Candace Glendenning


Candace Glendenning is a retired English actress, known for her work in the horror film genre in the 1970s as a "scream queen". She also had a career in British television throughout the late 1960s to the early 1980s.

Career

Glendenning began her career as a child actress in The Tyrant King in 1968 and made her final feature film appearance in the 1976 independent horror film, Satan's Slave. This turned out to be her biggest starring role, an independent and spirited young woman who, having been orphaned in a car accident, is taken in by necromancer relatives who intend to use her as a human sacrifice. Glendenning's performance was well received by critics, but the film itself garnered mixed reviews and failed to turn a profit.
She continued to steadily work in television roles throughout the 1970s. In 1980, she appeared on five episodes of the BBC series Flesh and Blood, in which she played an elegant secretary. She was also reunited with Michael Jayston, who had played her father in Nicholas and Alexandra nearly ten years before. Glendenning's last role was a guest spot in a 1982 episode of the medical drama series, Angels.

Filmography

Television appearances