BOND GIRL KARIN DOR DIES AGED 79
She was not on the list.
Karin Dor has died aged 79.
The Bond girl, best known for portraying flame-haired
villain Helga Brandt alongside Sir Sean Connery in You Only Live Twice, passed
away at her home in Germany this week.
Her son told German newspaper Bild that she died at a care
home in Munich.
Last year, she suffered a heavy fall and failed to recover
from the injuries.
In 1967 movie, Dor's character Helga/ No. 11 was a SPECTRE
assassin and secretary to Japanese industrialist Mr. Osato (Teru Shimada).
Helga was sent to kill Connery 's 007 alter-ego but she was
seduced by him instead.
Things didn't end well for her character as Blofeld - played
by Donald Pleasence - opened a trap door which dropped her into a pool filled
with piranhas as punishment for failing to do away with Bond.
Dor also appeared in Sir Alfred Hitchcock's movie Topaz in
1969 alongside Frederick Stafford and Dany Robin.
The late star landed her first screen role aged 17 in
Rosen-Resli.
Director Harald Reinl was impressed with her ability and
cast her in The Silent Angel, and then married her in 1954.
The pair divorced in 1968 and Dor went on to tie the knot to
Günther Schmucker in 1972 but they split two years later.
Her third and final husband was former Batman stuntman
George Robotham, who Dor married in 1988 and was with up until his death in
2007.
Selected filmography
The Last Waltz
(1953) as Extra (uncredited)
Roses from the
South (1954)
Rose-Girl Resli
(1954)
The Great Test
(1954)
Der schweigende
Engel [de] (1954) as Erika
Ihre groβe Prüfung
(1955) as Elena Clausen
As Long as You
Live (1955) as Pepita
Santa Lucia (1956)
as Manina
Kleiner Mann –
ganz groß (1957) as Meike Brauns
Die Zwillinge vom
Zillertal [de] (1957) as Daniela Kleemann
Almenrausch and
Edelweiss (1957) as Maresi Meier
Mit Eva fing die
Sünde an [de] (1958) as Dinah
Worüber man nicht
spricht (1958) as Christa Riek
Thirteen Old
Donkeys (1958) as Monika
Skandal um Dodo
[de] (1959) as Helga, die Nichte
The Blue Sea and
You (1959) as Helga Heidebrink
A Summer You Will
Never Forget (1959) as Christine von Auffenberg
That's No Way to
Land a Man (1959) as Tessy
Die Bande des
Schreckens (1960) as Nora Sanders
The White Horse
Inn (1960) as Brigette Giesecke
The Green Archer
(1960) as Valerie Howett, geb Bellamy
Bei Pichler stimmt
die Kasse nicht [de] (1961) as Anneliese
Der Fälscher von
London (1961) as Jane Clifton, geb. Leith
Am Sonntag will
mein Süsser mit mir segeln geh'n (1961) as Georgie Hagen, die Sprachstudentin
The Bellboy and
the Playgirls (1962)
The Invisible Dr.
Mabuse [de] (1962) as Liane Martin
Der Teppich des
Grauens [de] (1962) as Ann Learner
Treasure of the
Silver Lake (1962) as Ellen Patterson
The White Spider (1963) as Muriel Irvine
The Strangler of
Blackmoor Castle (1963) as Claridge Dorsett
The Secret of the
Black Widow (1963) as Clarisse
Room 13 (1964) as
Denise
Last of the
Renegades (1964) as Ribanna
Hotel der toten
Gäste (1965) as Gilly Powell
The Last Tomahawk
(1965) as Cora Munroe
The Face of Fu
Manchu (1965) as Maria Muller
The Desperado
Trail (1965)
Io la conoscevo
bene (1965) as Barbara, the lady friend of Adriana
Der unheimliche
Mönch (1965) as Gwendolin
The Spy with Ten
Faces (1966) as Helen Farheit
Killer's Carnival
(1966) as Denise (Rio segment)
Target for Killing
(1966) as Sandra Perkins
Die Nibelungen
(1966–1967, TV Series) as Brunhild
You Only Live
Twice (1967) as Helga Brandt / No.11
Die Schlangengrube
und das Pendel (1967) as Baroness Lilian von Brabant
Caroline chérie
[fr] (1968) as Isabelle de Loigny
The Valley of
Death (1968) as Mabel Kingsley
Topaz (1969) as
Juanita de Cordoba
Los Monstruos del
Terror (1970) as Maleva Kerstein
Haie an Bord [de]
(1971) as Andrea Jacobs
Only the Wind
Knows the Answer (1974) as Nicole Monnier
Warhead (1977) as
Liora
Women in Hospital
(1977) as Claudias Mutter
Dark Echo (1977)
as Lisa Bruekner
Johann Strauß –
Der König ohne Krone [de] (1987) as Jetty
Ich bin die Andere
[de] (2006) as Frau Winter
The Misplaced
World [de] (2015) as Rosa (final film role)
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