Barbara Murray

Barbara Murray:

† Sep 27 1929 – May 20 2014

Sultry, heavy-lidded, but frightfully British actress who appeared in a few popular films in the '50s and '60s, but never quite attained full-blown stardom. She's in the Ealing classics 'Passport to Pimlico' (1948) and 'Meet Mr Lucifer (1953), both with Stanley Holloway, she was James Robertson Justice's unlikely love interest in 'Doctor in Distress' (1963), and she's in the portmanteau horror 'Tales From The Crypt' (1972). 

As the Brit B-movie studios closed and TV took over in the '60s, she won parts in kitsch favourites like 'Danger Man', 'The Saint', 'Department S' and 'Jason King', but was more at home in period melodramas and serious TV plays. Big successes were the modern political intriguer 'The Power Game' and the Anthony Trollope adaptation 'The Pallisers', in which Murray played major roles. But she was also able to play comedy, as in the Frankie Howerd entendre-fest 'Up Pompeii' (1971).    

In 'The Power Game'

In 'The Pallisers'

By the later '70s she was an occasional sighting on British screens, with a rather mixed bag including 'Doctor Who' (Peter Davison era story, 'The Black Orchid'), 'Robin's Nest', and the rarely-recalled 1987-89 serial 'The Bretts' - a sort of 'Upstairs Downstairs' of theatre folk set in the '20s. 

Barbara Murray - imdb

Royce Mills

Royce Mills: 

May 12 1942 - May 21 2019

Affable middle-class buffoon type, with a rather needy grin – perhaps best known as the hopeless swain Nausius/Knotweed in the Frankie Howerd romps 'Up Pompeii'/'Up The Chastity Belt'.

'Up The Chastity Belt' (1972)

I thought he was fairly well-known, but his TV work has mostly been in 'Mike Yarwood', 'Kelly Monteith', 'Never The Twain' territory. He did a number of Dalek voices for 'Dr Who', though, and a stirling job as Arthur Daley's accountant Andrew in a few episodes of 'Minder'. Nowadays, he's a bedroom farce specialist on the home counties theatre circuit. Not too shoddy.

Royce Mills - imdb profile

Madeline Smith

Madeline Smith: 

Biba salesgirl turned actress who played endless dollybird, saucepot, and vamp roles from the late '60s to the early '80s. Cartoonishly busty and cute, she features briefly in 'Live & Let Die' (1973) - it's her zip and Roger Moore's magnetic watch - and more prominently (ahem) in 'Up Pompeii' (1971), 'Theatre Of Blood' (1973), 'The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins' (1971), 'Taste The Blood Of Dracula' (1970), 'Carry On Matron' (1972) etc. Her television CV covers 'Jason King', 'The Two Ronnies', 'Steptoe & Son', and so on, until she retired from acting in the '80s.

In the mildly saucy Hammer horror 'The Vampire Lovers' (1970)

Madeline Smith - imdb profile