Catherine Schell Pics

Catherine

Schell

17 July 1944

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Budapest, Hungary

Cancer

Female

Slim

Brown - Light

Hungarian

White

Space: 1999

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Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott (born 17 July 1944, in Budapest) is an Hungarian-born actress best known for her work in England with the BBC.

Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott (born July 17, 1944, in Budapest) is an Hungarian-born actress best known for her work in England with the BBC. Schell rose to fame in various British film and television productions in the 1960s and 1970s. She acted under the name Catherine von Schell early in her career, but is better known by the name Catherine Schell. Under the name Catherine von Schell she made her film debut in 1964 as the title character in the little-known German-language film Lana: Queen of the Amazons (AKA "Lana - Königin der Amazonen"). While filming The Amsterdam Affair in 1968 she met and married her first husband, the British actor William Marlowe (1932–2004) and moved to London. In 1969, she appeared as Bond girl "Nancy" in the George Lazenby James Bond film On Her Majesty`s Secret Service and as Clementine Taplin in the science fiction thriller Moon Zero Two. In 1972, she appeared for the first time under the name Catherine Schell in Madame Sin, an American television movie starring Bette Davis. In 1975, she appeared opposite Peter Sellers in the comedy The Return of the Pink Panther as Lady Claudine Lytton. It is frequently claimed that her tendency to break into uncontrollable laughter at Sellers`s antics as inspector Clouseau ruined many takes. In 1975 she appeared in a first season episode of the ITC television science fiction series Space: 1999 entitled Guardian of Piri, playing the guardian`s robotic servant. She returned as a regular cast member in the second season in the role of Maya the alien "metamorph" from the planet Psychon, perhaps her most popular character. Her marriage to Marlowe was dissolved in 1977 and she met the director Bill Hays. They married in 1982 and in 1984 worked together on the TV production of A Month in the Country. In 1979, she appeared in a popular serial of the BBC series Doctor Who entitled City of Death as the Countess Scarlioni, wife of the episode`s villain. She also played regular roles in other television series such as The Adventurer, One By One, Mog and Wish Me Luck, in addition to many other guest appearances, including The Persuaders!, The Troubleshooters, Arthur of the Britons, Return of the Saint, The Sweeney, The Onedin Line, The Gentle Touch, Lovejoy, Bergerac, The Bill and Howards` Way. Schell`s acting career continued into the mid-1990s, after which she retired from acting and opened Chambre d`Hôtes Valentin, a small guesthouse in Bonneval, Haute-Loire, France which was a popular destination for fans of Space: 1999. She reportedly sold the inn after her husband died. Schell made her first convention appearance in NYC during MainMission:2000, the 1th anniversary convention for Space:1999, but has appeared only one other time at a convention, largely due to the declining health of her second husband, Bill Hays, who died on March 6, 2006.

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Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott

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