Biography for
Belinda Lee (I) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

15 June 1935, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England, UK

Date of Death

12 March 1961, Baker, San Bernardino, California, USA (road accident)

Mini Biography

Knockout blonde Belinda Lee was born in Devon, England to a hotel owner (father) and florist (mother) on June 15, 1935. An incredible beauty while still in her early teens, she attended the Rookesbury Park Prep School at Hampshire and St. Margaret's at Devon. Expressing an avid interest in acting, she focused on dramatics at the Tudor Arts Academy at Surrey, then gained entry at RADA. She was noticed and signed by the Rank Studio Organization while performing at the Nottingham Playhouse and artificially groomed in starlet parts, the first being The Runaway Bus (1954). That same year she married Rank Studio photographer Cornel Lucas. Belinda worked intently in films but found frustration typed as a buxom, peroxide blonde. Boxed in as a second-string Diana Dors, she played a bombshell foil to Benny Hill in Who Done It? (1956) and was served up as sexy window dressing opposite both John Gregson in Miracle in Soho (1957) and Louis Jourdan in Dangerous Exile (1958). After divorcing Lucas, Belinda headed off to Italy for a change of pace and atmosphere but only got more of the same roles. This time she played temptresses in lowbudget spectacles. It all ended much too soon for the 26-year-old when she was killed in a car accident while vacationing in California.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net

Spouse

Cornel Lucas

(5 June 1954 - 1959) (divorced)

Trivia

She died in a car crash while driving between Las Vegas and Los Angeles with her lover Gualtiero Jacopetti. Before he died 50 years later in August 2011, he reportedly had said he wanted to be buried next to Belinda.