Veronica Carlson

Veronica Carlson
File:Veronica Carlson 1995.jpg Carlson in 1995
Born	Veronica Mary Glazer (1944-09-18)18 September 1944 Emley, West Yorkshire, England
Died	Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
Occupation	Actress model painter

Veronica Carlson (born Veronica Mary Glazer; 18 September 1944 – 27 February 2022) was a British model and actress who was known for her roles in Hammer horror films.

Life and career

Born in Emley, West Yorkshire, England, as Veronica Mary Glazer, Carlson spent most of her childhood in West Germany where her father was stationed. She attended the Thetford Girls' School and later the High Wycombe College of Art and Technology, where she studied art and participated in college amateur productions. In her mid-twenties, Carlson played a few minor parts in films and television programmes.

James Carreras, the head of Hammer Films, saw one of her photographs in a newspaper and offered her a role opposite Christopher Lee in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968). She starred in two further Hammer Horror films, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) and The Horror of Frankenstein (1970). She also appeared in the Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode "The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo" in 1969, an episode of The Saint ("The Man who Gambled with Life"(3rd last ep.)) with Roger Moore, and an episode of Department S ("The Double Death of Charlie Crippen").

Carlson was one of the four main characters in the TV thriller series Spyder's Web (1972), along with Anthony Ainley, Roger Lloyd-Pack, and Patricia Cutts. She had a small role in a 1975 episode of Public Eye playing Ingrid, the German girlfriend of Knaggs, a wanted bankrobber/gangster, played by Ray Lonnen.

Carlson went into semi-retirement after marrying and moving to the United States. In later life she lived in South Carolina, with her husband and three children, where she worked as a professional painter. She emerged from a 24 year retirement to star in the 2019 film House of the Gorgon, alongside fellow Hammer film stars Caroline Munro, Martine Beswick, and Christopher Neame.

Carlson died on 27 February 2022, at the age of 77.

Filmography

Film

Title	Year	Role	Notes
1967	Casino Royale	Tall Blonde	Uncredited
1967	The Magnificent Two	Revolutionary	Uncredited
1967	Smashing Time	Movie Actress at Premiere
1968	Hammerhead	Ulla
1968	Dracula Has Risen from the Grave	Maria
1969	Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed	Anna Spengler
1969	The Best House in London	Lily	Uncredited
1969	Crossplot	Dinah
1970	Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You	Liz
1970	The Horror of Frankenstein	Elizabeth Heiss
1974	Vampira	Ritva
1975	The Ghoul	Daphne
1994	Black Easter	Psychiatrist
1995	Freakshow	Grace Harmsworth
2016	Stellar Quasar and the Scrolls of Dadelia	Sayang
2019	House of the Gorgon	Anna Banning
2021	Night of the Devil		Short film
TBA	The Rectory	Lady Whitehouse

Television

Title	Year	Role	Notes
1968	ITV Playhouse	Sally	"The Photographer" (S1E18)
1969	The Saint	Vanessa Longman	"The Man Who Gambled with Life" (S6E18)
1969	Department S	Gina	"The Double Death of Charlie Crippen" (S2E20)
1969	Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)	Suzanne	"The Ghost Who Saved the Bank of Monte Carlo" (S1E11)
1971	Hine	Amanda	"Everything I Am I Owe" (S1EP12)
1972	Spyder's Web	Wallis Ackroyd	Season 1 (main role, all 13 episodes)
1975	Public Eye	Ingrid Borg	"Hard Times" (S7E7)

External links

• Veronica Carlson at the Internet Movie Database
• Veronica Carlson at HorrorStars
• 2001 Carlson interview at Rusty Whites Film World
• Veronica Carlson interview at Classic Film & TV Cafe
• Veronica Carlson discography at Discogs