Vanessa Howard

Career After leaving school at fifteen, her first professional job was as a dancer and singer at the Welsh seaside resort of Llandudno, for Clarkson Roses Twinkle company, in a summer revue. The film was not released until 1972, by which time Howard's professional struggles, coupled with her recent marriage, had led her to retire from acting; she made one final performance, in an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, broadcast on British television in 1973. The couple divorced in 1983. Following her divorce, she worked with California programs dedicated to helping recently divorced homemakers reintegrate into the workforce, including the Mission Valley Regional Occupation Center in Fremont, California. She died in Los Angeles on 23 November 2010, of complications from COPD. A retrospective of Howard's career and later life written by Fassel with the cooperation of her family and Halfhide's assistance appeared in the Spring 2014 issue of the horror journal Screem, addressing multiple rumours about her life, career trajectory, and the time between her retirement and death.

Halfhide continued researching Howard, resulting in his own solo publication in The Dark Side #169, covering Howard's childhood and early career and building upon research he had initially published.

Filmography Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967) – Audrey Sam and Janet, 1968, S2E1, with John Junkin, Joan Sims, and Vivienne Martin The Blood Beast Terror (1968) – Meg Quennell Corruption (1968) – Kate This, That and the Other (1969) – Barbara (segment "That") Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969) – Hoyden Some Girls Do (1969) – Robot Number Seven Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly (1970) – Girly All the Way Up (1970) – Avril Hadfield The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970) – Patricia Cartwright What Became of Jack and Jill? (1972) – Jill Standish The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973) (TV) – Sybil Vane