Career
She featured or starred in over 25 films during the 1950s and 1960s. Jill Adams began life as Jill Siggins. She started modelling, only to be "discovered" and begin an acting career that spanned two decades.
Her most notable films were comedies, at which she excelled, such as Doctor at Sea, Brothers in Law, and The Green Manitoba, in which she starred with Alastair Sim and George Cole.
She also did some stage and radio work. She had a brief marriage to Jim Adams, a young American navy yeoman, which resulted in the birth of a daughter, Tina.
However, the union did not last and Jill pursued her acting in Europe, the United States of America, and Australia. In the early 1970s, the whole family moved to the Algarve, in southern Portugal, where they ran a small hotel for several years in the village of Albufeira.
Some years later she retired from the business and with her new partner, Buster, an accountant, went to live just outside Lisbon.
They later moved to Spain, where they enjoyed homes close to Alicante, then Barcelona, and eventually in the Costa del Sol. She battled cancer from 2005 until her death.