and then finding out the reality. Peter Sellers was completely obsessed by work and it's very difficult to live with someone like that." Over time, views towards Frederick's image gradually shifted, and she soon gained a cult following through her films, and has been described as one of the most promising, talented, and beautiful young British actresses of the 1970s. Many credit the negative events in her life (the loss of her acting career, blacklisting in Hollywood, and untimely death) to her marriage to Sellers. Even Roger Lewis, who was blunt about his disdain for Frederick, admitted that "of all of Sellers's wives, Lynne Frederick was the most poorly treated". One of the first people to advocate for Lynne was American author, Ed Sikov, in the 2002 book, Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers: "Lynne Frederick deserves a bit of compassion herself in retrospect. It was the helpless Peter she nursed, the dependent and infantile creature of impulse and consequent contradiction. Patiently she ministered him". Other people who have defended or come forward with positive recollections of Frederick over the years include Judy Matheson, Françoise Pascal, John Moulder-Brown, Mark Burns, Fabio Testi, Malcolm McDowell, and Graham Crowden. There has been continued belief that Frederick would have achieved greater career success had it not been for her marriage to Sellers and untimely death. It has been theorized that she had the potential to attain stardom equivalent to that of Helen Mirren, Judi Dench, and Julie Walters. In 1982, Frederick's screen appearance as Catherine Howard from the film Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), was used on the cover art for the 1982 novel The Dark Rose by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. For her work in horror films, Frederick has garnered significant popularity as a scream queen. In 2014, her image from the film poster of Schizo (1976) was featured in a montage for the cover of the publication X-CERT 2: The British Independent Horror Film: 1971-1983 by John Hamilton. The Times obituary for Frederick called her the "Olivia Hussey of her day". Filmography Film Television ‡ denotes lost film Discography Soundtrack appearances ¤ denotes that the soundtrack/album never received an official release Live performances ៛ Performed live 25 December 1973 on the BBC show The Generation Game Awards and nominations References External links Tribute to Lynne Frederick 1954 births 1994 deaths English film actresses English television actresses People from Hillingdon People