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4 unusual facts about Carol White


Carol White

White starred opposite Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Ian Holm in the film adaptation of Bernard Malamud's The Fixer (1968) and then travelled to Hollywood in 1968 to make Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969).

She appeared in Dulcima in 1971, and she had an upbeat role in Something Big (1971) in the same year, but her career went into decline soon after, largely as a result of personal problems including drug and alcohol abuse, though she had a prominent role as a hostage in The Squeeze (1977).

White, the daughter of a scrap merchant, was born in Hammersmith.

Clifford Thurlow

He traded gemstones in South East Asia and ran a travelling dolphin show in Spain before moving to Hollywood, where he penned Carol White's autobiography Carol Comes Home.


Something Big

In the frontier of the southern New Mexico Territory, Joe Baker (Dean Martin) is an aging restless bandit determined to do "something big" before his fiancée Dover McBride (Carol White) arrives from the East.


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