19 Facts About Ingrid Pitt

Ingrid Pitt headed to Hollywood where she worked as a waitress while trying to make a career in films.

Ingrid Pitt appeared as Queen Galleia of Atlantis in The Time Monster, which was the fifth serial of the ninth season of Doctor Who, broadcast in six weekly parts, from 20 May through 24 June 1972.

Ingrid Pitt returned to Doctor Who as Dr Solow in Warriors of the Deep, which was the first serial of the 21st season of the series, broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from 5 to 13 January 1984.

Ingrid Pitt appears in the second broadcast episode of the short-lived cult ITC series The Zoo Gang, "Mindless Murder".

Ingrid Pitt appeared in the Amicus horror anthology film The House That Dripped Blood and had a small part in The Wicker Man.

Ingrid Pitt founded her own theatrical touring company and starred in successful stage productions of Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 classic, Dial M for Murder, Duty Free, and Woman of Straw.

Ingrid Pitt appeared in many television series in the United Kingdom and the United States; among them Ironside, Dundee and the Culhane and Smiley's People.

In 1998, Ingrid Pitt narrated Cradle of Filth's album Cruelty and the Beast as the character Countess Elizabeth Bathory, whom she had portrayed in the film Countess Dracula.

In 2000, Ingrid Pitt made her return to the big screen in The Asylum, starring Colin Baker and Patrick Mower and directed by John Stewart.

In 2003, Ingrid Pitt voiced the role of Lady Violator in Renga Media's production Dominator.

Ingrid Pitt was supposed to have a cameo role in Beyond the Rave as the unnamed mother of the drug dealer character Tooley played by Steve Sweeney.

Ingrid Pitt wrote a story under the pen name, Dracula Smith, which was illustrated within the fan club magazine.

Ingrid Pitt wrote a regular column, often about politics, on her official website, as well as a weekly column at UK website Den of Geek.

Ingrid Pitt married three times: Laud Roland Ingrid Pitt Jr, an American GI; George Pinches, a British film executive; and Tony Rudlin, a writer and racing car driver.

Ingrid Pitt's daughter from her first marriage, Steffanie Pitt-Blake, is an actress and she has one granddaughter, Sofia Blake.

Ingrid Pitt had a passion for World War II aircraft.

Ingrid Pitt held a student's pilot licence and a black belt in karate.

Ingrid Pitt died of congestive heart failure in a south London hospital on 23 November 2010, two days after her 73rd birthday.

Ingrid Pitt has no known recorded discography, though she was tributed in a song by British metal band, Cradle Of Filth.