"Pitt is survived by her second husband, her daughter Steffanie, and a granddaughter.
She was a fantastic person." In the last scene, the peasants curse her as "devil woman" and "Countess Dracula". Monlaur, the female lead, is otherwise powerless to do anything in the presence of the oddly blue-eyed, blonde-haired vampire. Dobi then shows Elisabeth to Toth to steer him away from her. Pitt was rescued by a handsome U.S. lieutenant, who she would later marry.Pitt moved to America, and — following the breakup of her marriage — to Spain, where she starred in her first movies despite a limited command of the language. It seems her mother would have agreed, writing in her autobiography, "Life's a Scream," that she had a "strong sense of the dramatic even before I was born. Elisabeth, Dobi and her maid are sentenced to death for their crimes and are last seen awaiting the hangman in their cell. Steffanie said she wanted her mother to be remembered as the Countess Dracula with the "wonderful teeth and the wonderful bosom". LONDON Ingrid Pitt, who survived a Nazi concentration camp and dodged Communist police to become one of Britain's best-known horror stars, died Tuesday, her daughter said. Dobi finds Fabio, who has a book-chapter about blood sacrifices and tells Elisabeth the truth in return for being allowed to live. The World War II drama would eventually lead to her being taken on by Britain's Hammer Films — home to Christopher Lee's "Dracula." Elisabeth forces Toth into marrying her, but her daughter Ilona arrives home, having been freed by a repentant Julie. ... she got a divorce and returned to Europe with her daughter, Steffanie. Pitt embraced it, writing occasional columns for websites such as "Den of Geek" and making frequent visits to conventions and festivals. There's even Lesley-Anne Down who appears briefly as Pitt's daughter. He says only a virgin sacrifice will help Elisabeth remain young and beautiful. She was 73.Steffanie Pitt said her mother collapsed while on her way to a birthday dinner due to be held in her honor over the weekend. The film was produced by Alexander Paal and directed by As a cover for her crimes while in her rejuvenated state, she takes the identity of her own daughter, Countess Ilona, whom she has Dobi hold captive in the woods. Pitt, who survived a Nazi concentration camp to become an acclaimed British movie actress, has died. She survived the war, but was forced to flee Communist Berlin on the night of her planned stage debut, plunging into the River Spree in a bid to escape East German authorities. She added: "She had a couple of bad years, health-wise, but she had fought through.She'll be sorely missed." The cause of death wasn't known, although Steffanie Pitt said her mother had recently been in poor health.Known in Britain principally as the buxom bloodsucker in "Vampire Lovers" and "Countess Dracula," Ingrid Pitt's acting career very nearly wasn't.Born to a mother of Jewish descent, Pitt was interned in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of five. ... She and her boyfriend have one son and one daughter, and she gave a daughter up for adoption. However, castle historian Fabio grows suspicious. All rights reserved (Polish-born actress Ingrid Pitt in a 1968 photo. Ingrid Pitt and Madeline Smith in The Vampire Lovers (1970) Ingrid Pitt as Countess Elisabeth Nadasdy (Voice dubbed by Olive Gregg, uncredited); Nigel Green as Captain Dobi, the castle steward; Sandor Elès as Lt. Imre Toth; Maurice Denham as Grand Master Fabio, castle historian; Patience Collier as Julie Szentes, the Nurse; Lesley-Anne Down as Countess Ilona Nadasdy, Elisabeth's daughter; Peter Jeffrey as Captain Balogh, chief bailiff Hungarian Peter Sasdy's direction is atmospheric with some occasional knockout camerawork. All lies, of course, but sweet. She then kills more virgins, from peasant girls to the servant girls in the palace. Discovered while watching a bullfight, a career in Hollywood and British horror would follow.Although Pitt had a series of other roles in film and on television, it was her 1970s vampire films which drew a cult following, with fans crowning her "England's first lady of horror."
Still, this is quite romantic compared to the degradation, humiliation, and rape of Yvonne Romain as the mute jailor’s daughter in Curse of the Werewolf (1961).
"It's great meeting the fans," Pitt was quoted as saying on her fansite, "Pitt of Horror." Eventually, she kills a prostitute called Ziza, but her blood does not restore the Countess like the others. Cast. She was 73. Fabio tries to tell Toth the truth about his lover, but Dobi kills Fabio before he can do so. An argument could be made on which of the two is stranger and more exciting, mysterious, terrifying and eclectic--the reel adventures of movie star Ingrid Pitt or the real life adventures of daughter, wife, mother and new grandmother Ingrid Pitt.
The voluptuous Ingrid Pitt, who has died aged 73, was fortunate enough to be cast as a perpetrator rather than a victim.
Ingrid Pitt, who died on November 23 aged 73, survived a wartime Nazi concentration camp and went on to star as the voluptuous bloodsucker in several … In a twist which easily surpassed the drama of the camp horror films in which she starred, she was rescued by an American soldier who would go on to become her husband.Her movie career was jump-started by her role in the 1968 action-adventure movie, "Where Eagles Dare."
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