Madeline Smith

These are the monsters that they have created.

Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Ingrid Pitt, Veronica Carson, Oliver Reed, Madeline Smith, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gow, Hazel Court, Bartine Beswick.

These are the people that faced the horrors.

Jimmy Singster, Terrence Fisher, Michael Carreras, Peter Sazdy, John Elder, Evan Jones, Anthony Hines.

different.

And it stars Ingrid Pitt and Pip Steele, Madeline Smith, Peter Cushing is in it, and George Cole.

Danny does write about it in his essay as well.

It is, I find a lot of the Hammer horror movies to be pretty boring.

This one, as far as the director goes, Terrence Fisher returns to the franchise, if we can call it.

The film also stars Madeline Smith, who at that point was already a Hammer veteran, but she was also a Bond girl.

This is sort of a recurring thing with some of these British actresses that are in Hammer films.

She was also in The Vampire Lovers.

The Vampire Lovers.

It's really good stuff.

Madeline Smith is pretty much left the acting profession in the 80s and hasn't really done anything since I Well, she was in... 1984 was her last significant role, but she did appear in a few small films here fairly recently in the 2020s and in some British TV shows.

So she did appear in a little bit, but for the most part, as far as starring roles, she was kind of done after 1984.

got a bloody clue.

They can still do it when they want to, though, because the Maddie Smith character in The Vampire Lovers is well-written.

They've got an actress who can really carry something like that off.

And I'd even say Linda Hayden in Taste of the Blood of Dracula.

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Hello, and welcome to Radio Oldie with me, Harry Mount, editor of The Oldie, and I'm delighted to be talking to the brilliant Madeline Smith, who has starred in everything from Hammer Horror films to Live and Let Die and a lot in between.

And she's just written a memoir in conjunction with Philip K. Bujak called Madeline Smith, Bond Girl: From '60s Fashion Model to Half a Century on Stage and Screen.

And Madeline, if you don't mind-

Yes

It's awful.

"I like to run up to a man, throw my arms around him, and give him a hug." And that's where I think we need to end this gospel.

Well, that's a very, very lovely place to stop, and thank you so much to Madeline Smith for appearing on Radio Oldie.

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We present John Moffatt, Jeremy Clyde, and Madeline Smith in Agatha Christie's Murder on the Links.

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Hell and damnation.

And you all know how the best fairy tales come to an end.

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In Agatha Christie's Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot was played by John Moffatt, Captain Arthur Hastings by Jeremy Clyde, and Dulcie Devine by Madeline Smith.

Madame Renauld, Joan Matheson, Jack Renauld, Stephen Tompkinson, Madame Daubreuil, Petra Davis, Marta Daubreuil, Francesca Buller, Judge Hautet, David King, Inspector Bex, Geoffrey Whitehead, Inspector Giraud, Vincent Brimble, Sergeant of Police, Ken Cumberlidge.

Mm.

Even in, um, Vampire Lovers, which I know I wasn't a fan of, I worried about Madeline Smith's character.

Yeah.

I was kind of interested in, um, Carmilla herself.

Now, our last

speaker, Madeline Smith, you may remember last seeing her as Miss Caruso in Live and Let Die, where she has the unusual experience of Roger Moore undoing her dress with a digital watch.

Her career, which she writes about in her new book, is quite extraordinary.

She first appeared in The Killing of Sister George in 1968 with Beryl Reid, and she has worked with some of the greats, with Frankie Howard in Aunt Pompeii, with the Carry-On team in Carry-On Matron.

She's also a distinguished contributor to The Oldie, where she's written about working with such extraordinary figures as the two Ronnies, Richard Harris, Paul Eddington, and in her most recent piece, she worked in Eric Morecambe's last film.

So we're very excited to have Madeline Smith, whose new book, written in conjunction with Philip Bouchac, is Madeline Smith, Bond Girl from 60s Fashion Model to Half a Century on Stage and Screen.

Ladies and gentlemen, Madeline Smith.

Yes, yes, yes.