Dimitra Arliss

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Dimitra Arliss (born October 23, 1932 in Lorain , Ohio - † January 26, 2012 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American actress .

Life

Arliss was of Greek- American descent. She began her career as a stage actress at the Goodman Theater in Chicago . She performed several times in New York City on Broadway . 1969/1970 she played there at the Brooks Atkinson Theater in the play Indians by Arthur Kopit the role of the Indian Teskanjavila; her stage partner as Buffalo Bill was Stacy Keach . Other stage roles on Broadway were Eurydice in Antigone by Sophocles (1971, Vivien Beaumont Theater) and Katherina Petkoff in Helden (1985, Circle in the Square Theater); in the latter play she played alongside Kevin Kline and John Malkovich (each as Lieutenant Bluntschli).

Arliss also worked for cinema, and in particular for American television. In the hoodlum comedy The Clou (1973), she played the attractive but worn-out waitress and hit man Loretta Salino at the side of Robert Redford and Paul Newman . She attracts the attention of the film character Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford), is supposed to kill Hooker after a night together, but is prevented from doing so shortly before and dies herself. In the film musical Xanadu (1980), she took on the role of Helen. In the action film Firefox (1982) by director Clint Eastwood , she was the Russian Natalia. In the horror thriller Die Prophezeiung (2000) she played the role of the weird and strange kidnapper Dahnya.

In the course of her career, Arliss has regularly taken on cinema roles; however, she also mainly worked for television . Arliss played numerous roles in US television series . In the miniseries Reich und Arm (1976) she had a continuous serial role as Maria Falconetti; she played the sister of the gang boss Arthur Falconetti. She starred in the role of Lisa Fielding in several episodes of the crime series Quincy between 1976 and 1979 . For some episodes she also took on the role of Helena Cassadine in the soap opera General Hospital (1993; 1996).

She had other episode roles and guest roles on the television series Lucas Tanner (1974), Kojak - Einsatz in Manhattan (1974), Mannix (1975), and Dallas (1979). In the latter series, she played one episode of the nurse Hatton, who supplies the series character Sue Ellen Ewing with alcohol during a stay in a sanatorium.

Arliss also worked as a voice actress . She voiced various roles in the animated series The Invincible Iron Man (1994). She also voiced the character Anastasia Hardy in the animated series New Spider-Man (1996).

Arliss died on 26 January 2012 at the age of 79 years in the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital in Los Angeles from the effects of a stroke .

Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Dimitra Aliss, actress in “The Sting,” dead at 79 ( memento of the original from February 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Obituary on the Big Cartoons News website on January 28, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.bcdb.com
  2. ↑ a b The Sting actress Dimitra Arliss dies in LA  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Obituary in: San Francisco Chronicle January 28, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sfgate.com  
  3. ↑ Dimitra Arliss Dead at 79 Obituary (with photo)
personal data
SURNAME Arliss, Dimitra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Lorain , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2012
Place of death Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California