Trivia

One of Court's biggest fans was horror writer Stephen King who mentions her in his various novels.

Her "horror queen" popularity officially started with her role as Elizabeth in La maldición de Frankenstein (1957). Real-life daughter Sally Walsh played Elizabeth as a child.

According to her good friend Ingrid Pitt, Court was Hammer Films' first major star.

In her last years, she was strongly critical of the increase of sex, violence, gore and bad language in films, singling out the films of Quentin Tarantino for special dislike.

While she had a substantial acting career both in England and on American television, Court was perhaps best known for her work in such films as El cuervo (1963). She co-starred with Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre in a Roger Corman take on Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem. Like other "scream queens" of the era, Court's roles often relied on her cleavage and her ability to shriek in fear and die horrible deaths. El entierro prematuro (1962), La máscara de la muerte roja (1964), La maldición de Frankenstein (1957) and Devil Girl from Mars (1954) helped propel her to cult status and brought her fan mail, even in her later years. Court had finished an autobiography, "Hazel Court - Horror Queen", which will be published in Britain, said her daughter, Sally Walsh.

Following husband Don Taylor's death on December 29, 1998, she would still appear on the cult movie conventions circuit.

As a teenager, she was appearing on the stage when she was spotted and signed by the J. Arthur Rank Organization.

Upon her sudden death, she was cremated and her ashes were scattered at sea.

Had three children: Sally Walsh, Courtney Taylor and Jonathan Taylor.

Twice in her career, Hazel Court played women whose bucolic vacations were interrupted by unfriendly space aliens, first in the feature film Devil Girl from Mars (1954) and, a decade later, in the fifth season episode, The Fear (1964), (5-29-64).

She and her second husband Don Taylor both appeared in Hammer films made during the 1950s. She appeared in La maldición de Frankenstein (1957) and The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) while Taylor appeared in The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954).

Her daughter Sally Walsh played the younger version of her character Elizabeth in La maldición de Frankenstein (1957).

In addition to acting, she was also a painter and sculptor, and studied sculpting in Italy.

Her first role and her last role were uncredited and both featured Champagne! In Champagne Charlie (1944) as a tipsy champagne drinker and in La última profecía (1981) as a champagne woman at a hunt.

She attended Boldmere School and Highclare College, and later studied drama at the Birmingham Repertory Theater and the Alexandra Theatre.

Best remembered for her roles in the Roger Corman films of the Edgar Allan Poe stories.

First played horror with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in The Curse of Frankenstein.