Veronica Carlson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Veronica Carlson (born 18 September 1944 in Yorkshire, England) was an English model and actress, famous for her roles in Hammer horror films. Born as Veronica Mary Glazer, Veronica Carlson spent most of her childhood in Germany where her father was stationed. She attended the Thetford Girls' School and later, High Wycombe College of Technology and Design, where she studied art and participated in college amateur productions. In her mid-twenties, Veronica played a few minor parts in movies and television programmes. James Carreras, the boss of Hammer Films, saw one of her photographs in a newspaper and offered her a role opposite Christopher Lee in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave. She was best-known in the late 1960s for a series of roles in three Hammer Horror films, including Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) and The Horror of Frankenstein (1970). She also appeared in the Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode "The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo" in 1969 and an episode of The Saint ("The Man who Gambled with Life") with Roger Moore and also an episode of Department S ("The Double Death of Charlie Crippen"). Veronica Carlson went into semi-retirement after marrying and moving to the U.S.. She lived in South Carolina with her husband and three children and was a professional painter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Veronica Carlson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- 2019 · House of the Gorgon as Anna Banning
- 2018 · Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros. Years as Self
- 2016 · Creature Features as Self
- 2016 · Stellar Quasar and the Scrolls of Dadelia as Sayang
- 2012 · Celluloid Bloodbath as Self
- 2008 · Fanex Files: Hammer Films as Self
- 2006 · Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills as Self
- 2000 · The Many Faces of Dracula as Maria (archive footage)
- 1995 · Freakshow as Grace Harmsworth
- 1992 · Fangs! A History of Vampires in the Movies as Hostess / Narrator
- 1991 · Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Maria (archive footage)
- 1991 · Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Anna Spengler / Elizabeth Heiss (archive footage)
- 1987 · Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood as Self (archive footage)
- 1975 · The Ghoul as Daphne Welles Hunter
- 1974 · Vampira as Ritva
- 1972 · Spyder's Web as Wallis Ackroyd
- 1970 · The Horror of Frankenstein as Elizabeth Heiss
- 1970 · Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You as Liz
- 1969 · Crossplot as Dinah
- 1969 · Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as Suzanne
- 1969 · Department S as Gina
- 1969 · Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed as Anna Spengler
- 1969 · The Best House in London as Lily
- 1968 · Dracula Has Risen from the Grave as Maria Mueller
- 1968 · Hammerhead as Ulla
- 1967 · Smashing Time as Actress at Movie Premiere
- 1967 · The Magnificent Two as Revolutionary (uncredited)
- 1967 · Casino Royale as Tall Blonde (uncredited)
- 1965 · Public Eye as Ingrid Borg
- 1962 · The Saint as Vanessa Longman
- Future · The Rectory as Lady Whitehouse