- Carole Ann Ford was born in June 1940 and first appeared in a film at the age of eight. Following acting and elocution lessons, she started doing commercials and walk-on work, and her first proper role was in the play "Women of the Streets." She continued working in theatre, film (including The Day of the Triffids (1963)) and television (including Emergency-Ward 10 (1957), Moonstrike (1963), Compact (1962) and Z Cars (1962)). Aftering leaving Doctor Who (1963), Carole worked mainly in the theatre. Her second daughter, Tara, was born in 1977. The same year she hurt her back filming a commercial, and suffered an extreme reaction to the pain-killers she was given. She subsequently became very ill, and has acted only occasionally since - though she did reprise her role as Susan in the twentieth-anniversary story The Five Doctors (1983). She is currently teaching voice, presentation skills and dialogue coaching to politicians, businessmen, after dinner speakers and actors.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpousesHarry Kornhauser(1974 - present) (his death, 1 child)Walter Jokel(1959 - 1967) (1 child)?(? - present) (2 children)
- Was the first of the original TARDIS crew to leave Doctor Who (1963), after eighteen months of playing Susan Foreman. She returned to the role of Susan for the twentieth anniversary story: The Five Doctors (1983).
- Left the acting profession to concentrate on her family.
- As of 10/99 she was a vocal coach in London,l England.
- After leaving Doctor Who (1963), she made a guest appearance in a detective drama as prostitute. When the episode aired, she received angry letters from parents of children who watched her.
- She worked as a glamour model in the late 1950s.
- I left Dr Who after 18 months as my character was going nowhere. In truth, I wished I had never gone into it. Afterwards all the scripts that came my way were for 15-year olds.
- It never had to be made up to time, but we certainly used to put some of our own ideas into it simply because of continuation of character. When you are doing it for a long period like that, inevitably new directors come in who don't necessarily know every aspect of your character, and there are writers to come on to the programme likewise, and so you have to change things when you know your character just wouldn't be doing this.
- It was a tiring schedule on the show. We often recorded them as if they were live, without any breaks for nearly twenty-five minutes. The air conditioning wasn't very good in the studios and we really sweated our heads off and the TARDIS console would keep going wrong because of the heat. I would have been happy to have left earlier.
- Bill Hartnell was lovely. There was a great team feeling. We were in contact with David Whitaker and Mervyn Pinfield all the time. It was a great big cumulative business - a much more chummy, family-type business than I think it is today, possibly because it's such a big production now.
- The mix of stories was fantastic - the science-fiction ones were great, the historical ones were wonderful. I suppose the historicals came out slightly better. John Lucarotti was a great writer. My favourite story was 'Planet of Giants'. The sets were superb - you almost didn't need to act. Mind you, there were ones that I wasn't so keen on, such as 'The Edge of Destruction'. We went mad for two episodes, and I think that was simply because none of us knew what it was all about - we just didn't know what we were doing. And not only because it was so quick - it was frankly so weird and whenever we asked why we were behaving in a particular way we were just told to get on with it and say the words!
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