Katya Douglas

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Katya Douglas (born February 14, 1936 or 1938 as Catherine Osborne in Gdynia , Poland ) is a former film actress of British - Polish descent who appeared in British film and television productions from 1960 to 1965.

biography

family

Katya Douglas' father was the British writer Arthur Osborne (1906-1970), who grew up in Yorkshire ; her mother Ludka Lipszyc (1904–1987), who later called herself Łucja or Lucia Osborne, came from the Polish part of Silesia . Katya Douglas had two siblings: Adam (1939-2003) and Frania (* 1942). Her brother Adam Osborne became known as a software developer in the 1980s and is considered to be the pioneer of the laptop .

Surname

The birth name of Catherine Osborne is documented. In the family environment she was often called Kitty. In any case, she has been called Katya Douglas since she started working as an actress. Whether this is a stage name or whether she took the surname Douglas in connection with a marriage is not known. Even after the end of her film career, she used the name Katya Douglas from time to time - but not consistently. In 2001, for example, she wrote the foreword to her father's autobiography under this name, while a year and a half earlier she had signed a similar foreword with Kitty Osborne.

Life

Arthur Osborne lived after dropping out of a degree in history at Christ Church in Oxford , for about ten years in Poland, where he taught at an evening school in Katowice. Here he met Ludka Lipszyk, whom he married in 1932. After the couple moved to Gdynia on the Pomeranian Baltic coast, their first child was born there in February 1936 (according to other sources: 1938) with Catherine. A few months later, following the father's teaching assignments, the family moved first to Bangkok and finally to India in the spring of 1939 . While the father was temporarily interned in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Thailand , in the 1940s the children lived with the mother in the southern Indian state of Madras in the immediate vicinity of Guru Ramana Maharshi , whose followers were the members of the Osborne family. From 1950 the two oldest children stayed with their grandparents in England for a few years, where they finished their schooling. The eldest daughter then returned to South Asia, where she first worked in Calcutta and later in the Pakistani city ​​of Peshawar .

Douglas moved to Great Britain again in the late 1950s. From 1960 to 1965 she worked there as an actress. Douglas only played in supporting roles. She had one of her best-known roles in the 1963 Agatha Christie film The Wax Flower Bouquet , to which she contributed "the necessary degree of beauty" as Rosamund Shane. In addition, she appeared on several British television series.

Douglas spent much of the 1970s and 1980s with her children in London . She has lived in Ashrams in the southern Indian cities of Kodaikanal and Tiruvannamalai since the 1990s . Her brother Adam moved in with her in 1992 after he had a brain disease. Douglas looked after her sick brother until his death in 2003.

Partnerships and children

A marriage in 1955 is documented. The relationship broke up after a few years.

Since the mid-1960s, Douglas had a long-term relationship with the British real estate investor Jack Dellal (1923–2012), which resulted in two children. Their son Rowan (* 1969) is an entrepreneur, their daughter Jasmine Dellal (* 1972) worked as a film producer in Great Britain and the USA until at least 2009 . She temporarily ran the production company Little Dust Productions , named after the title of an essay by her grandfather Arthur Osborne. This essay ( For Those with Little Dust ) refers to a possibly made-up anecdote about Buddha who decided "for those with little dust" to teach people: There are people without dust in their eyes who do not need his teaching and others with dusty eyes who would not obey them anyway, but some would have little dust in their eyes and would be able to see with the help of his teaching.

Filmography

Feature films

  • 1960: The Invisible Shadow (The Full Treatment)
  • 1962: The Road to Hong Kong (The Road to Hong Kong)
  • 1962: Kill or Cure
  • 1963: The Gallop (Murder at the Gallop)
  • 1963: Flowers of the Triffids (The Day of the Triffids)

watch TV

  • 1961: A Chance of Thunder (series, 1 episode)
  • 1962: Disney Land (series, 2 episodes)
  • 1962–1963, 1965: reference number 01 (Zero One) (series, 21 episodes)
  • 1963: No Hiding Place (series, 1 episode)

literature

Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ A b Arthur Osborne: My Life and Quest , 2001, ISBN 81-88225-20-7 , p. 29.
  2. ↑ Katya Douglas on the website www.IMDb.com (accessed January 4, 2019).
  3. ^ Kitty Osborne: Łucja Osborne (1904-1987). www.indika.pl, November 20, 2018, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Matthias Kremp: The Schlepptop turns 30. In: Der Spiegel . April 4, 2011, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  5. ^ A b Martin Campbell-Kelly: Adam Osborne. In: The Independent . April 5, 2003, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Sri Ramanasramam: Arthur Osborne. www.innerdirections.org, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  7. ^ Arthur Osborne: My Life and Quest , 2001, ISBN 81-88225-20-7 , p. IX.
  8. ^ Arthur Osborne: My Life and Quest , 2001, ISBN 81-88225-20-7 , pp. 24-27.
  9. ↑ a b Arthur Osborne: My Life and Quest , 2001, ISBN 81-88225-20-7 , p. 122 f.
  10. ↑ John Howard Reid: GREAT CINEMA DETECTIVES: Best Movies of Mystery, Suspense & Film Noir. In: Lulu.com , 2006, ISBN 978-1847286857 , p. 142 (English).
  11. ↑ Euan McLelland: Ex-beauty queen speaks out after being left 'only' £ 15m by her tycoon husband sues his children for bigger share of £ 400m fortune. In: Daily Mail . July 26, 2015, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Jasmine Dellal In: IMDb , accessed on January 4, 2020 (English).
  13. ↑ Little Dust Productions website with references to Katya Douglas and Arthur Osborne. , accessed on January 4, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Douglas, Katya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Osborne, Catherine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Polish actress
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1936 or February 14, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Gdynia , Poland