Adrienne Corri, an actress whose movie career lasted nearly five decades and encompassed a wide range of roles, but who was probably best known as the victim in an infamous rape scene in Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange,” died on March 13 at her home in London. She was 84.

The cause was a massive coronary, her son, Patrick Filmer-Sankey, wrote in an email.

Ms. Corri appeared in horror movies like “Vampire Circus” (1972) and in more prestigious fare like David Lean and Robert Bolt’s Academy Award-winning “Doctor Zhivago” (1965) and her breakthrough film, “The River,” a 1951 drama set in India and directed by Jean Renoir. She was also seen on Broadway in “Jane” (1952) and “The Rehearsal” (1963), and on television shows like “Doctor Who.”

A 1950 profile of Ms. Corri in The New York Herald Tribune said that her impetuousness made an impression on the set of “The River” and described her as “afraid of nothing.”

Her fearlessness stood her in good stead two decades later when Kubrick cast her in a harrowing scene in “A Clockwork Orange” (released in the United States in 1971), his adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s dystopian novel of the same name.