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Hazel Court (born February 10, 1926 in Sutton
Coldfield, Birmingham, England) is a green-eyed,
redheaded Britain|British actress who is known for
her roles in horror films during the 1950s.

Her father was a notable cricket player. At the
age of fourteen she studied drama at the
Birmingham Repertory Theater and the Alexander
Theater, also in Birmingham. At the age of sixteen
she met the director Sir Anthony Asquith in
London, which won her a brief part in the 1944
film Champagne Charlie (film)|Champagne Charlie.

She won a British Critics Award for her role as a
crippled girl in Carnival (1946). She also
appeared in Holiday Camp (1947) and Bond Street
(1948). Her first role in a fantasy film was in
The Ghost Ship (1953). She also appeared in the
campy Devil Girl from Mars and Doctor Blood's
Coffin.

Hazel Court wanted to act in comedy films, and
from 1957 to 1958 she was in the TV comedy series
Dick and the Duchess. But she continued to appear
in horror movies. In 1957 she had a part in the
film  The Curse of Frankenstein, where she gained
the status of a "cult siren", partly due to her
display of cleavage.

She travelled back and forth between Hollywood and
England, appearing in four episodes of Alfred
Hitchcock's TV series. She had parts in A Woman of
Mystery (1958) and The Man Who Would Cheat Death
(1959) among others.

By the early 1960s she had permanently moved to
the US.  She was featured in the Edgar Allen Poe
horror movies The Premature Burial (1962), The
Raven (1963 movie)|The Raven (1963) and The Masque
of the Red Death (1964), the last two with Vincent
Price. 

From 1949 until 1963 she was married to
Ireland|Irish actor Dermot Walsh, before they
divorced. They had a daughter, Sally Walsh, who
appeared with her in the film The Curse of
Frankenstein.

From 1964 until his death in 1998, she was married
to American actor Don Taylor. She retired from the
film acting business in 1964 to concentrate on
being a wife and mother. They had met while
shooting an Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode, and
the couple had a son together.

In 1981 she appeared briefly in the third The
Omen|Omen film, Omen III: The Final Conflict |The
Final Conflict, although she was uncredited. She
has also appeared in numerous TV episodes,
including Dr. Kildare, Twelve O'Clock High, and
The Twilight Zone.

In addition to acting, she is also a painter and
sculptor, and has studied sculpting in Italy.

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