Verna Harvey

[Wheelieman]

Anyone know what became of her? She played the teenage daughter in Beryl's Lot, & around the same time was splendidly topless in Assassin, playing opposite Ian Hendry, and in Superbitch.

[Wheelieman]

I used to have a 'thing' about her when she was in 'Beryl's Lot'.



Are there any surviving episodes out there?



I've got Super Bitch, Chato's Land, an episode of Target & That'll be the Day.



Evidently 'Assassin' has disappeared off the face of the earth

[wellendcanons]

Verna Harvey also appeared in "Assassin" as Ian Hendry's girlfriend. She had a nice topless scene too. The trouble is it's never been available on video or DVD. One of my favourite actors Mike Pratt is also an assassin in that film as well as Ian Hendry.



wellendcanons.

[Lord Brett]

Verna Harvey also appeared in "Assassin" as Ian Hendry's girlfriend. She had a nice topless scene too. The trouble is it's never been available on video or DVD.

Funnily enough, that's about the only scene I can remember from the film when I say it on TV donkeys years ago. I'd love to see them... er...it again!

[batman]

Verna was very good in Michael Winner's The Nightcomers with Marlon Brando.

[Wheelieman]

Back when I was a spotty teenager I fell madly in lust with this blue-eyed, blond actress. She was in a soapy drama called 'Beryl's Lot', along with Carmel McSharry, Robin Aswith and (I think) Tony Caunter.



Subsequently I tracked her down in an episode of 'Target' and (as a juvenile) in 'The Nightcomers'. I heard she had done a film with Ian Hendry called 'Assassin', but have never seen it & can't find a copy anywhere.



Does anyone know what became of her?

[wearysloth]

as Wendy in That'll be the Day



No further info, alas

[Wheelieman]

Thanks for that. The spotty-faced teenager in me has been rekinkled

[wearysloth]

LITTLE MISS INNOCENT

IT'S six years since

Verna Harvey was

thirteen. And she has

developed nicely as an

actress as time has

gone by.

But movie men keep

c a s t i n g her as a

thirteen - y e a r - o i d

innocent.

Verna has just

finished work in Spain

on her latest little-girl

role.

Now she's back

home in B a n s t e a d,

Surrey—wondering if

a n y o n e is casting

around for a curvy,

grown-up, nineteen year-

old girl.

~Daily Mirror, July 02, 1971



Lucky 13 for Verna

VERNA HARVEY,

who plays Rosie, a

highly moral young lady,

in tonight's BERYL'S

LOT (ITV, 8.30, most

regions) has done well out

of her little-girl looks.

Though she is twenty-one

she still gets parts

which require her'to

look like a schoolgirl.

In two films—" The

Nightcomers," with

Marlon Brando, and

" Chato's Land "—she

appeared as a 13-year-old.

The daughter of a

Surrey doctor, Verna

made her acting debut

at the Mermaid Theatre

in London at the age

of thirteen. Her lucky

age, it seems.

~Daily Mirror Jan 10, 1974

[cornershop15]

Excellent research, wearysloth

[cornershop15]

Rather strange that pitters should start three threads for Verna Harvey Two of them in just three months!



This is a publicity photo for Beryl's Lot:

[cornershop15]

Just as I hoped. Thanks

Original version:

Just as I hoped. Thanks

I think that's the only smilie that looks different after one of those forum changes. If memory serves, the original generic smilies had 'big grin' and you had to go through the whole list to find the identical (and more durable) 'thumbsup'.

TVTimes listing, 14th January 1974

Another preview for Beryl's Lot :

[Euryale]

My guess is that Verna is alive and well and living in the States!

The first clue comes here:

Verna Harvey Gindoff | LinkedIn

This lady says that she was educated at the Arts Educational Trust, London, England. A 1966 edition of Spotlight does indeed state that that is where our Verna was educated.

I've across comments by Verna Harvey Gindoff on various websites that confirm she is British-born.

Then there's the visual clues of pictures taken of VHG in recent times:





I think that could definitely be our Verna in later years.

VHG refers to her husband as 'Bryan'. I'm guessing this may be him:

Bryan Gindoff - IMDb

It appears that Verna lives in Austin, Texas now.

But as they say at the end of mystery stories - "Readers must decide for themselves"!


E.

[smudge]

For me, puzzles have to be solved - especially ones such as these - so I dared to e-mail the lady at her Linked-in profile. I'll let you know if I fall flat on my face...

Smudge