Violet Woolls-Sampson

(b. 19/08/1908-d. **/**/****). Actress. Violet Woolls-Sampson, generally known as Binkie, was the eldest daughter of Sir Aubrey and Lady Woolls-Sampson. Her father had taken a prominent part in the Jameson Raid and subsequently became the commanding officer of the Imperial Light Horse during the Anglo-Boer War. Violet was given the role of Flossie Mackenzie, the young girl who is abducted in the first film version of H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quatermain (1919), directed by H. Lisle Lucoque. A.O. Glisson and Florence Roberts played her parents. She does not seem to have featured in any other films, but her third husband, Dirk Illing, had acted in Die Bou van ‘n Nasie (Joseph Albrecht & Andries A. Pienaar/1938), before they got married in 1945. (FO)

(Note: Though she was cast as Violet Woolls-Sampson and was popularly known as Binkie, her baptism certificate gives her name as Rhoda and her father’s occupation as mining engineer.)

Sources

S.A. Pictorial, 18 January 1919

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