Virginia Maskell

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.

  • Title: Virginia Maskell
  • Popularity: 2.492
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1936-02-28
  • Place of Birth: Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK
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Virginia Maskell Movies

  • 1960
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    Doctor in Love

    Doctor in Love

    5.5 1960 HD

    Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness...

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  • 1962
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    Only Two Can Play

    Only Two Can Play

    5.8 1962 HD

    John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys...

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  • 1958
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    The Man Upstairs

    The Man Upstairs

    6.1 1958 HD

    The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist...

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  • 1960
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    Suspect

    Suspect

    6.5 1960 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    Virgin Island

    Virgin Island

    5 1959 HD

    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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  • 1968
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    Interlude

    Interlude

    5.8 1968 HD

    A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.

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  • 1962
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    The Wild and the Willing

    The Wild and the Willing

    5.75 1962 HD

    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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  • 1958
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    Happy Is the Bride

    Happy Is the Bride

    5.7 1958 HD

    In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone...

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  • 1959
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    Jet Storm

    Jet Storm

    6.5 1959 HD

    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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  • 1967
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    The Prisoner

    The Prisoner

    7.762 1967 HD

    After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders...

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  • 1965
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    Gideon's Way

    Gideon's Way

    6.8 1965 HD

    Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at...

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  • 1956
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    The Buccaneers

    The Buccaneers

    6 1956 HD

    The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.

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  • 1955
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    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    6.4 1955 HD

    The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the...

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  • 1955
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    ITV Play of the Week

    ITV Play of the Week

    4 1955 HD

    A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute...

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  • 1962
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    Zero One

    Zero One

    6 1962 HD

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