Played: Zora in From Russia With Love and Paula in Thunderball Horror Filmography: One Million Years BC (1966), Prehistoric Women (1967), Dr Jekyll & Sister Hyde (1971), Seizure (1974), From A Whisper To A Scream (1987), Trancers II (1991), Night Of The Scarecrow (1995). Not content with being the first actress to play 2 different characters in 2 Bond films, Martine Beswick went on to become Hammers go-to girl for roles that required a dark, domineering femme fatale. In Prehistoric Women, which she described as probably the silliest film ever made, she played the leader of a brunette tribe that enslaved blondes. After appearing in a number of camp curios that could only appeal to hardcore film buffs including The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood, with Phil Silvers and Adam West she retired from acting in 1995.
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
