Georgina Hale(1943-2024)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Georgina Hale is an accomplished stage actress who has made many
memorable forays in cinema. Most notably in the films of
Ken Russell including her
performance as Alma Mahler, in a wonderful and visually rich biopic on
the composer Mahler (1974) which she won a
BAFTA (British Academy Award) for. Two other standout performances were
in Russell's notorious
The Devils (1971) and the
Twiggy musical The Boyfriend in which she
deliciously plays Fay, camping it up, in a backstage lesbian sub plot.
She has made in-joke cameos in two further Russell films:
Lisztomania (1975) and
Valentino (1977). Unfortunately roles
were not forthcoming after her BAFTA win (who knows why?) and she made
some pretty bad movie choices such as the film version of the tacky
Joan Collins novel
The World Is Full of Married Men (1979)
and McVicar (1980) as well as the
occasional stunner such as Butley (1974),
written by playwright Simon Gray.
Georgina has appeared in many of Gray's stage plays (many have been
filmed for British television with her starring) along side
Alan Bates and
Glenda Jackson and continues to work in
British theatre. Georgina has made many appearances as guest star in
television series including:
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971),
The Protectors (1972),
Lady Killers (1980),
Minder (1979),
Boon (1986),
One Foot in the Grave (1990),
Murder Most Horrid (1991),
The Vicar of Dibley (1994),
three episodes of
Doctor Who (1963) and many many
more. She has starred in two television series:
Budgie (1971), a successful series in
the seventies, and in the early nineties a cult children's series based
around a witch like figure called T-Bag. Most recently she has appeared
in a comic role in
Preaching to the Perverted (1997)
in which her character points out that sometimes one has to debase
one's self to further one's career. This film may not further her
career (at age 55 she does a
Sharon Stone under-table leg trick)
but it will add to her growing reputation as one of the UK's favorite
cult actresses.