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Luan Peters is a Actor British born on 18 june 1946 at Bethnal Green (United-kingdom)

Luan Peters

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Birth name Carol A. Hirsch
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 18 june 1946 at Bethnal Green (United-kingdom)
Death 19 december 2017 (at 71 years)

Luan Peters (born 18 June 1946, Bethnal Green, London), also known as Karol Keyes, is an English actress and singer.

Biography

Born as Carol Hirsch, she made her stage debut in a pantomime aged four, then went on to win a drama scholarship at age 16 after a performance of Twelfth Night.

She started singing in a band for £2 a night as a way of earning extra money while attending drama school. Her singing career began in Manchester, where under the name Karol Keyes (named after her management Keystone Promotions), she fronted “Karol Keyes and the Big Sound”, a band previously known as “The Fat Sound”. One of her first records was an Ike & Tina Turner number called "A Fool in Love" on Columbia. She left that band in June 1966. A year later, she joined Joan Littlewood’s drama school at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.

In 1970, she starred in the 13-part television series Go Girl, as a go-go dancer who finds herself involved in action-oriented story lines. The series was beset by problems, which included the financiers backing out, the production running out of money, and the actors' union closing the production down. The series was never broadcast. The pilot episode only saw the light of day more than a decade after it was made, when it was released twice on UK video in the early 1980s - once under the title Give Me a Ring Sometime (which is actually just the pilot episode title) and on the second occasion as Passport to Murder.

Peters is known for her appearances in Hammer horror films of the 1970s such as Lust for a Vampire and Twins of Evil. Other film credits include Man of Violence, Freelance, Not Tonight Darling, The Flesh and Blood Show, Vampira, Land of the Minotaur, The Wildcats of St Trinian's and Pacific Banana.

Her stage work includes A Man Most Likely To (1969, with George Cole), Pyjama Tops (1969), Decameron 73 (1973), playing Linda McCartney in John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert (1974), Tom Stoppard's Dirty Linen (1976), Shut Your Eyes And Think Of England! (1978) and Funny Peculiar (1985).

She was also active on television in series such as: Z-Cars, Public Eye, Doctor Who (in the serials Frontier in Space and The Macra Terror), Target, The Professionals and the Fawlty Towers episode The Psychiatrist playing Raylene Miles, an Australian tourist. Her last known television role was in an episode in The Bill in 1990. In 2005 she was interviewed for the documentary Fawlty Towers Revisited.

In 1975 she fronted the band 5000 Volts and appeared on Top of the Pops singing their hit song “I’m on Fire”; however, the actual vocalist was Tina Charles. Peters continued to release singles (mainly in Europe) throughout the decade.

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Filmography of Luan Peters (8 films)

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The Wildcats of St. Trinian's, 1h31
Directed by Frank Launder
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors Sheila Hancock, Michael Hordern, Thorley Walters, Rodney Bewes, Maureen Lipman, Julia McKenzie
Roles Miss Poppy Adams
Rating38% 1.914941.914941.914941.914941.91494
The girls of St. Trinian's hatch yet another fiendish plot—a trade union for British schoolgirls. Their friend and mentor, Flash Harry, suggests a plan which involves kidnapping girls from other rather more respectable colleges and substituting their own "agents". Thus begins a hilarious, often bloody, battle of wits as the girls meet resistance not only from Olga Vandermeer, their Headmistress, but from the Minister of Education, a private detective, and an oil sheikh. Despite all his desperate efforts to foil the conspiracy, the Minister has to face a growing realisation that the girls' demands will have to be met—for him this will mean a very great and very personal sacrifice.
The Devil's Men, 1h35
Directed by Kostas Karagiannis
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Horror
Actors Donald Pleasence, Peter Cushing, Luan Peters
Roles Laurie Gordon
Rating42% 2.1083452.1083452.1083452.1083452.108345
Tourists visiting a Greek archeological site are being abducted by a strange cult, intent on providing their God - the Minotaur - with sacrifice. Irish priest Father Roche (Donald Pleasence) enlists the help of former pupil and a private detective to find out what has happened to them.
Vampira
Vampira (1974)
, 1h28
Directed by Clive Donner
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Dracula films, Vampires in film, Comedy horror films
Actors David Niven, Teresa Graves, Jennie Linden, Veronica Carlson, Nicky Henson, Linda Hayden
Roles Pottinger's Secretary
Rating44% 2.214272.214272.214272.214272.21427
Count Dracula is an old vampire who, because of his advanced age, is forced to host tours of his castle to get new victims. In an attempt to revive his long-lost love, Vampira, Dracula sets out to collect blood from the bevy of Playboy Playmates living at his castle. However, one of the Playmates whose blood is drained is black, turning the revived Vampira into a black woman.
The Flesh and Blood Show, 1h26
Directed by Pete Walker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Jenny Hanley, Ray Brooks, Luan Peters, Candace Glendenning, Robin Askwith, Tristan Rogers
Roles Carol Edwards
Rating54% 2.707082.707082.707082.707082.70708
A anonymous producer assembles a group of unemployed actors and actresses to be in a play, rehearsing in an abandoned theatre beside the sea. A murderer, who wears black gloves, kills all of the actors in various ways. The murderer is later revealed to have previously been an actor, who trapped his wife and her new lover in the wall, re-emerging 30 years later to commit murder again.
Lust for a Vampire, 1h31
Directed by Jimmy Sangster
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Vampires in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Yutte Stensgaard, Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford, Suzanna Leigh, Helen Christie, Pippa Steel
Roles Trudi
Rating57% 2.8516452.8516452.8516452.8516452.851645
In 1830, at a finishing school in Styria, Mircalla arrives as a new student. A visiting author, Richard Lestrange, instantly falls in love with her; but Mircalla is a vampire—Carmilla Karnstein—who has been resurrected by her vampiric family. As students in the school, inhabitants of the nearby village and those who suspect Mircalla is responsible start to die, suspicion turns toward the Karnsteins and their ominous castle.
Twins of Evil, 1h27
Directed by John Hough
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Vampires in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Peter Cushing, Dennis Price, David Warbeck, Kathleen Byron, Damien Thomas, Katya Wyeth
Roles Gerta
Rating66% 3.3000553.3000553.3000553.3000553.300055
Maria and Frieda, recently orphaned identical twin teenage girls, move from Venice to Karnstein in Central Europe to live with their uncle Gustav Weil. Weil is a stern puritan and leader of the fanatical witch-hunting 'Brotherhood'. Both twins resent their uncle's sternness and one of them, Frieda, looks for a way to escape. Resenting her uncle, she becomes fascinated by the local Count Karnstein, who has the reputation of being "a wicked man".
Freelance
Freelance (1970)
, 1h31
Directed by Francis Megahy
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Ian McShane, Gayle Hunnicutt, Keith Barron, Alan Lake, John Gilmore, Luan Peters
Roles Rosemary
Rating67% 3.3982853.3982853.3982853.3982853.398285
Mitch (McShane) is a London con-artist. When he witnesses a gangland hit, he is forced to lie low whilst trying to carry out his own various schemes. The film offers a portrayal of early 1970s west London.