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Ingrid Pitt obituary - The Guardian
Actor who gained a cult following playing lusty vampires in Hammer horror films.
In the late 1960s, when audiences were
increasingly able to tolerate and even demand
more graphic violence and sexuality from
mainstream Hollywood films, the British company
Hammer Film Productions, known as the "House of
Hotrror decided to compete by playing up the erotic and
gory content of their baroque films. During the
scream factory's last gasp period, the erupting
female sexuality of young, curvaceous victims of
predatory males was common. The voluptuous Ingrid
Pitt, who has died aged 73, was fortunate enough
to be cast as a perpetrator rather than a victim.
Pitt's reputation, which has been somewhat
inflated by horror-movie freaks and camp
followers, is largely based on two Hammer movies,
The Vampire Lovers (1970) and Countess Dracula
(1971). She was able
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Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid Pitt
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Ingrid Pitt
Ingoushka Petrov Born 21 November 1937 Warsaw, Poland
Died
23 November 2010 (aged 73) South London, England
Occupation
Actress, writer
Years active
19642010
Laud Roland Pitt Jr (divorced) Spouse(s) George Pinches (divorced) Tony Rudlin
Children
Steffanie Pitt-Blake
Ingrid Pitt (21 November 1937 23 November 2010) was an actress best known for her work in horror films of the 1960s and 1970s.[1]
Contents
1 Background 2 Acting career 3 Writing career 4 Personal life 5 Death 6 Legacy project 7 Filmography 8 Bibliography (partial) 9 References 10 External links
Background
Pitt was born Ingoushka Petrov in Warsaw, Poland, to a German father of Russian descent and a Polish Jewish mother.[2] During World War II, she and her family were imprisoned in a concentration camp. She survived; and, in Berlin in the 1950s, married an American soldier and moved to California. After her marriage failed, she returned to E
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Ingrid Pitt
Polish-British actress (1937–2010)
Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 1937 – 23 November 2010) was a Polish-British actress and writer, best known for her work in British horror cinema of the 1970s.[1]
Early life
[edit]Ingoushka Petrov was born in Warsaw, Poland, one of two daughters, to a German father of Russian ancestry, and a PolishJewish mother.[2]
During World War II, she and her mother were imprisoned in Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo, Free City of Danzig (present-day Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)[1] but escaped.[3]
In Berlin, in the 1950s, Ingoushka married an American soldier, Laud Roland Pitt Jr., and moved to California. After her marriage ended she returned to Europe where she took a small role in a film and adopted the stage name "Ingrid Pitt". She headed to Hollywood where she worked as a waitress while trying to make a career in films.&