Clytie Jessop (born Clytie Erica Lloyd-Jones; 1929 – 9 April 2017) was a British-based Australian

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

, gallerist, painter, screenwriter and film director, notable mainly for her association with

cinematographer The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera ...

and

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

Freddie Francis Frederick William Francis (22 December 1917 – 17 March 2007) was an English cinematographer and film director whose filmmaking career spanned over 60 years, from the late 1930s until the late 2000s. One of the most celebrated British cinemato ...

Biography

Born to Herman Jonah and Erica Lily (née Small) Lloyd-Jones in Sydney, New South Wales, Jessop's younger sister, Hermia Sappho Lloyd-Jones (1931–2000), married artist David Boyd. Clytie Lloyd-Jones married her first husband, antiques dealer Peter Jessop, in London in 1952, and together they adopted a daughter, Pandora, Clytie's only child. Living in New York in the late 1950s, she worked as an actor in off-Broadway productions. Her first screen role was as the ghost of Miss Jessel in '' The Innocents'' (1961), based on

Henry James Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the ...

's ''

The Turn of the Screw ''The Turn of the Screw'' is an 1898 gothic horror novella by Henry James which first appeared in serial format in '' Collier's Weekly'' from January 27 to April 16, 1898. On October 7, 1898, it was collected in ''The Two Magics'', publis ...

'' and starring

Deborah Kerr Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE (30 September 192116 October 2007), known professionally as Deborah Kerr (), was a Scottish actress. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first person from Scotland to be no ...

. She appeared only in

long shot In photography, filmmaking and video production, a wide shot (sometimes referred to as a full shot or long shot) is a shot that typically shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surro ...

. Freddie Francis was the cinematographer for ''The Innocents''; he later directed Jessop in two minor horror roles for

Hammer A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. This can be, for example, to drive nail (fastener), nails into wood, to sh ...

and Amicus, respectively: ''

Nightmare A nightmare, also known as a bad dream, Retrieved 11 July 2016. is an unpleasant dream that can cause a strong emotional response from the mind, typically fear but also despair, anxiety, disgust or sadness. The dream may contain situations o ...

'' (1964) and '' Torture Garden'' (1967). Jessop later owned and ran the eponymous Clytie Jessop Gallery on Kings Road, Chelsea, London, during the 1960s. Following the arrest on obscenity charges of ''OZ'' magazine's Richard Neville and Jim Anderson in 1971, she held a benefit exhibition called ''Ozjects D'Art'' featuring works by David Hockney among others. In 1969 she married Australian writer Peter Smalley, author of a series of historic naval novels about HMS ''Expedient''. In 1986, she wrote, directed and produced the film ''Emma's War'', starring

Lee Remick Lee Ann Remick (; December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for the film ''Days of Wine and Roses (film), Days of Wine and Roses'' (1962) and was nominated fo ...

Filmography

References

External links

* 20th-century Australian actresses 1929 births 2017 deaths Australian women film directors Australian film directors {{Australia-film-director-stub