According to friend Ingrid Pitt, Court was Hammer Films' first major star.
As a teenager she was appearing on the stage when she was spotted and signed by the J. Arthur Rank Organization.
Daughter of a professional cricket player.
Following husband Don Taylor's death in 1998, she would still appear on the cult movie conventions circuit.
Had three children: Sally Walsh, Courtney Taylor and Jonathan Taylor.
Her "horror queen" popularity officially started with her role as Elizabeth in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). Real-life daughter Sally Walsh played Elizabeth as a child.
One of Court's biggest fans was writer Stephen King who mentions her in his various novels.
Participated in five Roger Corman pictures.
Twice in her career, Hazel Court played women whose bucolic vacations were interrupted by unfriendly space aliens, first in the feature film Devil Girl from Mars (1954) and, a decade later, in "Twilight Zone" (1959) episode, "Twilight Zone: The Fear (#5.35)" (1964), (05-29-64)).
While she had a substantial acting career both in England and on American TV, Court was perhaps best known for her work in such films as 1963's The Raven (1963). She co-starred with Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre in a Roger Corman take on the classic Edgar Allan Poe poem. Corman directed her in five movies. Like other "scream queens" of the era, Court's roles often relied on her cleavage and her ability to shriek in fear and die horrible deaths. Premature Burial (1962), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Devil Girl from Mars (1954) helped propel her to cult status and brought her fan mail, even in her later years. Court had finished an autobiography, "Hazel Court - Horror Queen", which will be published in Britain, said her daughter,