Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 1937 â€" 23 November
2010) was a Polish-British actress, author and writer best known for
her work in horror films of the 1960s and 1970s.Ingoushka Petrov was
born in Warsaw, Poland, to a father of German Jewish descent and a
Polish Jewish mother. During World War II, she and her family were
imprisoned in Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo, Free City of
Danzig (present-day Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian
Voivodeship, Poland). She survived, and in Berlin, in the 1950s,
married an American soldier, Laud Roland Pitt Jr., and moved to
California. After her marriage failed she returned to Europe, but
after a small role in a film, she took the shortened stage name
"Ingrid Pitt" and headed to Hollywood, where she worked as a waitress
while trying to make a career in films.In the early 1960s, Pitt was a
member of the prestigious Berliner Ensemble, under the guidance of
Bertolt Brecht's widow Helene Weigel. In 1965, she made her film debut
in Doctor Zhivago, playing a minor role. In 1968, she co-starred in
the low-budget science-fiction film The Omegans, and in the same year,
played British spy Heidi Schmidt in Where Eagles Dare opposite Richard
Burton and Clint Eastwood.
2010) was a Polish-British actress, author and writer best known for
her work in horror films of the 1960s and 1970s.Ingoushka Petrov was
born in Warsaw, Poland, to a father of German Jewish descent and a
Polish Jewish mother. During World War II, she and her family were
imprisoned in Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo, Free City of
Danzig (present-day Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian
Voivodeship, Poland). She survived, and in Berlin, in the 1950s,
married an American soldier, Laud Roland Pitt Jr., and moved to
California. After her marriage failed she returned to Europe, but
after a small role in a film, she took the shortened stage name
"Ingrid Pitt" and headed to Hollywood, where she worked as a waitress
while trying to make a career in films.In the early 1960s, Pitt was a
member of the prestigious Berliner Ensemble, under the guidance of
Bertolt Brecht's widow Helene Weigel. In 1965, she made her film debut
in Doctor Zhivago, playing a minor role. In 1968, she co-starred in
the low-budget science-fiction film The Omegans, and in the same year,
played British spy Heidi Schmidt in Where Eagles Dare opposite Richard
Burton and Clint Eastwood.
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