Imogen Hassall(1942-1980)

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Imogen Hassall is sometimes referred to as "The Countess of Cleavage" as she was better known for her glamorous celebrity than her acting talent. Imogen was born on August 25 1942, in Woking, Surrey, England and rose to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an international B-movie starlet. To her frustration, her fame was brief and she never became a star in her own right. She died at age 38, in London on November 16 1980, after taking an overdose of sleeping pills.

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Known for

Toomorrow

5.1

1970

Carry on Loving

5.9

Jenny Grubb

1970

The Avengers

8.3

TV Series

Anjali

Girly

6.5

Girlfriend

1970

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Actress

Undercover Lover
4.3
- Miss Martin
- 1979
White Cargo
3.8
- Stella
- 1973
...And Mother Makes Three
7.3
TV Series
- Virginia
- 1972
Images
TV Movie
- 1972
Jason King
6.8
TV Series
- Gina
- 1972
The Persuaders!
8.0
TV Series
- Maria
- 1971
Blood Suckers
4.0
- Chriseis
- 1971
Take a Girl Like You
5.5
- Samantha
- 1970
Carry on Loving
5.9
- Jenny Grubb
- 1970
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
5.2
- Ayak
- 1970
Toomorrow
5.1
- Amy
- 1970
El Condor
6.0
- Dolores
- 1970
The Virgin and the Gypsy
6.0
- The Gypsy's Wife
- 1970
Softly Softly: Task Force
7.2
TV Series
- Molly Carson
- 1970
Girly
6.5
- Girlfriend
- 1970

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Alternative name
- Imogen Hassell
Height
- 5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
Born
- August 25, 1942
- Woking, Surrey, England, UK
Died
- November 16, 1980
- Wimbledon, London, England, UK(suicide by overdose)
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Trivia
Hassall was found by Suzanna Leigh in her Wimbledon cottage after she arrived to embark with Hassall on a holiday to Mombassa, Kenya. Hassall had recently been very depressed over the failure of her second marriage and her inability to find consistent, full-time acting work in several years. Police said she was found in bed, with a telephone in one hand and an empty bottle of pills in the other. Friends said that she had been hospitalized the week before for one of several suicide attempts.