Martine Beswick

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Martine Beswick , also Martine Beswicke (born September 26, 1941 in Port Antonio , Jamaica ) is a British actress .

Life

Beswick was born in Jamaica to British parents. Her parents divorced when Beswick was eight, and at the age of twelve she moved to England with her mother and sister to attend school. At the age of thirteen she began to take acting lessons as well as to learn the profession of secretary.

A few years later, Beswick went back to Jamaica to work as a photo model and participate in beauty pageants. She worked for the Jamaica Tourism Bureau, for which she appeared in commercials. Some of Beswick's film recordings came to England in the hands of the MCA agency, who offered Beswick to introduce themselves to them. Beswick moved back to England, and MCA then brought her in for a film role in the first James Bond film, Dr. No into conversation. However, she was rejected due to a lack of acting experience.

As a result, the director Robert Hartford-Davies Beswick gave a first small film role as a barmaid in Saturday Night Out .

Then she appeared in the second Bond film From Love from Moscow as the gypsy Zora, who fought with her rival Vida (played by Miss Israel 1960 Aliza Gur ). In the opening sequence, however, she was incorrectly stated as "Martin Beswick". In the next Bond film by director Terence Young Fireball , she appeared as Paula Kaplan, Bond's assistant. Since Beswick hadn't lived in the Caribbean for a long time, she had to sunbathe two weeks before filming started to make her look like a local.

In the meantime, Beswick has made a few appearances on television series.

In the 1966 Hammer film A Million Years Before Our Time , Beswick appeared with Raquel Welch and John Richardson , with whom she began a relationship. A year later followed another, similarly designed hammer film with The Slave of the Amazons . In 1966 she played Adelita in Damiano Damiani's "political" Italo-Western Kill Amigo alongside Klaus Kinski and Gian Maria Volontè . In 1968 Beswick moved to Los Angeles to live with Richardson. However, their relationship ended in the early 1970s.

In 1971 she appeared again in a production of the Hammer Studios, namely in one of the leading roles in Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde .

She later appeared regularly in film and television productions, had numerous guest appearances in television series such as Mannix , The Six Million Dollar Man , Fantasy Island , Hard But Warm , A Colt Just In Case , Falcon Crest and Sledge Hammer! .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Martine Beswick, profiled by Maitland McDonagh at awfj.org , accessed on November 12, 2012
  2. ↑ Interview with Martine Beswick ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2007 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. from mjsimpson.co.uk , accessed November 12, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mjsimpson.co.uk
  3. ↑ Production Notes - Thunderball on mi6-hq.com (English), accessed on November 12, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Beswick, Martine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beswicke, Martine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Antonio , Jamaica