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Honor Blackman
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Born: Dec 12, 1927
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Honor Blackman was born in London, England, UK. Her stylish allure over the years cannot be denied. Receiving diction lessons as a teenager, she later attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She temporarily followed in her father's footsteps with a job in the Civil Service, then worked as a dispatch rider during the war. This is where she developed some of her trademark athleticism.
Honor received her first acting work in London's West End as an understudy in the play 'The Guinea Pig" and continued on with roles in "The Gleam" in 1946 and "The Blind Goddess" the following year. Films soon came a reality making her debut in Fame Is the Spur starring Michael Redgrave. In this picture, she dies in a horse-riding accident. It was the beginning of a strange pattern for Honor in which many of her movie damsels would meet untimely deaths. Signed up with the Rank Organization, she joined several other starlet hopefuls in being groomed for better things. She was initially cast as demure, pleasant young things or "English Rose" types and received dependable but unmemorable co-star billing in such films as Daughter of Darkness, Quartet, A Boy, a Girl and a Bike, So Long at the Fair and Green Grow the Rushes, the last starring a young Richard Burton. Hollywood also took brief notice where she was cast as the second lead femme in MGM's Conspirator starring Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Taylor.
She began to rebuild her career in films and on TV with roles in rather obligatory "B" level fare. This culminated in a co-starring role in one of the more famous retellings of the tragic Titanic story, A Night to Remember which co-starred Kenneth More and David McCallum. Developing a solid footing again , she filmed The Square Peg with comedian Norman Wisdom and A Matter of Who with Terry-Thomas. TV series work came her way as well, none more suitable than her role as the leather-clad Mrs. Cathy Gale in the highly popular The Avengers co-starring Patrick Macnee as John Steed. He...[MORE]
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Honor Blackman Nude and Sexy
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