Catherine Schell

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Guido de Moor , Catherine von Schell and Piet Römer (1967)

Catherine Schell , also Catherina von Schell (born July 17, 1944 in Budapest , Hungary ), actually Katherina Schell von Bauschlott , is a British actress of Habsburg origin.

Life

Catherine Schell was born in Hungary as the daughter of Baron Paul von Schell Bauschlott . He was a well-respected diplomat whose possessions were confiscated by the Nazis during World War II . After the communists took power in Hungary in 1948, the family sought asylum in Austria . In 1950 she emigrated to the USA and Baron von Schell Bauschlott renounced his title in order to become a citizen of the United States. Catherine attended school in New York . In 1957 the family moved to Munich , where the father took a job at Radio Free Europe . In Munich, Catherine discovered her interest in acting and took lessons at the Otto Falckenberg School .

She made her film debut in 1964 as Catherine von Schell in the adventure film Lana - Queen of the Amazons . While filming the crime thriller Amsterdam Affair , she met the actor William Marlowe in 1968 . She married him and the couple moved to London . In 1969, she appeared in the films Bandits on the Moon and the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service . Callan and The Black Windmill followed in 1974 ; however, she made the greatest impression in The Pink Panther Returns (1975) with Peter Sellers . But Schell also made her way through television series such as Die 2 (1971), Gene Bradley in a secret mission (1972) and the science fiction series Mondbasis Alpha 1 (1975) with Barbara Bain and Martin Landau , in which she embodies the alien Maya known to a wide audience. In 1977 she divorced William Marlowe. In the same year she met the director Bill Hays , whom she married in 1982. Together they worked on the film A Month in the Country (1984).

Due to declining role offers, Catherine Schell retired from acting in the 1990s and opened a pension together with her husband in France , which the couple ran until Bill Hays' death in 2006.

One uncle was Baron Peter von Schell, who was the interior minister in Hungary and who was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp . One of her brothers, Paul von Schell, is Hildegard Knef's widower .

family

Catherine Schell is often mistaken for a member of the Swiss Schell family of actors , who are not related to her. Via a German great-grandfather, Schell is related to Louis XIV of France (1638–1715), Philippe II. De Bourbon, duc d'Orléans (1674–1723), Regent of France and Franz I Stephan , (1708–1765).

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Catherine Schell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Koblank: The Liberation of Special Prisoners and Kinship Prisoners in South Tyrol , online edition Mythos Elser 2006
  2. ^ Biography of Paul von Schell on imdb.com