Denise Nickerson, best known for playing Violet Beauregarde in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, has died, aged 62.
As well as Willy Wonka, Nickerson was a regular star of TV shows Electric Company and Dark Shadows.
Other child stars to appear in Willy Wonka are Peter Ostrum (Charlie Bucket), Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt), Paris Themmen (Mike Teevee) and Michael Bollner (Augustus Gloop).
The actor starred opposite Gene Wilder in the 1971 Roald Dahl adaptation as the gum-chewing Violet when she was 13.