- Ingrid Pitt's father, a German scientist of Russian descent, often misidentified as Jewish, was wanted by the German government to assist with work on military projects, but he refused to help the Nazi programme to develop rockets. Pitt's Polish mother was of Jewish descent. During the Holocaust, Ingrid and her mother were imprisoned for three years at Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). Stutthof was primarily a forced labour camp, and most of the prisoners there were non-Jews. One day, taken into a forest to be shot, Ingrid and her mother managed to escape and were rescued by Partisans, with whom they lived rough during the last year of the war. After the war, they searched for Ingrid's father, and her older sister, Brigitte (who had been sent to a separate camp). The four were eventually reunited but Pitt's father was a broken man who died five years later.
- While filming The Vampire Lovers (1970), Ingrid and the rest of the girls had a great deal of trouble getting through scenes without giggling. In the scene where Ingrid has to drink from Kate O'Mara, her vampire teeth keep falling out and into Kate's cleavage. She eventually had to steal some gum from one of the stagehands to stick the fangs back in.
- Ingrid became a member of Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble theatre company. When she got into trouble for criticising the communist authorities, she made her escape to the west, aided by a US marine officer, Roland Pitt. The two wed but, after living for a period on a military base in Colorado, they divorced (although she kept her married surname) and she returned to Europe with her daughter, Steffanie. Ingrid would become a grandmother by Steffanie, who bore a son.
- She had one daughter: Steffanie Pitt.
- Was an avid fan of the soap opera Coronation Street (1960).
- Was a mad keen cricket supporter despite her non-British childhood and loved nothing more than beating Australian fans who wager against her team when The Ashes take place.
- Wrote several books, mainly in the horror genre. Had done a monthly column in Shivers magazine and appeared at horror conventions.
- She had a passion for World War II aircraft. After revealing this on a radio programme, she was invited by the museum at RAF Duxford to have a flight on a Lancaster bomber. She also held a student's pilot licence and a black belt in karate.
- She and fellow former Hammer pin-up and Bond girl Caroline Munro are considered the Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe of horror.
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