Actor
Carole Lesley
May 27, 1935 · Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK
Maureen Rippingale (27 May 1935, in Chelmsford – 28 February 1974, in New Barnet), known professionally as Carole Lesley, was a British actress who had a short but significant career as a "blonde bombshell". Lesley ran away from home at the age of 16, "aiming to become a star". She starred in several films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the 1957 film Woman in a Dressing Gown, which won the 1958 Golden Globe Award for Best English-Language Foreign Film. She also appeared in Doctor in Love, Operation Bullshine and What a Whopper, and played Helen of Troy in a television play. However Associated decided to end her contract, which devastated her and she disappeared from the public eye. She subsequently lived in a semi-detached house overlooking New Barnet Railway Station, but by 1973 was felt by some to be "a deeply depressed, once beautiful woman, still haunted by a glamorous past". She died of a drug overdose.
Often works with
Marianne Stone
3 titles together
Woman in a Dressing Gown, No Trees in the Street, Operation Bullshine
Sylvia Syms
2 titles together
Woman in a Dressing Gown, No Trees in the Street
Michael Ripper
2 titles together
Woman in a Dressing Gown, These Dangerous Years
Melvyn Hayes
2 titles together
Woman in a Dressing Gown, No Trees in the Street
Michael Craig
2 titles together
Doctor in Love, The Embezzler
John Le Mesurier
2 titles together
Doctor in Love, These Dangerous Years
Full filmography · 12
The Pot Carriers
as Wendy
1962
What a Whopper
as Charlotte 'Charlie' Pinner
1961
Three on a Spree
as Susan
1961
Doctor in Love
as Miss Kitten Strudwick
1960
Operation Bullshine
as Pvt. Marge White
1959
No Trees in the Street
as Lova
1959
Woman in a Dressing Gown
as Hilda Harper
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These Dangerous Years
as Dinah Brown
1957
The Good Companions
as Film Star (as Leslie Carroll)
1957
The Embezzler
as Tea Shop Waitress
1954
Trottie True
as Clare as a child
1949
The Silver Darlings
as Una (child)
1947