Barbara Shelley(1932-2021)

Recovered after suffering a stroke in 2007, though she says it left her "unabled" rather than disabled.

The main thing about Hammer [films] was that if you went to see a film in the cinema, the gasps were interspersed with giggles because people were giggling at themselves for being frightened, they were frightening themselves; and this is what made Hammer very special.