Andrée Melly (15 September 1932 â€" 31 January 2020) was an English
actress.Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, she performed at the Old Vic in
Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice and T.S. Eliot’s Murder in
the Cathedral in her early twenties and worked with Peter Finch and
Robert Donat at the theatre. In 1958, she appeared with the Jamaican
actor Lloyd Reckord in the Ted Willis play Hot Summer Night, a
production which was later adapted for the Armchair Theatre series in
1959 and in which she was a participant in the earliest known
interracial kiss on television. She continued to appear on British
television until 1991. Her other stage work includes the original West
End production of the farce Boeing-Boeing at the Apollo Theatre in
1962 with David Tomlinson and as Alice "Childie" McNaught in The
Killing of Sister George at St Martin's in 1966.Melly appeared in
British films, including the comedy The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
and the Hammer Horror film The Brides of Dracula (1960). Her role in
the later film was as Gina, a woman who is bitten by Baron Meinster, a
vampire, turning her into another undead character.
actress.Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, she performed at the Old Vic in
Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice and T.S. Eliot’s Murder in
the Cathedral in her early twenties and worked with Peter Finch and
Robert Donat at the theatre. In 1958, she appeared with the Jamaican
actor Lloyd Reckord in the Ted Willis play Hot Summer Night, a
production which was later adapted for the Armchair Theatre series in
1959 and in which she was a participant in the earliest known
interracial kiss on television. She continued to appear on British
television until 1991. Her other stage work includes the original West
End production of the farce Boeing-Boeing at the Apollo Theatre in
1962 with David Tomlinson and as Alice "Childie" McNaught in The
Killing of Sister George at St Martin's in 1966.Melly appeared in
British films, including the comedy The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
and the Hammer Horror film The Brides of Dracula (1960). Her role in
the later film was as Gina, a woman who is bitten by Baron Meinster, a
vampire, turning her into another undead character.
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