Martine Beswick
Martine Beswick; Martine also Beswicke ( born September 26, 1941 in Port Antonio, Jamaica ) is a British actress.
Life
Beswick was born as the daughter of British parents in Jamaica. As Beswick was eight years old, her parents divorced and at the age of twelve, she moved with her mother and sister to England, there to attend school. At thirteen, she began both to take acting classes, as well as to learn the profession of a secretary.
A few years later Beswick went back to Jamaica to work as a photo model and to participate in beauty contests. She worked for the Tourist Office of Jamaica, for which she appeared in commercials. Some footage Beswicks came to England in the hands of the agency MCA, who offered Beswick, introduce yourself to them. Beswick moved back to England and MCA brought them then for a roll of film in the first James Bond film Dr. No from this week. It was rejected, because they still had no previous acting experience.
As a result, the director Robert Hartford -Davies Beswick was a first small film role as a barmaid in Saturday Night Out.
Then she stepped into the second Bond film From Russia with Love on as the gypsy Zora who (played by the Miss Israel Aliza Gur 1960 ) struggled with her rival Vida. In the opening sequence, but it was incorrectly specified as " Martin Beswick ". In the next Bond film by director Terence Young fireball she appeared as Paula Kaplan, the helpmeet Bonds on. Since Beswick had now no longer lived in the Caribbean long, she had to take sun baths before shooting, so that they looked like a native for her role two weeks.
In the meantime, Beswick had several appearances on television series.
In the published in 1966 Hammer film One Million Years BC Beswick occurred along with Raquel Welch and John Richardson, with whom she began a relationship. A year later, with the slave of the Amazons by another of equal scale Hammer film. In 1966, she played the Damiano Damiani in Adelita " political " spaghetti westerns Kill Amigo on the side of Klaus Kinski and Gian Maria Volonte. 1968 Beswick moved to Los Angeles to live together there with Richardson. However, their relationship was in the early 1970s in the fractures.
She walked regularly in film and television productions, has had numerous guest appearances on television series such as Mannix, The Six Million Dollar Man, Fantasy Iceland, Hart to Hart, The Fall Guy, Falcon Crest and Sledge Hammer! . In 1971, she appeared again in a production of Hammer Studios, in one of the lead roles in Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde.