole Truth (1958)
, 1h24Directed by John Guillermin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Stewart Granger, Donna Reed, George Sanders, Gianna Maria Canale, John Van Eyssen, Peter Dyneley
Roles American Woman
Rating61%
While making a movie on the French Riviera, the producer Max Poulton has been having an affair with his star, Gina Bertini. A married man, Max does not want to lose his wife Carol, but the hot-tempered Gina threatens to tell all.
Anastasia (1956)
, 1h45Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Martita Hunt, Akim Tamiroff, Sacha Pitoëff
Rating69%
Ten years of turmoil have passed since the teenage Anastasia and her family (parents, sisters and brother) were presumed to have been killed by Bolshevik revolutionaries. Does the refugee Anna who has turned up in Paris have the bearing, speech, and intimate knowledge of the imperial family that the real grand duchess would have? Or is she merely a recovering amnesiac with a striking resemblance who has been cleverly groomed by the émigré General Bounine (Brynner) to stake a claim to 10 million pounds left by the Tsar in an English bank? In a series of encounters with former familiars and members of the imperial court, Anna begins to display a confidence and style that astonish her skeptical interlocutors, yet retains our sympathy by seeming more interested in recovering her own identity than the imperial bank account. In a climactic meeting with the Empress in Copenhagen, Anna and the Empress take the measure of each other, alternately projecting imperial self-possession and the anguish of family longing. Meanwhile, Bounine has become increasingly jealous of the attentions the fortune-hunting Prince Paul pays to Anna. At a grand ball at which her engagement to Paul is to be announced, the Empress has a private word with Anna/Anastasia, who subsequently elopes with Bounine.
Up in the World (1956)
, 1h27Directed by John Paddy Carstairs
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Maureen Swanson, Norman Wisdom, Jerry Desmonde, Michael Caridia, Colin Gordon, Ambrosine Phillpotts
Roles Yvonne
Rating64%
Un laveur de vitres empêche le fils du manoir où il travaille d'être kidnappé.
Stolen Assignment (1955)
, 1h2Directed by Terence Fisher
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors John Bentley, Eddie Byrne, Patrick Holt, Hy Hazell, Joyce Carey, Kay Callard
Roles Jenny Drew
Rating58%
Lorsque Ida Garnett signale la disparition de sa nièce Margaret Crossley à la police, il semble y avoir un coupable idéal : son mari Henry Crossley. Mais il ne semble pas être celui qui en tirerait profit. Mike Billings et Jenny Drew, deux journalistes du Sunday Star, vont entrer en compétition pour résoudre cette enquête, au détriment de l'inspecteur Corcoran.
The Yellow Balloon (1953)
, 1h16Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Kenneth More, Andrew Ray, Kathleen Ryan, William Sylvester, Bernard Lee, Marjorie Rhodes
Roles Mary
Rating68%
The scene: London's east end. When 12 years old Frankie Palmer (Andrew Ray) loses the sixpence his father has given him to buy a large yellow balloon from a street seller that the boy has set his heart on, he sees that a friend of his, young Ronnie Williams (Stephen Fenemore) has already bought one and Frankie snatches it off him and runs off with it, with Ronnie in hot pursuit. Ronnie chases Frankie into a large, bombed out house and they are running about in the ruins when Ronnie slips and falls thirty feet to his death. Frankie scrambles down to help, but realises that there is nothing he can do. Hiding in the shadows and seeing it all, Len Turner (William Sylvester), a criminal on the run and using the ruins as a hideout from the police, convinces Frankie that the police will arrest the boy and charge him with the murder of his friend for pushing him to his death and that they must both make their getaway. Although Frankie and Len agree it was an accident, Len is adamant that the police will not see it that way and Frankie goes off with him. Len blackmails Frankie into stealing money from his parents (Kenneth More and Kathleen Ryan) to help fund Len’s escape and then uses the boy as a decoy in a pub robbery that goes horribly wrong when Len murders the publican. Realising that Frankie is the only witness to his crime, Len knows he must kill the boy, too.
Forces' Sweetheart (1953)
Directed by Maclean Rogers
Genres Comedy
Actors Hy Hazell, Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine, Freddie Frinton, Molly Weir, Graham Stark
Roles Judy James
Rating43%
The Franchise Affair (1951)
, 1h35Directed by Lawrence Huntington
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Anthony Nicholls, Athene Seyler, John Bailey, Kenneth More
Roles Mrs. Chadwick
Rating71%
In a quiet English town, schoolgirl Betty Kane (Ann Stephens) claims that the owners of an isolated house, spinster Marion Sharpe (Dulcie Gray) and Marion's mother (Marjorie Fielding), kidnapped and beat her. The police believe Betty's story, but local lawyer Robert Blair (Michael Denison), a bachelor, is sceptical. Risking ostracism from the community, Blair quietly sets about proving the innocence of the two women.
The Lady Craved Excitement (1950)
, 1hDirected by Godfrey Grayson, Francis Searle
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Hy Hazell, Michael Medwin, Sid James, Andrew Keir, Danny Green, John Longden
Roles Pat
Rating56%
Cabaret artists Pat and Johnny's careers are hampered by Pat's craving for excitement. She leads them into a number of dangerous situations, but also help to uncover a conspiracy to smuggle valuable works of art out of the country.
Paper Orchid (1949)
, 1h26Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Hugh Williams, Garry Marsh, Sid James, Hy Hazell, Andrew Cruickshank, Ivor Barnard
Roles Stella Mason
Rating59%
Just William's Luck (1947)
, 1h32Directed by Val Guest
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Garry Marsh, Jane Welsh, Hugh Cross, A. E. Matthews, Muriel Aked, Brian Roper
Roles Gabrielle Gaye
Rating62%
William and his gang, "The Outlaws" investigate a haunted house.
Meet Me at Dawn (1947)
, 1h39Directed by Thornton Freeland
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure
Actors William Eythe, Stanley Holloway, Hazel Court, Beatrice Campbell, Basil Sydney, Margaret Rutherford
Rating57%
My Learned Friend (1943)
, 1h14Directed by Basil Dearden, Will Hay
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Will Hay, Ronald Shiner, Charles Victor, Claude Hulbert, Eddie Phillips, Mervyn Johns
Roles Bit Part
Rating69%
This comedy sees Will Hay playing a seedy lawyer, who finds himself marked for assassination by a forger whom he previously defended unsuccessfully. He teams up with an incompetent solicitor to try to prevent the deaths of others involved.