Carol White
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Carol White (1 April 1943 – 16 September 1991) was a British actress.She achieved notability for her performances in the television play Cathy Come Home (1966) and the films Poor Cow (1967) and I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967), but alcoholism and drug abuse damaged her career, and from the early 1970s she worked infrequently.Born in Hammersmith, London, the daughter of a scrap merchant's daughter, White attended the Corona Stage Academy.She played minor roles in films from 1949 until the late 1950s, when she began to play more substantial supporting roles in films such as Carry on Teacher (1959) and Never Let Go (1960) in which she played the girlfriend of Peter Sellers.She continued working regularly and drew attention for her performances in the television version of Nell Dunn's Up the Junction (1965), and she followed this success with roles in Cathy Come Home (1966) and the films Poor Cow (1967) and I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967).She starred opposite Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm in the film adaptation of Bernard Malamud's The Fixer (1968) and then travelled to Hollywood in 1968 to make Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969).
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