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Holly Murtle seemed destined to be a star. Born into a large acting dynasty, her grandfather Teddy Turtle Murtle had his own theatre and Holly first went on stage there at the tender age of six months. She appeared with her mother Christine Murtle in the farce Baby's Bathwater and toured until Holly was five. It was during these early days that Murtle developed her distaste for aggression, when one of the understudy babies savagely bit her on the back - an experience which stayed with her the rest of her life. |
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| After several nationwide tours and some sterling work during the war entertaining the troops, Murtle was enticed to Whiskerino. She was rumoured to be paid more per picture than even PDA Kirwan. Brought in to add a big name to the Horror Canon she appeared in four films before returning to her first love - the theatre. |
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Murtle has said in interviews that she had the happiest time of all the stars at Whiskerino. Occasionally there were on set arguments and bust ups (of particular note those between stars PDA Kirwan and Carla Blair) but Murtle seemed to miss all these. In 1953 whilst working on The Potion Mixture she met and fell in love with Mark Stumph. The pair worked together just once at the studio, on The Potion Mixture, and were married on the studio grounds in the summer of 1956. | |||||||||||||||||
| She left the studio to run the Murtle Thames Theatre as a family concern, putting on plays written by her uncle Roger Murtle. Financing the theatre was a full time gruelling job but provided her with the challenge she craved. The M.T. Theatre was was later closed due to falling audiences. In recent years Murtle has turned her attention to the campaign against violence - often speaking about her traumatic biting incident on the lecture circuit. |  |
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