TODAY MARKS the late Kate O'Mara's birthday.... Her earliest television
appearances, includes guest roles in 'Danger Man', 'Adam Adamant Lives!',
'The Saint', 'Z-Cars' and 'The Avengers'. Look carefully and you'll spot her
in the crowd of ale swiggers in Cushing's / Hammer films CAPTAIN CLEGG. She also worked with Cushing in the film, CORRUPTION and in 1970, she
appeared in two Hammer films films THE VAMPIRE LOVERS and 'The Horror of
Frankenstein'. In the former, she had an erotically charged
scene with Ingrid Pitt, in which O'Mara was meant to be seduced; the
two women were left laughing on set, however, as Pitt's fangs kept
falling into O'Mara's cleavage. O'Mara's work in 'The Vampire Lovers'
impressed Hammer enough for them to offer her a contract, which she
turned down, fearful of being typecast!
ABOVE a smashing photograph of actress KATE O'MARA, standing outside the WATFORD ODEON CINEMA back in October 1970, posing with poster of Hammer films, 'THE VAMPIRE LOVERS'.
IN BETWEEN APPEARANCES in the BBC 'Doctor Who', she played Caress Morell
in the American primetime soap opera 'Dynasty'. After returning to the UK,
she was cast as another scheming villain, Laura Wilde, in the BBC soap
'Howards' Way' (1989–90). Kate O'Mara passed on 30th March 2014 aged 74.
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