Georgina Hale, who has died aged 80, was a British stage and screen actress whose ready, slinky sensuality might have made her a star in other countries. Her diminutive, smoky-eyed presence and Betty Boop-like voice were most memorably deployed by Ken Russell in his run of 1970s provocations, notably The Devils (1971) and Mahler (1974), for which she won a Bafta.