Honor Blackman

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Honor Blackman (born August 22, 1925 in Plaistow, London , † April 5, 2020 in Lewes , East Sussex ) was a British actress . She gained fame with the role of Pussy Galore in the James Bond film Goldfinger and as Dr. Catherine Gale in the British TV series The Avengers (With Umbrella, Charm and Bowler Hat) .

Life

After studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Blackman began her stage career in 1948. At the same time, she developed into a popular British film actress in the 1950s, after making her cinema debut in a small role in 1947. She embodied 1962-1964 in the second and third season of the British television series The Avengers (dt. The Avengers and melon ) , the Agent "Dr. Catherine Gale" as a female protagonist on the side of John Steed (played by Patrick Macnee ) . The character is considered to be one of the first emancipated female characters in television history. Many of Blackman's characters were distinguished by their elegant, grown-up and self-confident demeanor, for example the goddess Hera in Jason and the Argonauts .

In 1964 she played her most famous role as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger , they Albert R. Broccoli According because of its reputation in the UK as Dr. Gale got. When she was filming Goldfinger , she was 38 years old, making her the oldest Bond girl (now Monica Bellucci , aged 50 when James Bond 007: Specter was being made ). She was also one of three Bond girls whose actresses were older than the respective Bond actor; the other two are Diana Rigg (Blackman's successor as Emma Peel in Mit Schirm, Charme und Melon ) in On Her Majesty's Secret Service and the aforementioned Monica Bellucci. She later successfully continued the pattern of her self-confident female characters in Shaloko with her Bond partner Sean Connery as a noblewoman in the Wild West.

In addition to her film and television career, Blackman remained connected to the stage and starred in the musical productions My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music . From the 1970s she was increasingly in front of the camera for television productions and, among other things, played Professor Lasky in four episodes of the Doctor Who series in 1986 . From 1990 to 1996 she starred in the sitcom The Upper Hand as an energetic grandmother helping out her single daughter. In the new millennium, Blackman played supporting roles in the movies Bridget Jones - Chocolate for Breakfast and Cockneys vs Zombies , as well as a guest role on Inspector Barnaby , and she appeared as Duchess Lucinda in the Rosamunde-Pilcher television film The Magic of Love . She was most recently in front of the camera for the British sitcom You, Me & Them (2015).

Private

Honor Blackman was married twice, from 1946 to 1956 to Bill Sankey and from 1963 to 1975 to the British actor Maurice Kaufmann , with whom she adopted two children (Barnaby and Lottie) and starred in the film Fright (1971).

In 2002 she was to be named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), which she turned down because of her Republican views as a party member of the Liberal Democrats . Blackman died in south east England in 2020 at the age of 94.

synchronization

Honor Blackman was dubbed in Goldfinger (like Diana Rigg in the Bond film James Bond 007 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service) by Margot Leonard . Blackman's voice actress Sabine Arnhold was in the series With Umbrella, Charm and Melone .

Filmography (selection)

Fonts

  • Honor Blackman: Nobody is defenseless. The art of protecting yourself from harassment and attack. Bern / Munich 1967 - Original title: Honor Blackman's Book of Self-Defense. New York 1965

Web links

Commons : Honor Blackman  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London birth register, III. Quarter 1925
  2. ↑ James Bond actress Honor Blackman dies aged 94 on bbc.com
  3. ↑ a b Simon Murphy, Andrew Pulver: Honor Blackman, James Bond's Pussy Galore, dies aged 94 . In: The Guardian . April 6, 2020, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed April 6, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Vincent Cosgrove: On 'The Avengers, "Catherine Gale Was a Proto-Emma Peel . In: The New York Times . July 9, 2006, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 7, 2020]).
  5. ↑ Peter Bradshaw: Honor Blackman: an elegant, witty star who never took herself too seriously . In: The Guardian . April 6, 2020, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed April 7, 2020]).
  6. ↑ Tobias Kniebe: Honor Blackman is dead. Accessed April 10, 2020 .
  7. ^ Honor Blackman Biography. In: filmreference.com. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .
  8. ^ Neil Norman: Honor Blackman turns 90: Hollywood's tough-women owe a debt to The Avengers star. In: The Independent . August 22, 2015, accessed March 20, 2020 .
  9. ^ Honor Blackman on synchronkartei.de
personal data
SURNAME Blackman, Honor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 2020
Place of death Lewes , East Sussex