Aliza Gur

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Aliza Gur (1964)

Aliza Gur ( Hebrew עליזה גור; actually Alizia Gross ; * April 1, 1944 in Ramat Gan ) is an Israeli actress and former model . She won the Miss Israel title in 1960 .

Life

Aliza Gur was born as Alizia Gross in Ramat Gan. Her parents had fled Germany during the Second World War to join the League of Nations mandate for Palestine , where she and her brother grew up in Haifa . Gur began her career as a model and won the Miss Israel title in 1960 . In the same year she also reached second place in the Miss Universe election.

After her success as a model, Gur moved to California , where she began her career as a film and television actress. A little later, her parents also moved to the United States, where they both lived until her death in the 1970s. Gur played her best-known role in 1963 as Vida in James Bond 007 - Greetings from Moscow , who fights for a man with her opponent Zora (played by Martine Beswick ) in a gypsy camp visited by Bond . Although her appearance in the film was only brief, the fight scene achieved high fame and was described as "shocking" for the time. Overall, Gur worked in more than twenty feature films and several television series by the end of her career in 1973. Among other things, she embodied the female lead in 1967 as the photo reporter Myrna in Tarzan and the Jungle Boy .

Aliza Gur was married twice and has a son from her first marriage. She lives in Beverly Hills today .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1963: James Bond 007 - From Russia with Love
  • 1964: Jungle Beauty (The Beauty Jungle)
  • 1964: Night Train to Paris
  • 1965: Big Valley ( The Big Valley ; television series, one episode)
  • 1965: Perry Mason (TV series, an episode)
  • 1966: Agent for HARM
  • 1967: Kill a Dragon
  • 1967: Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
  • 1968: The Hand of Night
  • 1969: Mini-Max ( Get Smart ; TV series, an episode)
  • 1969: The Wild Wild West ( The Wild Wild West , television series, one episode)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aliza Gur. In: glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com. Retrieved October 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Robert A. Caplen: Shaken & Stirred: The Feminism of James Bond . Robert Caplen, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4535-1282-1 , page 98.
personal data
SURNAME Gur, Aliza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gross, Alizia (real name); עליזה גור (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli actress and former model
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Ramat Gan