Pamela Green
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Pamela Green (March 28, 1929, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England – May 7, 2010 was an English glamour model and actress, best known at the end of the 1950s and early 1960s. She modeled for Zoltán Glass, Horace Roye, and John Everard.
Career
She founded Kamera with photographer Harrison Marks in 1953. In 1960, she appeared in the psychological thriller Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell. When the film was released, the nude shot of Green had to be cut after protests from Local Watch Committees in various towns before its scheduled screening, but in 1979 she was rediscovered by a new generation of fans when it was shown in its original version at the 1979 New York Film Festival, through the efforts of Martin Scorsese.
After dissolving the partnership with Harrison Marks in 1967, she moved to the Isle of Wight and married Douglas Webb, a glamour photographer, with whom she made more photographs. Pamela started figure modelling to pay for her art school studies and moved on to photographic modelling because it paid more.
She was responsible for staging and props and costumes, choosing and training other models, as well as modelling herself. She was the main initiator and business organizer of Kamera and its successors. She is also an accomplished painter and classical pianist.
Filmography
- Peeping Tom (1960)
- Naked as Nature Intended (1961)
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
- The Chimney Sweeps (1963)
- The Naked World of Harrison Marks (1966)
- Legend of the Werewolf (1975) (uncredited)
