Barbara Trentham

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Barbara Trentham (born August 27, 1944 in Brooklyn , New York , † August 2, 2013 in Chicago , Illinois ) was an American actress in film and television. She played various roles in international film and television productions in the 1970s. Including in Rollerball , On the Eagle's Track , The Girls from Outer Space or Wolf Moon . Since the late 1980s she worked as a painter.

life and career

Barbara Trentham, born in Brooklyn in 1944, moved to Weston , Connecticut with her parents as a child, and graduated from Staples High School in Westport in 1962 . She then attended Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts in 1966, where she graduated, and then moved to England that year to study art at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University. During her time at Oxford she met her future husband, fellow student Giles Trentham (marriage 1967), and decided to keep the name after their divorce in 1970.

In the early 1970s, Barbara Trentham was a model in London . Her photo appeared several times on the cover of English magazines, first in magazines like Seventeen and later in Vogue and other magazines. Her attractiveness, fame and talent helped her in 1972 to her first supporting role at the side of Shirley MacLaine , Perry King , David Elliott and Lisa Kohane in Waris Hussein's horror thriller The Possession of Joel Delaney .

She then moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s to pursue an acting career. She starred in Norman Jewison's science fiction classic Rollerball alongside James Caan , John Houseman , Maud Adams and John Beck . In 1976 she was seen in the action drama On the Trail of the Eagle with James Coburn and Susannah York by director Douglas Hickox . In the same year she also had an appearance in the British-German television series The Girls from Space with Pierre Brice and Christian Quadflieg . In 1978 she appeared in Bruce Kessler's television horror film Wolfsmond and in 1979 in an episode of the adventure series A Man Called Sloane . At the same time, she worked on television in Los Angeles until 1980 as a reporter and producer of Those Amazing Animals . There she met her second husband, the British actor and comedian John Cleese . The two married in February 1981, their daughter Camilla Cleese was born in 1984. In 1990 the couple separated again. Barbara and John Cleese remained friendly for a lifetime.

During her marriage to John Cleese, her great love for art was awakened and she began a third career as a painter. She preferred to paint in oils. In 1993 she moved to Chicago, where she met lawyer George Covington. The two married in 1998 and lived in Lake Bluff , Illinois . Barbara Trentham set up an art studio in her home country, which became a meeting point and source of inspiration for local artists. She was also a co-founder of a local organization for artists. Starting in 2003, she began spending a substantial portion of each year in Jackson Hole , Wyoming , where the landscape inspired her art. She became a member of the Jackson Hole Art Association , organizing and running events and art fairs.

Barbara Trentham died of leukemia on August 2, 2013 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago at the age of 68.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1972: The Possession of Joel Delaney
  • 1975: Rollerball
  • 1976: On the track of the eagle (Sky Riders)
  • 1976: Star Maidens (Star Maidens) (TV series, one episode)
  • 1978: Wolfsmond (Death Moon) (TV movie)
  • 1979: A Man Called Sloane (TV series, one episode)

literature

  • Barbara Trentham . In: Variety's Film Reviews: 1975–1977 , Bowker, May 1, 1989. Online at books.google.de.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara Trentham in: Contemporary Theater, Film and Television , Volume 14, Terrie M. Rooney, David Galens, Gale, 1996, p. 56
  2. ↑ Barbara Trentham in: Chicago Sun-Times ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.suntimes.com
  3. ^ Obituary for Barbara Trentham in: The Times
personal data
SURNAME Trentham, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress and model
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York , USA
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 2013
Place of death Chicago , Illinois , USA