Karin Dor

Karin Dor, actually Kathe Rose Derr ( born February 22, 1938 in Wiesbaden ) is a German actress.

Life

The native Wiesbadenerin tried at a young age, first as Filmkomparsin, where she took a liking to the work before the camera. From 1954 to 1968 she was married to the 30 years older Austrian director Harald pure linen, who gave her her first voice and then put them in many of his films. Numerous sources give 1936 as her year of birth; which is due to the fact that Dor had himself spent two years older, around 1954 to marry without difficulties.

In the 1960s it was among the most popular actresses of the German entertainment cinema. She played in several movie serials, including Karl May and Edgar Wallace, Dr. Mabuse and Fu Manchu films with. Therein it was mostly the " persecuted innocence," the resolute and brave the villain defied until it was saved by the " good guys." In the Karl May Winnetou Western part 2 she was Ribanna, the great love of Winnetou. In 1994, she received the Scharlih Prize, the most prestigious award, which is connected with the name Karl May.

International Dor was known by the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967 ) and Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz (1969). They each died a spectacular death film: In Bond movie it was eaten as a red-haired agent Helga Brandt of piranhas, shot in Hitchcock as Cuban Juanita jealous of her lover. Hitchcock wanted the death scene look like a love scene: The camera was positioned directly over her and her scene partner John Vernon. You can hear the shot, Dor falls to the ground, and her violet -colored dress opens like a flower. Hitchcock had let it attach to the dress threads, on which was drawn by several people outside of the camera's angle of view at the moment of falling. Notable was the movie cast that two blonde actresses, Dany Robin as a woman and Claude Jade as a daughter of the French agents Frederick Stafford, also played a central main roles - and Dor as a brunette took the part of the beloved.

Until the early 1970s, she received again and again guest-starring roles in international film and television productions as It Takes a Thief ( It Takes a Thief ), or The Chief ( Ironside ). The general movie doldrums at that time and briefly occurred to her mental problems prevented an international career of the actress.

Karin Dor reoriented himself and plays since then a lot of theater, in classics such as Tartuffe, or in comedies such as The neuroses gentleman, with whom she performed until today well over 500 times. It also acts occasionally even in television and film productions. Her comeback in the movies they had in 2006 I am the Other as the alcoholic mother of Katja Riemann. Since August 2008 she plays in the written especially for her comedy One loves only three times, or the cat at the theater in the comedy at the Bayerischer Hof in Munich.

Karin Dor lived a long time in the United States. Because of her suffering from Alzheimer's third husband George Robotham, she returned to Germany. He died in February 2007 at the age of 86 years.

Filmography (selection)

TV shows