Honor Blackman, 1925-2020

Honor Blackman (r.) and Sean Connery in Goldfinger (1964)

Honor Blackman, who had a long career in film and TV but will probably be best remembered for playing Pussy Galore in the James Bond movie Goldfinger, has died at the age of 94.

In looking through her filmography, I see that she was in Conspirator, Elizabeth Taylor's first real adult role, which I had forgotten about. There's also Quartet, the first of the anthology movies based on the work of Somerset Maugham; A Night to Remember, about the night the Titanic hit the iceberg; and Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion masterpiece Jason and the Argonauts, among others.

Blackman also did a lot of TV work, most notably in the early seasons of The Avengers, although a lot of that work was in British TV and I don't know how much of that made it to this side of the Atlantic since I don't recognize it.