Veronica Carlson
Born: 1944-09-18 in Emley, Yorkshire, England, UK
Died: 2022-02-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2021
- Night of the Devil as Dr. Whittingham
2019
- House of the Gorgon as Anna Banning
2018
2016
- Creature Features as Self
- Stellar Quasar and the Scrolls of Dadelia as Sayang
2012
- Celluloid Bloodbath as Self
2008
- Fanex Files: Hammer Films as Self
2006
2000
- The Many Faces of Dracula as Maria (archive footage)
1995
- Freakshow as Grace Harmsworth
1994
- Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror ... (Thanks)
1992
- Fangs! A History of Vampires in the Movies as Hostess / Narrator
1991
- Frankenstein: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Anna Spengler / Elizabeth Heiss (archive footage)
- Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook as Maria (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
- Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You as Liz
- The Horror of Frankenstein as Elizabeth Heiss
1969
- Department S as Gina
- Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed as Anna Spengler
- The Best House in London as Lilly (uncredited)
- Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) as Suzanne
- Crossplot as Dinah
1968
- Hammerhead as Ulla
- Dracula Has Risen from the Grave as Maria Mueller
1967
- Casino Royale as Tall Blonde (uncredited)
- Smashing Time as Actress at Movie Premiere
- The Magnificent Two as Revolutionary (uncredited)
1965
- Public Eye as Ingrid Borg
1962
- The Saint as Vanessa Longman