Madeline Smith

Smith was born in Hartfield, Sussex. Her father owned an antiques shop and painting restoration business near Kew Gardens, and her Swiss mother was a translator. After a convent-school education, in her late teens she had a temporary job at Biba, the famous boutique located on Kensington High Street, London. It was at the instigation of Barbara Hulanicki, founder of Biba, that she became a model. In the late 1960s and early \'70s, she was regularly featured in the work of Disc cartoonist J Edward Oliver, who on one occasion devoted an entire strip to her entitled \'The Life and Habits of the Madeline Smith\'.\n', 'Smith first worked for Hammer Film Productions in Taste the Blood of Dracula (1969), billed as \'Maddy Smith\' and playing an East End prostitute. Among her other film appearances, she played opposite Ava Gardner in Tam-Lin, Peter Cushing in The Vampire Lovers and Frankenstein…