1. Honor Blackman was an English actress and singer, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers, Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, Julia Daggett in Shalako, and Hera in Jason and the Argonauts.
31 Facts About Honor Blackman
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Honor Blackman is known for her role as Laura West in the ITV sitcom The Upper Hand.
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Honor Blackman was born on 22 August 1925 at 200 Cumberland Road, Canning Town, West Ham, England, the daughter of Edith Eliza and Frederick Blackman, a civil service statistician.
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Honor Blackman's film debut was a nonspeaking part in Fame Is the Spur.
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Honor Blackman played Hera in Jason and the Argonauts, which featured stop-motion animation by Ray Harryhausen.
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Honor Blackman had roles in the films Bridget Jones's Diary and Jack Brown and the Curse of the Crown.
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Albert R Broccoli said Blackman was cast opposite Sean Connery in the Bond film on the basis of her success in the British television series The Avengers.
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Honor Blackman knew that most American audiences would not have seen the programme.
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Honor Blackman spent most of 1987 at the Fortune Theatre starring as the Mother Superior in the West End production of Nunsense.
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Honor Blackman returned to the theatre in 2005, touring through 2006 with a production of My Fair Lady, in which she played Mrs Higgins.
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Honor Blackman developed a one-woman show, Word of Honor, which premiered in October 2006.
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From April to September 2007, Honor Blackman took over the role of Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at the Lyric Theatre in London's West End.
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Honor Blackman left the series after its third season to co-star in the James Bond film Goldfinger.
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In December 1969 and February 1993, Honor Blackman was taken by surprise as the subject of This Is Your Life.
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In 2003, Honor Blackman took a guest role on Midsomer Murders, as ex-racing driver Isobel Hewitt in the episode "A Talent for Life".
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Honor Blackman was sworn in as a juror as "Honor Kaufmann".
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Honor Blackman appeared in a number of episodes of Never the Twain with Donald Sinden and Windsor Davies as veterinarian Veronica Barton.
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Honor Blackman's recording with The Avengers co-star Patrick Macnee of "Kinky Boots", referring to the boots she wore in the show, failed to chart upon its original release, but became a surprise hit in 1990.
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On 6 July 2009, Honor Blackman released a new single, "The Star Who Fell from Grace", composed by Jeff Chegwin and Adrian Munsey.
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Honor Blackman compered the James Bond Prom, part of the "Welsh Proms" concert series in 2009.
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Honor Blackman appeared as Anahita in the Doctor Who audio drama The Children of Seth, released in December 2011.
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Honor Blackman was married to Walter "Bill" Sankey from 1948 to 1954.
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Honor Blackman owned a summer house in Islesboro, Maine, United States.
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Honor Blackman died at her home in Lewes, East Sussex, on 5 April 2020, aged 94, from natural causes.
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Honor Blackman was a British Republican, a member of the Liberal Democrats and was previously a member of the Liberal Party, campaigning for the party during the 1964 general election.
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Honor Blackman declined a CBE in 2002, as she felt that as a republican it would be hypocritical to accept the award.
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Honor Blackman publicly supported changing the British electoral system from first-past-the-post to alternative vote for electing members to the House of Commons in the Alternative Vote referendum in 2011.
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In 2012, Honor Blackman publicly criticised actor Sean Connery, her Bond co-star in the 1960s, for his status as a tax exile.
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Honor Blackman was a powerful figure, but she did damn all for empowering women.
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Honor Blackman didn't surround herself with any women whatsoever or encourage women to come into politics or do anything in particular.
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Honor Blackman could have been a quite wonderful role model.