Luan Peters

Luan Peters (11 June 1946 – 24 December 2017), also known as Karol Keyes, was an English actress and singer.

Biography Born Carol Ann Hirsch, she made her stage debut in a pantomime aged four, then went on to win a drama scholarship at the age of 16 after a performance of Twelfth Night.

She started singing in a band for £2 a night as a way of earning extra money while attending drama school. In Manchester, under the name Karol Keyes (named after her management, Keystone Promotions), she fronted Karol Keyes and the Big Sound, a band previously known as The Fat Sound. One of her first records was an Ike & Tina Turner song called "A Fool in Love", released on Columbia. She left that band in June 1966; subsequently, as Luan Peters (a name she adopted in the late 1960s), Her last known television role was in an episode of The Bill in 1990. In 2005, she was interviewed for the documentary Fawlty Towers Revisited.

Death Luan Peters died on Christmas Eve 2017, aged 71, but her death was not made public until June 2018.

Filmography Film YearTitleRoleNotes1970 Doctor in Trouble Doctor Dare fan Uncredited Man of Violence Angel 1971 Freelance Rosemary Lust for a Vampire Trudi Twins of Evil Gerta Not Tonight, Darling Karen 1972 The Flesh and Blood Show Carol Edwards 1974 Vampira Pottinger's secretary 1976 Land of the Minotaur Laurie Gordon 1980 The Wildcats of St Trinian's Poppy Adams 1981 Pacific Banana Candy Bubbles

Television

Discography Singles "The Good Love The Bad Love" "Gonna Find me a Substitute" (Karol Keyes & the Big Sound, Unreleased Abbey Rd. EMI audition Recording) "No One Can Take Your Place"/"You Beat Me to the Punch" (Fontana TF517 December 1964) (as Karol Keyes) "One in a Million" (1964) (as Karol Keyes) "A Fool in Love/The Good Love and the Bad Love" (1966) (as Karol Keyes) "Don't Jump" (1966) (as Karol Keyes) "Can't You Hear the Music"/"The Sweetest Touch" (Fontana TF 846 July 1967) (as Karol Keyes) "Crazy Annie/ Colours" (1970) "Everything I Want to Do/Billy Come Down" (1973, Polydor) "Love Countdown/Beach Love" (1977, CBS, Germany) "Dolphin Dive" (1979) "It's Me Again Margaret/Henhouse Holiday" (1980, Precision) "Trouble" (1981, from the film Pacific Banana)