Ingrid Pitt

[Trevor]

I heard from Ingrid by e-mail about a month ago (January 2010). She has suffered with various ailments for a long time now. I hope that she is okay.

[markrgv]

I have been reading on the Classic Horror Film Board that she is very ill.

Ingrid Pitt - Hammer Horror - The Silver Age of Horror - Classic Horror Film Board - Message Board Yuku

I wish her well.

I hope she can make a good recovery. It does not sound good on that site.



I met her a few years ago and she was very nice and talked to me about Richard Burton (as I had been asking about Where Eagles Dare) for a long while. Also got some nice items autographed.



Get well soon.



Mark.

[harryfielder]

Get well soon Ingrid, all of our best wishes.....



Aitch,

[silverwhistle]

Sorry to hear this!

[wellendcanons]

My very best wishes to you Ingrid. I have had much enjoyment from your fabulous work. Hope you make a speedy recovery.



wellendcanons.

[lovegod]

But was nt Ingrid Pitt the heart and soul of the Hammer Babes..... ?

Very well endowed as I recall too !... a speaker of no less than 6 languages...

a novelist... The Perons..... The Cuckoo Run....

Is there no end to this woman's talent ?

I think... To Love a Vampire.... was her very first appearance in Hammer

(Kate O'Mara was in it too )

[Briant]

Ingrid is due to appear in Brighton at the end of this month 25th/28th 2010, according to



Horror film memorabilia and merchandise featuring Hammer Horror's Countess Dracula - Ingrid Pitt

[Trevor]

I'm very happy to report that Ingrid is feeling better, according to her P.A.



Some good news for a change!

[smudge]

VERY good news! Thanks, Trevor.



Smudge

[wellendcanons]

That's fabulous news. Thanks Trevor.



wellendcanons.

[zorro2566]

Whilst watching my Ironside season one boxset,I was surprised to see Ingrid Pitt appear in the episode The Fourteenth Runner. There are not too many instances of predominately British based actors appearing in hit American programmes,I can recall Jean Marsh in an episode of the Twilight Zone and Barry Morse was in the Saint during his time in The Fugitive.

[agutterfan]

Whilst watching my Ironside season one boxset,I was surprised to see Ingrid Pitt appear in the episode The Fourteenth Runner. There are not too many instances of predominately British based actors appearing in hit American programmes,I can recall Jean Marsh in an episode of the Twilight Zone and Barry Morse was in the Saint during his time in The Fugitive.

This was when she was living in the US, she married an American serviceman called Pitt (her real surname being Petrov). She was also in one episode of the USTV series "Dundee and the Culhane".

[agutterfan]

I did have concerns about her some years ago when she was interviewed by Gloria Hunniford. One of the posters at the place Stephen linked mentioned her breathing and I recall that she seemed to be 'hyperventilating' quite a lot when answering most of Gloria's questions. "Are you okay (to continue), Ingrid?", she asked at one point. If memory serves, the actress was recounting some terrible childhood experience caused by the Nazis. Sorry I can't be more specific. I thought it might have been a pre-recorded interview but the more I think about it was Live, on Gloria's Open House show, most like.

I remember watching this. It was actually "This Morning", the period was during the Serbian invasions of Bosnia an Croatia. I think the TV news the day before had shown the Serbian "concentration camps" and Ingrid was upset that the West was allowing this to happen again (she had spent her early childhood in a Nazi death camp). I completely agreed with her. She was on ostensibly to plug her autobiography but she was genuinely very upset about recent events. Sadly, she is now no longer with us.

[cornershop15]

Thinking about it, agutterfan, I'm sure the programme I saw was Open House as my memory is of a Live show with a studio audience, which This Morning doesn't have. Gloria Hunniford has presented that programme a few times so she may well have interviewed Ingrid Pitt twice when the actress was 'doing the rounds', i.e. promoting her book. I remember her talking about the traumatic experiences of her childhood but not what she'd been watching on the news.

The post you replied to has had a curious effect. I could have sworn Ingrid died some months before my mother, and yet, looking at the date of her death, it was just two weeks after. It's more than likely I've been thinking about the earlier posts/tributes where a lot of concern was expressed for Ingrid's poor health. Still saddened by her death but several more Hammer blows have been dealt with the loss of actresses such as Susannah York, Anne Francis and, in the last week, Margaret Tyzack and Anna Massey. These are truly miserable times for fans of past greats. To cheer ourselves up, in the only way I know how, a reminder of happier days, when Ingrid was making some classic British films.

Publicity stills for 'Where Eagles Dare' (1968)

As Heidi, a barmaid who is also an MI6 agent:


With Clint Eastwood as Lt. Morris Schaffer:

[billy farmer]

A TV Times article about Ingrid Pitt from the February 8th - 14th 1975 issue of TV Times.

[Edward G]

Great post Billy - Ingrid Pitt was far more than just a beautiful woman. Honest, thoughtful and classy.