Hammer films 'Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell' is
celebrating it's 40th anniversary this year since it's release in the US
and we'll be marking that in style next month. The last of the Hammer /
Cushing / Frankenstein series starring Peter Cushing, Shane Briant
and.... Madeline Smith.
Madeline Smith was born on 2nd August 1949. She worked as a
model in the 1960s, and appeared in many television series, Hammer
horror and comedy films from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Smith
was born in Hartfield, Sussex. Her father owned an antiques shop
near Kew Gardens, while she had a temporary job working at Biba's
boutique, a fashion house in Kensington High Street, London. In the late
1960s and early 1970s, Smith was frequently the subject of cartoons by J
Edward Oliver, which made constant admiring reference to her
disproportionately large bust. Smith first worked for Hammer films in
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969) as an East End prostitute, a
non-speaking role. In 1973 she played the Bond girl Miss Caruso in the
post-titles sequence of Live and Let Die, the first James Bond film
starring Roger Moore, and The Angel Sarah, in Hammer Films
'Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell with Peter Cushing and Shane
Briant in 1973.
Her television credits include Doctor at Large (1971), The Two Ronnies
(appearance in the serial "Hampton Wick" 1971), Clochemerle (1972), His
and Hers (1970) with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Casanova '73 (1973) with Leslie
Phillips, and The Steam Video Company (1984). She was a member of the
regular cast for the BBC2 series The End of the Pier Show (1974) and In
The Looking Glass (1978), along with John Wells, John Fortune and Carl
Davis. Smith made her last film, Eric Morecambe's final work, The
Passionate Pilgrim with Tom Baker, in 1984.
