Julia Arnall

Born Julia Ilse Hendrike Irmgard von Stein Liebenstein zu Bachfeld in 1928 in Munich, she spent her childhood in Berlin, where her father was an army officer. She attended drama school in Vienna. After the war, she married Desmond Arnall, a British Army officer who had been posted to Berlin. In 1950, she came to Britain with her husband and her young son.

She started her life as a model before becoming an actress with the Rank Organisation. She appeared in small parts in a few films before starring in the 1956 film Lost. After departing Rank, she continued acting, appearing in a few episodes of television shows, including The Saint and Emergency – Ward 10.

In 1956 she and Arnall divorced. In 1960 she married a film, television, and jazz critic, with whom she had a daughter.