Art & Hue

Honor Blackman

Honor Blackman is well known as Dr. Cathy Gale in “The Avengers“, regarded by many to be the first independent female character on British TV. Honor left the show to star alongside Connery in the Bond film “Goldinger” with Margaret Nolan, Shirley Eaton and the theme sung by Shirley Bassey.

Honor had a busy film career alongside her renowned television appearances including the Ealing horseracing film “The Rainbow Jacket” with Bill Owen, Robert Morley, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Edward Underdown, Fella Edmonds, Michael Ripper, & Sam Kydd, “Fame is the Spur” with Michael Redgrave, Kenneth Griffith & Roddy Hughes, “A Boy, a Girl & a Bike” with Diana Dors, “Conspirator” with Liz Taylor & Janette Scott, “So Long at the Fair” with Dirk Bogarde & Zena Marshall, “Green Grow the Rushes” with Richard Burton, “The Delavine Affair” with Gordon Jackson & Katie Johnson, “The Glass Cage” with Liam Redmond, Sydney Tafler & Sid James, “A Night to Remember” with Joseph Tomelty & Andrew Keir, “The Square Peg” with Norman Wisdom & Hattie Jacques, “A Matter of WHO” with Terry-Thomas, “Serena”, “Life at the Top” with Laurence Harvey, “Shalako” with Stephen Boyd & Jack Hawkins, “The Last Roman” with Orson Welles, “Twinky” with Susan George, “The Last Grenade” with Stanley Baker & Richard Attenborough, “Fright” with Ian Bannen, John Gregson & Dennis Waterman, “Something Big” with Dean Martin, “To the Devil a Daughter” with Richard Widmark, “The Cat & the Canary” with Peter McEnery, “To Walk with Lions” with Richard Harris, “I, Anna” with Charlotte Rampling, to name a few credits.

Just some of Honor’s many TV appearances include “The Upper Hand”, “Doctor Who“, “Coronation Street“, “Minder” with George Cole, “Robin’s Nest” with Richard O’Sullivan, and “The Saint” with Roger Moore.