Number 2 - Jill Curzon

Career Resume to Date:

Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the Tardis (1993) (TV) .... Herself/Susan

Sunshine Patriot, The (1968) (TV) .... Vander's Secretary

Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966) .... Louise

Intelligence Men, The (1965) .... French Girl

Smokescreen (1964) .... June

80,000 Suspects (1963) .... Nurse Jill

Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, The (1962) (TV) .... Katharine Banks

Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1962) (TV) (USA: theatrical title)

Career Analysis:

There's not really much to say about that is there? She seems to have started her career taking the unusual route of getting typecast playing scarecrows, an interesting albeit flawed approach which presumably faltered when she ran out of films to audition for that had scarecrows in. She broke the mould however, by playing the no doubt challenging part of "Nurse Jill" a year later, quickly followed by other roles including playing "French Girl", which she must have really had to do a lot of research for.

Then came the big break, in colour, playing Louise Who alongside Peter Cushing, a role we all now remember well, although it's a pity that all her dialogue was overdubbed by Yvonne Antelope after filming had finished. Still, at least she got to keep the boots. I wonder if she had to wrestle naked with Antelope for them, who no doubt staked her claim on the lovely leather accessories after reading all Curzon's lines for her. Who knows?

Then we get to her career post-Daleks. Is there really anything left to say about poor Jill? Except, possibly, that she was the noblest Vander's Secretary of them all.