Cast & creator
Patricia Laffan
Best known for Maigret, The Count of Monte Cristo, Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Patricia Alice Laffan (19 March 1919 – 10 March 2014) was an English stage, film, television and radio actress, and also, after her retirement from acting, an international fashion impresario. She was five feet, six inches tall, with dark reddish-brown hair and green eyes. She is best known for her film roles as the Empress Poppaea in Quo Vadis (1951) and the alien Nyah in Devil Girl from Mars (1954). Her biography, Devil Girl Remembered, was written by Andrew Ross in 2021.
Also known as: Patricia Alice Laffan
15
film credits
3
television credits
18
1946–2008 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (18)
Showing 18 of 18 credits
Maigret
1960
The Count of Monte Cristo
1956
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Jane
1956
Quo Vadis
Poppaea
1951
23 Paces to Baker Street
Miss Alice MacDonald
1956
I See a Dark Stranger
Bit Part (uncredited)
1946
Devil Girl from Mars
Nyah
1954
Thunder on Sycamore Street
Phyllis Hayes
1957Don't Blame the Stork
Lilian Angel
1954
Crooks in Cloisters
Lady Florence
1964
Death in High Heels
Magda Doon
1947
Rough Shoot
Magda
1953
Caravan
Betty (uncredited)
1946
Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B Movies
Self
2008
Anna Karenina
Betsy, Princess Tverskoy
1961
Escape Route
Irma Brookes
1952
Hidden Homicide
Jean Gilson
1959
Hangman’s Wharf
Rosa Warren
1950