Clytie Jessop (born Clytie Erica Lloyd-Jones; 1929 – 9 April 2017)[1] was a British-based Australian actress, gallerist, painter, screenwriter and film director, notable mainly for her association with cinematographer and film director Freddie Francis.
[2] Her first screen role was as the ghost of Miss Jessel in The Innocents (1961), based on Henry James's The Turn of the Screw and starring Deborah Kerr.
[2] Freddie Francis was the cinematographer for The Innocents; he later directed Jessop in two minor horror roles for Hammer and Amicus, respectively: Nightmare (1964) and Torture Garden (1967).
[3][4] Following the arrest on obscenity charges of OZ magazine's Richard Neville and Jim Anderson in 1971, she held a benefit exhibition called Ozjects D'Art featuring works by David Hockney among others.
[2] In 1969 she married Australian writer Peter Smalley, author of a series of historic naval novels about HMS Expedient.