Vet Brit thesp ANNA MASSEY who was menaced in Certificate X fear-bender “PEEPING TOM” and Hitchcock’s “Frenzy” has died at 73, her agent confirmed.
Massey died Saturday after a battle with cancer, with her husband and son at her side, according to agent Pippa Markham.
Anna was born to trod the boards in 1937 into a performing family. Her father was renowned actor Raymond Massey and her mother British actress Adrianne Allen.
Her brother Daniel Massey also became an actor, and her godfather was director John Ford.
Anna made her West End stage debut at 17 in "The Reluctant Debutante" and her film debut in John Ford's 1958 policer "Gideon's Day."
Anna found her herself menaced in fright films including Michael Powell's seamy thriller "Peeping Tom," Otto Preminger's "Bunny Lake is Missing," Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy" and the film adaptation of EC Comics “Midnight Mess” in “Vault of Horror” as a vampire.
Yet, she also played George Sand’s mother in "Impromptu" with Hugh Grant as Chopin and Emma Thompson as Sand.
Other lit adaptations included "The Importance of Being Earnest” in 2002 playing governess Miss Prism.
In 2006, she played former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the TV drama "Pinochet in Suburbia."
Massey would be remembered as "a consummate professional," her agent said, although the actress revealed in a shocking tell-all memoir that she also struggled with depression and stage fright, suffering a nervous breakdown in the 1960s.
