The Vampire Lovers (1970)
Ingrid Pitt raises Hammer's adaptation of Carmilla into a melancholy gothic. There is real sorrow in the performance.
Actor: Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid Pitt played the lead in The Vampire Lovers and became Hammer’s most recognisable female star. She survived a Nazi concentration camp as a child and escaped East Berlin by swimming a river, which is a considerably more remarkable biography than the horror career suggests. She wrote several books.