Ingrid Pitt
Overview
- Occupation Actress
- Also Writer, Producer
- Birthname Natasha Petrovana
- Birthdate November 21, 1937
- Birthplace Poland
- Died November 23, 2010 (London, England, UK)
- Character Heidi Schmidt
Biography
Ingrid Pitt dates her birth to november 1945. Early publicity reports date her birth to 1943 and that she was born on a concentration camp train through Europe. But November 1945, when Pitt dates her birth, the concentration camps were abolished.
After the war Ingrid Pitt became a leading actress on the stages in East Berlin. Her first movie was a Spanish bullfighting picture. She settled down in Spain and spent many years playing decorative roles in many International well-knowed pictures like Doctor Zhivago, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Chimes at Midnight and Where Eagles Dare.
Her big break-through came with her roles in horror films. With those roles he attained ”cult” status among gothic horror fans. They love her sensuous and stylish work in films like The Vampire Lovers (in which, as lesbian vampire Carmilla, she literally loses her head to Christopher Lee), Countess Dracula and The Wicker Man.
For the televiewers she is most famous for her role as Elvira in Smiley’s Peiple. A British miniseries from 1982.
Selected films
- Doctor Who (TV-series) - 1963
- Sonido prehist—rico, El - 1964
- Doctor Zhivago - 1965
- Splendour of Andalucia, The - 1965
- Los Duendes de Andaluc’a - 1965
- Beso en el puerto, Un - 1965
- Campanadas a medanoche - 1965
- Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A - 1966
- Omegans, The - 1968
- Where Eagles Dare - 1969
- Vampire Lovers, The - 1970
- House That Dripped Blood, The - 1970
- Countess Dracula - 1970
- Jason King (TV-series) - 1971
- Nobody Ordered Love - 1971
- Wicker Man, The - 1973
- Artemis 81 (TV) - 1981
- Smiley's People (TV-series) - 1982
- Final Option, The - 1982
- Who Dares Wins - 1982
- Comedy of Errors, The (TV) - 1983
- Bones - 1984
- House, The (TV) - 1984
- Underworld - 1985
- Wild Geese II - 1985
- Bulman (TV-series) - 1985
- Hanna's War - 1988
- Asylum, The - 2000
Curiosa
- According to early publicity reports, Polish actress Ingrid Pitt was born in 1943 while her parents were being shipped to a Nazi concentration camp. However, Ms. Pitt currently lists her date of birth as November of 1945, by which time the camps had been abolished.
- She has a daughter named Steffanie Pitt.
- Ingrid Pitt has written several books, mainly in the horror genre.
- She did monthly column in Shivers magazine and appears at horror conventions.
- She lived in London.