Background
The daughter of actor Jack Melford, she attended the Ballet Arts School in New York and made her theatre debut in 1949 as a dancer in a production of Oklahoma!.
The daughter of actor Jack Melford, she attended the Ballet Arts School in New York and made her theatre debut in 1949 as a dancer in a production of Oklahoma!.
In New York, before appearing in other Broadway performances. In 1953 she performed in "The Seven Year Itch" on the London stage, and later appeared in other stage plays. Melford made her first United Kingdom television appearance in 1952 in The Three Hostages and her first movie, in 1953 not long afterwards.
She made several appearances in Danger Manitoba (known as Secret Agent in the United States of America), and made her last film appearance in Shoreditch in 2003.