1. Hazel Court is known for her roles in British and American horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s, including Terence Fisher's The Curse of Frankenstein and The Man Who Could Cheat Death for Hammer Film Productions, and three of Roger Corman's adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories for American International Pictures: The Premature Burial, The Raven and The Masque of the Red Death.
Hazel Court attended Boldmere School and Highclare College, and later studied drama at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Alexandra Theatre.
At sixteen, Court met film director Anthony Asquith in London; the meeting gained her a brief part in Champagne Charlie.
Hazel Court won a British Critics Award for her role as a crippled girl in Carnival.
Hazel Court appeared in Holiday Camp and Bond Street.
Hazel Court wanted to act in comedy films but has appeared in horror films and, in 1957, had what was to become a career-defining role in the first colour Hammer Horror film The Curse of Frankenstein.
Hazel Court appeared in an episode of The Buccaneers in 1957 titled Gentleman Jack and the Lady.
Hazel Court travelled back and forth between North America and Britain, appearing in four episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Hazel Court had parts in A Woman of Mystery ; The Man Who Could Cheat Death ; an entry in the British film series the Edgar Wallace Mysteries, The Man Who Was Nobody ; and in Doctor Blood's Coffin among others.
Hazel Court featured in the Edgar Allan Poe horror films The Premature Burial with Ray Milland, The Raven with Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff and The Masque of the Red Death, the last two with Vincent Price.
Hazel Court appeared briefly in Omen III: The Final Conflict.
Hazel Court was married to actor Dermot Walsh from 1949 until 1963.
In 1964, Hazel Court married actor and director Don Taylor, whom she met while they were shooting an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Hazel Court died of a heart attack at her home near Lake Tahoe, California, on 15 April 2008, aged 82.