Honor Blackman is an actress who was famous for playing Pussy Galore in 1964 James Bond classic Goldfinger and Cathy Gale in The Avengers. She has achieved fame as a beautiful pilot with judo skills and a highly suggestive name in the 1964 James Bond movie “Goldfinger,”
Meet Honor Blackman
Honor Blackman was born on Aug. 22, 1925, in London, the third of four children of Frederick Blackman, a civil-service statistician, and the former Edith Eliza Stokes. Her father was a crucial influence on her decision to pursue an acting career, she recalled. When she was a teenager, he gave her a choice of a bicycle or elocution lessons (he felt his own East London accent had held him back in life); she chose the lessons. She later attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and began performing onstage.
Honor grew up in West London and left home at the age of 18 after her father hit her for wearing lipstick. She had a difficult relationship with her father, who the actress described as tyrannical. In an interview with Evening Standard back in 2004, she revealed: “My parents had Victorian values, and so the man was always right. It took me ages to work out men don’t always make the right decisions.
“I mean, instinct told me early on it wasn’t the case, but it took me a long time to argue back.” Honor moved into a bedsit and landed an acting job as an understudy at the West End’s Criterion theatre.
At the tender age of 20, she married businessman Bill Sankey in 1948, but unfortunately his possessive ways reminded her of her Father. When Bill suggested he wanted to emigrate to Canada, she realised she would be happier without him, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1956.
Her first credited screen role was in “Daughter of Darkness” (1948), a British crime film with horror elements; that came after she died in a horseback riding accident in an uncredited part in “Fame Is the Spur,” a 1947 movie starring Michael Redgrave.
Who is Honor Blackman’s Daughter?
Honor Blackman is survived by her two adopted children Barnaby and Lottie, and her four grandchildren Daisy, Oscar, Olive and Toby.
Honor and her former husband Maurice Kaufmann adopted their daughter Lottie in 1967 when she was six weeks old. When talking about her children in an interview, Honor was heard to have said to the Daily Express in 2014, that:
“I couldn’t be happier with the two children we finished up with. Lottie, 46, a psychotherapist, and Barnaby, 45, who’s about to do a teaching course. They’ve both traced their biological parents. I gave them the wherewithal to do that because I really don’t understand adopted children who aren’t the least bit interested in their parentage.
They’re totally different characters. My daughter is serious and decisive and hard working. My son has done various things such as running a bar. Actually he would be divinely happy if he could just go to the ski slopes and stay there and take his family with him. They are both wonderful parents.”
Who is Honor Blackman’s Husband?
Mr. Maurice Kaufmann the British actor was the second and last husband to the talented actress actress Honor Blackman. Honor and Maurice tied the knot in 1961, as noted before they adopted two children, Lottie Kaufmann Craft and Barnaby Kaufmann; unfortunately, their marriage ended in 1975.
Mr. Kaufmann born in Gorleston, Norfolk, England on June 29, 1927, starred in an array of crime and horror films, such as Fright alongside Honor, Women without Men, Find the Lady, The Girl in the Picture, The Man Without a Body, The Big Money, Top Floor Girl, among others.
He retired from acting in 1975. Maurice Kaufmann was 70, when he died from cancer on September 21, 1997, in London.
Conclusion
Honor Blackman, never remarry after divorcing Kaufmann in 1975 and said that she rather stay single for the rest of her life. She died on April 5, 2020, at her Lewes home, from natural causes at the age of 95. She is survived by her and Maurice’s adopted children Lottie and Barnaby, born in 1967 and 1968, respectively.
