Virginia Maskell
Virginia Elizabeth Maskell (1936–1968) was an English actress, poet and artist. After attending drama school she featured in several television roles. Her film debut was a minor role for director Roy Boulting in Happy Is the Bride (1957), after which she began switching between the theatre and the screen.
She gained a British Lion contract and appeared in The Man Upstairs (1958) and as an air hostess in Jet Storm (1959). She made an impact on the stage in Ronald Duncan's The Catalyst, a play that initially the Lord Chamberlain's office had found troubling. There were distinguished appearances in live TV drama. She starred in Doctor in Love (1960), and as Peter Sellers's wife in Only Two Can Play (1962). She took a break from acting in 1962 to concentrate on her family, and returned after the birth of her second son to shoot Interlude (1968).
In January of 1968, Maskell was reported missing. Police searched woods 700 feet up in the Chiltern Hills after her car was found a mile from her home. She apparently had wandered through the woods for hours before collapsing. She was taken to hospital and given emergency treatment for an overdose of barbiturates, but passed away the following day at the age of 31.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.3 |
Birthday | 1936-02-28 |
Place of Birth | Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK |
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1960
Doctor in Love
5.5/12
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1962
Only Two Can Play
5.8/25
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Only Two Can Play
1958
The Man Upstairs
6.1/9
The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist w...
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The Man Upstairs
1960
Suspect
6.5/10
A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he...
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Suspect
1959
Virgin Island
5/2
A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.
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Virgin Island
1968
Interlude
5.8/10
A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.
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Interlude
1962
The Wild and the Willing
5.7/3
Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play '...
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The Wild and the Willing
1958
Happy Is the Bride
5.7/3
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Happy Is the Bride
1959
Jet Storm
6.5/10
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
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