Sandra Michaels
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5 April 1944
Sandra Michaels | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sandra Carol Michaels 5 April 1944 St. Pancras, London, England |
| Died | 23 August 2006 (aged 62) Sutton, Surrey, England |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Known for | Blue Peter |
Sandra Carol Michaels (5 April 1944 – 23 August 2006) was an English actress.[1][2]
Sandra Carol Michaels was born in St. Pancras, London, England on 5 April 1944.[3] In 1970, she married Peter Horton in Westminster, London.[4] She died in Sutton, Surrey on the 23 August 2006, at the age of 62.[5][6]
Career
Michaels' first television role was in March 1957, playing Phyllis in the second BBC adaptation of The Railway Children.[2][7] Later that year she appeared as Pamela Gwendolyn Stuart in The Adventures of Clint and Mac, a British-made serial commissioned by Walt Disney Studios for The Mickey Mouse Club.[2] Also in 1957 she played Caroline, a modern teenager who got up to mischief in the ITV sitcom The Thompsons.[2][8]
She appeared in a variety of programmes, ranging from the 1959 adaptation of Great Expectations and Dixon of Dock Green (also 1959), to The Ronnie Barker Playhouse (1968) and Gaslight Theatre (1968).[1]
Stage work varied from plays to pantomimes and light musicals; she appeared in Little Old King Cole with Charlie Drake at the London Palladium in 1961,[9] Puss in Boots at the Coventry Theatre with Sid James and Frankie Howerd in 1962–63,[10] and Mandrake at the Criterion Theatre with Roy Kinnear in 1970.[11]
In the 1980s Michaels appeared in a number of documentaries and short films,[1] including the 1987 BAFTA nominated Mohammed's Daughter, directed by Suri Krishnamma.