Karin Dor dead: Bond Girl passes away aged 79

BOND GIRL Karin Dor has passed away at the age of 79, it has been reported.

By Becca Longmire

 

PUBLISHED: 17:14, Wed, Nov 8, 2017 | UPDATED: 19:04, Wed, Nov 8, 2017

The actress - who starred in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice - is said to have died on Monday evening in a nursing home.
Karin had a heavy fall last year and could not recover, according to German reports.
It was claimed in July that Karin had had serious health problems after suffering a severe concussion following an accident with a woman with a pram.
It was only during the rehearsals for the theatre play Der dressierte Mann (The Trained husband) weeks after the fall, did Karin end up getting the right diagnosis and treatment.

 

 

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Karin Dor has passed away at the age of 79

 

 

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Karin starred in Bond movie You Only Live Twice

 

 

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Karin is said to have suffered a heavy fall last year

“I was often dizzy and would have needed rest,” she said in an interview in November last year.
Tributes have been pouring in for the star - who also had a role in the Alfred Hitchcock movie Topaz - on Twitter since the sad news emerged online.
One person wrote: “#RIP #KarinDor - unforgettable #Bondgirl in, you only live twice“ (1967). #Hollywood #JamesBond.”

 

 

Karin Dor, Bond Girl in 'You Only Live Twice,' Dies at 79

11:31 AM PST 11/8/2017 by Mike Barnes

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Karin Dor in 'You Only Live Twice' (1967)

Karin Dor also appeared in Hitchcock's 'Topaz' and in films with Christopher Lee and Lex Barker.

Karin Dor, who played the red-haired villainess Helga Brandt in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, died Monday in a nursing home in Munich, her son told the Bild newspaper. She was 79.
The German beauty also had a key role as a revolutionary in the Alfred Hitchcock Cuban missile crisis thriller Topaz (1969) and appeared opposite Christopher Lee in The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962), one of more than a dozen films she made with her then-husband, Austrian director Harald Reinl.
In her most famous role, Dor worked for the evil Blofeld (Donald Pleasence) as SPECTRE agent No. 11. Her character can't resist the advances of 007 (Sean Connery), then gets dropped into a pool of piranhas, paying the ultimate price for failing to dispose of the British spy.
Dor regularly appeared with Tarzan actor Lex Barker in several German films adapted from the Karl May novels about the American Wild West, including The Treasure of the Silver Lake (1962), Winnetou: The Red Gentleman (1964), Winnetou: The Last Shot (1965) and The Valley of Death (1968).
She played a murderess in Room 13 (1964), and her film résumé also included Lee's The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967) — another picture with Barker and Reinl — Warhead (1977), starring David Janssen, and I Am the Other Woman (2006).
American TV audiences also could spot her in episodes of It Takes a Thief, Ironside and The F.B.I. She more recently worked in the German theater.

 

Karin Dor (born Kätherose Derr; 22 February 1938 – 6 November 2017) was a German actress who became popular in the 1960s playing heroines in Edgar Wallace and Karl May movies. She starred in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice and the Alfred Hitchcock movie Topaz. In later years, she performed mainly stage roles but still appeared in some films.
Dor was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. She was married three times: one of her husbands was George Robotham, a U.S. stunt-director, from 1988 until his death in 2007. The couple lived in Los Angeles and Munich. Her previous marriage was to Harald Reinl (1954–68); she had a child by that marriage.
In 2008 she was on stage again in Munich in Man liebt nur dreimal ("You Only Love Thrice").^[1] Dor died at a nursing home in Munich on 6 November 2017.^[2]

 

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