She also attended the City of London College for Commerce, Book-Keeping, Shorthand and Typing, later winning an evening scholarship to the London School of Dramatic Art.ĭuring her career, Fraser starred in several British films and television series, including the films, "Hancock's Half Hour" and "Last of the Summer Wine" as well as episodes of "Shadow Squad" and "Whack-O." She was also a semi-regular performer on "The Benny Hill Show" during its years at the BBC in the Fifties, later returning for one episode at Thames TV in 1970. Her father passed away at the age of 40 in 1942 when she was 11.Īttending St Saviour's and St Olave's Grammar School for Girls, she later attended Goldsmiths College where she studied drama. They moved to Westerham and later to Chudleigh during World War Two. She had an older half-brother, Philip, from her mother's first marriage. Liz Fraser is a BAFTA-nominated English actress, best known for her comedy roles as a provocative "dumb blonde" in British films of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, such as "The Americanization of Emily," "I'm All Right Jack" and "Carry on Cruising."īorn Elizabeth Joan Winch on Augin Southwark, England, although some sources give her birth year as 1933, she was the daughter of travelling salesman for a brewery and a female shop-keeper off New Kent Road.
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