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Ursula Andress
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Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss actress and former model who has appeared in American, British, and Italian films. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond parody Casino Royale. Other credits include Fun in Acapulco (1963), 4 for Texas (1963), She (1965), The 10th Victim (1965), The Blue Max (1966), The Southern Star (1969), Perfect Friday (1970), Red Sun (1971), The Sensuous Nurse (1975), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), Clash of the Titans (1981), and Peter the Great (1986).
Ursula Andress, the third of six children, was born on 19 March 1936…
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Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss actress and former model who has appeared in American, British, and Italian films. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond parody Casino Royale. Other credits include Fun in Acapulco (1963), 4 for Texas (1963), She (1965), The 10th Victim (1965), The Blue Max (1966), The Southern Star (1969), Perfect Friday (1970), Red Sun (1971), The Sensuous Nurse (1975), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), Clash of the Titans (1981), and Peter the Great (1986). Ursula Andress, the third of six children, was born on 19 March 1936 in Ostermundigen, Canton of Bern, to a Swiss mother, Anna, and Rolf Andress, a German diplomat. Her father was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons and her grandfather, a garden designer, became her guardian. She has a brother, Heinz, and four sisters, Erika, Charlotte, Gisela, and Kàtey. Andress went to school in Bern until she was 16 and learned several languages, including English, French, German, and Italian. She studied art in Paris for a year, then went to Rome, where she worked various jobs including being a children's nanny. Andress was at a party when she met a film producer who offered her a screen test for a role in an Italian film. She was successful and was cast in walk-on parts in An American in Rome (1954) (starring Alberto Sordi), Sins of Casanova (1955) (starring later Bond ally Gabriele Ferzetti), and La catena dell'odio (1955). She was seen by a Hollywood executive who persuaded her to try her luck in Hollywood. Andress arrived in Hollywood in late 1955. That spring she was signed to a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures, starting at $287 a week. The contract brought no acting roles, owing to her reluctance to learn English. "I spent most of my time watching old Marlene Dietrich movies", she said. Andress received some publicity for dating James Dean shortly before the actor's death. She bought herself out of her contract and in 1956 signed with Columbia Pictures. She made no films for them either. She stayed in Hollywood when she married John Derek in 1957. In 1959, it was announced she and Derek would star in a film, High Variety, but no film resulted. Source: Article "Ursula Andress" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Ares Gate: La fabbrica delle illusioni
as Self (archive footage)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
Famous T&A 2
as Susan Stevenson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
as Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Hollywood-Diven von ihrer erotischen Seite
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope: Entertaining the Troops
as Self
Belmondo by Belmondo
as Self (uncredited)
The Importance of Being Uncomfortable: Gualtiero Jacopetti
as Self
Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 1
as Self
Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory
as Self
Marcello, una vita dolce
as Self (archive footage)
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
as Self
St. Francis Birds Tour
as Madonna
The Best of So Graham Norton
as Self (archive footage)
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
as Self
Bond Girls Are Forever
as Herself
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
as Self
Terence Young: Bond Vivant
as Self
Inside 'Dr. No'
as Self
Harry Saltzman: Showman
as Self
Cremaster 5
as Queen of Chain
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery
as Self
The Cave of the Golden Rose 4
as Xellesia
The Cave of the Golden Rose 3
as Xellesia
No Poster
Hollywood on Horses
as Self
Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders
as Betty Starr
Broken Silence
as Agnes
Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond
as Self (archive footage)
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
as Marie-Antoinette
James Bond: The First 21 Years
as Self
Party in Rio
as Self
Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
as Mabel Dodge
Electric Blue 007
as Self (archive footage)
Famous T & A
as Susan Stevenson (archive footage)
Clash of the Titans
as Aphrodite
Reporters
as Self
The Fifth Musketeer
as Louise de La Vallière
Tigers in Lipstick
as The Stroller / The Widow
Slave of the Cannibal God
as Susan Stevenson
Double Murder
as Princess Anna Dell'Orso
Love in 4 Easy Lessons
as Marina (segment "La visita")
The Loves and Times of Scaramouche
as Josephine De Beauharnais
Safari Express
as Miriam
The Sensuous Nurse
as Anna
Africa Express
as Madeleine Cooper
Two hearts, a Chapel
as Ursula Andress (uncredited)
Loaded Guns
as Nora Green
Stateline Motel
as Michelle Nolton
Red Sun
as Cristina
The Bob Hope Christmas Special
as Self
Perfect Friday
as Lady Britt Dorset
The Southern Star
as Erica Kramer
Anyone Can Play
as Norma
Casino Royale
as Vesper Lynd
Once Before I Die
as Alex
The Blue Max
as Countess Kaeti von Klugermann
Up to His Ears
as Alexandrine Pinardel
The 10th Victim
as Caroline Meredith
The Incredible World of James Bond
as Self (archive footage)
What's New Pussycat?
as Rita
She
as Ayesha
Nightmare in the Sun
as Marsha Wilson
4 for Texas
as Maxine Richter
Fun in Acapulco
as Marguerita Dauphin
Dr. No
as Honey Ryder
Sins of Casanova
as viaggiatrice in carrozza
An American in Rome
as Astrid Sjöström