Imogen Hassall with Dermot Breen and colleague

Imogen Hassall with Dermot Breen and colleague

Cork Film Festival, Imogen Hassall, Dermot Breen

This is a black and white photo of the English actor Imogen Hassall with the festival director Dermot Breen and an unidentified companion. The three stand in a huddle having a conversation, oblivious to the camera, while a young boy in the background catches the picture as it's taken.

Hassall came to Cork in 1977 during a time of hiatus in her film career which mostly consisted of bawdy comedies and horror movies. Her filmography includes Carry on Loving (Gerald Thomas, 1970) with Sid James, Joan Sims and Kenneth Williams, El Condor (John Guillermin, 1970), When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (Val Guest, 1970), and Incense for the Damned (Robert Hartford-Davis,1972) with Patrick Macnee and Peter Cushing. Her final film role was in the James Bond spoof Licensed to Love and Kill (Lindsay Shonteff) in 1979. Hassall had a turbulent personal life and died by suicide in 1980, age only 38. The festival director, Dermot Breen, on the right in this photo, would also die unexpectedly, age 54, in the year following this picture in 1978.

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, Donal Sheehan

Cork Film Festival Collection

University College Cork

1977

Donal Sheehan

Photo
TIFF
JPEG

English, eng

1977
Cork, Ireland

Photo

253 x 201mm