Bettine Le Beau(1936-2015)
- Actress
- Writer
Bettine Le Beau was separated from her parents at a young age and was taken to two concentration camps during the Holocaust. She eventually escaped from Gurs internment camp on the border of Spain and headed to France, where she and another girl, Henriette, were hidden by Marthe and Abel Marre - a middle-aged, childless Catholic couple who owned a secluded farm. On Christmas Eve 1942, a truck dropped the two 10-year-olds by the side of a main road, saving their lives. She was reunited with her parents and brother after the war.
She went to England in 1945, where she attended Pitman's College in Southampton Row. Le Beau went on to work as a model, actress, broadcaster, cabaret artiste, lecturer, portrait painter, sculptor, graphologist, and a facilitator for a Yiddish language circle. She has worked in radio, on a woman's program for solving problems. She has founded a cosmetic business along with a charity called The Feminine Touch. Le Beau is perhaps best known worldwide for her appearances on The Benny Hill Show (1969) (1971-72) and her small part on an episode of Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner (1967) ("A, B and C"). She became a public speaker and authored a book, "Help Yourself to Happiness".
She went to England in 1945, where she attended Pitman's College in Southampton Row. Le Beau went on to work as a model, actress, broadcaster, cabaret artiste, lecturer, portrait painter, sculptor, graphologist, and a facilitator for a Yiddish language circle. She has worked in radio, on a woman's program for solving problems. She has founded a cosmetic business along with a charity called The Feminine Touch. Le Beau is perhaps best known worldwide for her appearances on The Benny Hill Show (1969) (1971-72) and her small part on an episode of Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner (1967) ("A, B and C"). She became a public speaker and authored a book, "Help Yourself to Happiness".
