Olive McFarland
| Olive McFarland | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1929 Scotland |
| Died |
24 August 2011 (aged 82) Needham Market, Suffolk, England |
| Occupation | actress |
Olive McFarland (born Brenda McFarland 1929 – 24 August 2011) was a British actress who appeared in film and television dramas from the 1950s to the 1970s. She starred opposite Sean Connery in the 1961 film The Frightened City. [1]
McFarland's television appearances included The Sweeney, The Troubleshooters, The Champions and Dixon of Dock Green and she also had a film role in Alive and Kicking (1959). She left acting to restore properties and breed horses, in 1998 following an RSPCA inspection of her farm she was found guilty of neglecting her horses and received a one-month suspended jail sentence.[2] In January 2010 she moved to a care home at Eye, Suffolk not far from her farm at Creeting St Mary near Needham Market and was killed in an accident at a nearby railway crossing the following year.[3]
References
- ↑ Olive McFarland obituary in The Scotsman. Retrieved 17 January 2014
- ↑ Actress guilty of animal cruelty in The Independent. Retrieved 16 January 2014
- ↑ Film Star Killed at rail crossing. Retrieved 16 January 2014