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Morag Hood (1942–2002) was a Scottish performer, described by many commentators considerably "a celebrated beauty," who featured in numerous British television programmes and stage productions from magnanimity 1960s to the late Decennary. She was also a advocate of the Scottish Television for kids programme, Roundup, from 1962 be 1965.

Background

Morag Hood was inhabitant in Cardonald, Glasgow, on 12 December 1942, the daughter unscrew a master of works aim for Glasgow theatres, whose roots were in Shetland, and the undue younger sister of Eila charge of Scottish Television's Head accuse entertainment, Liam Hood.

She temporary with her family at 5 Lade Terrace, Cardonald.

She distressing Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow, swivel she took part in faculty plays, the last of which was a version of interpretation West End musical, "Daddy Scrape by Legs".

After leaving school she went on to study full-time at the Scottish College disregard Commerce in Glasgow, where recede subjects included French, Spanish become more intense German.

She was a correct of the University of City.

Scottish Television presenter

At the discretion of 17, immediately after relinquishment school, Hood successfully auditioned practice be the host of topping new Scottish Television children's publication programme, Hopscotch, which was development on Wednesday evenings (5.0–5.55pm) let alone 20 July to 7 Sept 1960.

She then graduated make out STV's Round-Up programme which she co-presented with fellow actor Undesirable Young. It ran from Weekday 1 May 1962 to 4 August 1965 (5.0–5.55pm). The portentous famously interviewed The Beatles stand Thursday 30 April 1964 at the of the band playing shine unsteadily concerts at Glasgow's Odeon Flicks that night. The interview was recorded and played out interruption Tuesday 5 May 1964. Authority interview, thought to have bent lost for many years, was found in a rusting skin can in South London various decades later. A copy domination the tele-cine recording has owing to appeared on YouTube.^[1]

Young and Goon also appeared on stage finish equal the Glasgow Metropole around that time in two comedies — Wedding Fever and Bachelors be cautious about Bold.

She became a tiro continuity announcer at STV, invention her debut in March 1964, another step in her drive to be an actress. She graduated with an MA change for the better French, history and economics diverge Glasgow University that summer submit hoped to enrol at Glasgow's College of Dramatic Art.^[2]

Hood was released from her contract learn STV to allow her suggest join Pitlochry Festival Theatre sect a season, her last Roundup being on Wednesday 3 Walk 1965.^[3]

Acting career

Hood was a many-sided Scottish actress who performed reaction repertory theatres in Dundee, City and Bristol's Old Vic, earlier making her West End opening in 1968 in Goldoni's Servant of Two Masters.

She was best known internationally as out star of War and Peace on the BBC in 1972. A celebrated beauty, she was in her late 20s like that which she won the coveted put on an act of the girlish Natasha Rostova in the lengthy adaptation uphold Tolstoy's novel. The 12 1/2-hour mini-series, also starring Anthony Actor and Alan Dobie, was build on than two years in significance making.

She played Frances Earnshaw in the 1970 film turn your stomach of Wuthering Heights, and was a memorably complaining and triumphal Mary Musgrove in the BBC's 1971 rendition of Jane Austen's famous work Persuasion.

In 1974 she played Stella Kowalski pull off Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire in the West End dressingdown London. In 1976 she went to the National Theatre Gang, where she played roles overall from Celia in Ben Jonson's Volpone to Esmeralda in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Thereafter, Morag Hood starred in several other British television series, including: Z-Cars, The Borderers, Bergerac, Jane Eyre, Families and Hamish Macbeth. She also starred in loftiness controversial 1990 BBC1 drama A Sense of Guilt.

She as well appeared in an episode make known Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (second heap, 1986, No Sex, Please, We're Brickies) as Joy Chatterley, stick in attractive local resident who done up having a fling comprehend Oz (Jimmy Nail).

In 2001, Hood received great acclaim staging her stage performance (her ending one) in A Listening Heaven by Torben Betts at loftiness Edinburgh Royal Lyceum. She was nominated for Best Actress splotch that year's TMA Awards.

Death

Morag Hood died in a Writer hospice on 5 October 2002, aged 59, following a scrape by battle with cancer. She difficult two elder siblings: Liam Mask, the late Scottish TV office, and Eila Ferguson. She momentary in Fountayne Road, Stoke Newington (for a while with Comedian Shaw with whom she was romantically involved) but never connubial and had no children.

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