Janine Gray(1940-2022)

Blonde Janine Gray was born Janine Catherine Glass in Bombay, India, the daughter of an oil company engineer. Her family moved back to England when she was five. By the age of 13, Janine took drama classes and did her first screen acting gigs in TV commercials three years later. She spent several more years honing her skills in repertory theatre in Worthing and Nottingham. In 1959, she had a small guest spot in the crime drama Dial 999 (1958). Subsequently signed by the ITV franchise holder Associated British Rediffusion, Janine enjoyed better supporting roles in some of the popular TV series of the day, especially spy and crime shows like Destination danger (1960), Le Saint (1962), Chapeau melon et bottes de cuir (1961) and Des agents très spéciaux (1964). Her sole starring turn on the big screen was in the John Gilling-directed B-grade crime melodrama Panic (1963), which had Janine playing a Swiss miss unwittingly involved in a London diamond heist. Her other featured role of note was as James Mason 's wife in Harold Pinter 's marital soap opera Le mangeur de citrouilles (1964).

Janine's first marriage in 1962 was to automobile executive and former Olympic long-distance runner Herman Goffberg. Though this union ended in divorce, she remained based in California from 1964 until 1969. During this tenure, Janine made a number of guest appearances in episodes of popular TV shows like Max la menace (1965) (as a nefarious KAOS agent), Ma sorcière bien aimée (1964) (as Abigail, personal secretary to Samantha's warlock father Maurice), Les mystères de l'Ouest (1965) (Crystal, a murder victim) and Papa Schultz (1965) (as Greta, a member of the 'underground').

After her departure from the world of screen acting, Janine established a new permanent home in Cape Town, South Africa, with her second husband, the eye surgeon Dr. Brian Peter Greaves.