Lynne Frederick

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Lynne Maria Frederick (July 25, 1954 – April 27, 1994) was an English actress.

Career

Frederick's film career began in 1970. Her early films included royal roles as Tatiana, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), and Catherine Howard in Henry VIII and his Six Wives (1972).

Other notable roles included Lucy in The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972), a doomed Jewish refugee in the fact-based Voyage of the Damned (1976) and one of the teenage leads in Hammer Films' Vampire Circus (1972) and Saul Bass's Phase IV (1974). On television her roles included two episodes of Follyfoot in 1973, one episode of Space: 1999 ("A Matter of Balance") and in the Christmas 1973 edition of The Generation Game, playing Cinderella. Her last screen role was opposite Sellers in the 1979 comedy The Prisoner of Zenda.

Private life

Born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England.

Frederick was married three times:

• Peter Sellers (m. 18 February 1977, died 24 July 1980)
• David Frost (m. 25 January 1981, div. 1982)
• Barry Unger (m. December 1982, div. 1991) 1 child

Frederick won nearly $1.5 million in a lawsuit against the makers of the posthumous Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), claiming the film tarnished her late husband's memory.

Though Sellers and Frederick had come to a financial agreement in their divorce and the actor was in the process of excluding her from his will a week before he died of a heart attack in 1980, she inherited almost his entire estate worth an estimated £4.5 million because the divorce decree had not been finalized. When Frederick died, her mother Iris inherited everything, including all of the income and royalties from Sellers' work. Upon Iris' death the estate reverts to Cassie Unger, Frederick's daughter by a later marriage.[1] By contrast, Sellers left his two children by actress Anne Howe £750 pounds each; the same amount was left to his daughter, Victoria, by his former wife actress Britt Ekland.

Frederick died in Los Angeles, California, after suffering from alcoholism for several years. She was survived by her daughter and her mother.

External links

• Lynne Frederick at the Internet Movie Database
• Lynne Frederick at Find a Grave
• "Tribute to Lynne Frederick" (site in English and French)
• Fan page
• Lasting tribute page with pictures
• Tribute to Lynne Frederick