Diane Clare obit

Ice-Cold in Alex actress Diane Clare dies aged 74

She was not on the list.

Diane Clare, who starred in 'The Plague of the Zombies' and 'The Reluctant Debutante', has died four years after her husband, the author Barry England.

Diane Clare, whose career stretched from Ice-Cold in Alex to the Hammer horror classic The Plague of the Zombies, has died aged 74.

The actress played Angela Lansbury’s daughter in The Reluctant Debutante, even though she was only 12 years her junior.

In Ice-Cold in Alex, she and Sylvia Sims were nurses being escorted across the desert in enemy-occupied North Africa by Sir John Mills and Harry Andrews.

Clare married the author Barry England in 1967. Two years later, his thriller Figures in a Landscape was nominated fr the inaugural Booker Prize.

England, who died in 2009, also wrote the play Conduct Unbecoming. The couple are survived by their two children, Kate and Christopher.

Filmography 

Feature films  

Year , Title , Role , Notes  

1958 , Indiscreet , Young Woman , minor role, Uncredited  

Ice Cold in Alex , Sister Denise Norton ,  

The Reluctant Debutante , Clarissa Claremont ,  

1960 , Let's Get Married , Glad ,  

1961 , The Green Helmet , Pamela ,  

'Out of the Shadow , Mary Johnson , Starring role  

The Naked Edge , Betty ,  

Whistle Down the Wind , Miss Lodge ,  

Lunch Hour , Sheila , minor role, Uncredited  

1962 , Mrs. Gibbons' Boys , – , minor role, Uncredited  

Go to Blazes , 'Girl lover' ,  

The L-Shaped Room , Nurse ,  

1963 , The Double , Selena Osmonde ,  

Tamahine , – , minor role, Uncredited  

The Haunting , Carrie Fredricks ,  

1964 , Witchcraft , Amy Whitlock ,  

1966 , The Plague of the Zombies , Sylvia Forbes , Starring role  

The Wrong Box , Mercy ,  

The Trygon Factor , Clare O'Connor ,  

1967 , The Vulture , Trudy Lutens , Starring role  

1968 , The Hand of Night , Chantal , Starring role, (final film role)