Tiffany Bolling

Tiffany Bolling (* 6. February 1947 in Santa Monica , California as Tiffany Royce Kral ) is an American singer, actress and TV presenter.

life and career

Bolling was born out of wedlock to a pianist and singer who both worked in California show business. As a teenager, she began performing as a singer in front of smaller audiences during her school education in Malibu . She first appeared on screen in 1967 after receiving a small role in the detective film The Sniffer ( Tony Rome , 1967) starring Frank Sinatra . Two years later, she made her breakthrough as an actress with a highly regarded guest role in two episodes of the TV series Bonanza .

Bolling received a contract with the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation and was cast in the following years for various American television series, including a leading role in the series The New People , and several films. Her parallel efforts to make a career as a singer, in contrast, were relatively unsuccessful. With the anti-war song Thank God The War Is Over (1970), she released a nationally acclaimed single record on the Canyon Records label , but her subsequent album Tiffany flopped.

In April 1972, Bolling had nude recordings published in Playboy , which had an impact on her role offers. As a result, B-movie projects in the exploitation genre in particular were approached, while offers for larger productions were not made. She took on leading roles in films such as Bonnie's Kids (based on Bonnie and Clyde ), the kidnapping thriller The Candy Snatchers and the horror film Wicked, Wicked , which earned her the reputation of Queen of the B's in the mid-1970s .

She played her best-known role in 1977 in the surprisingly successful animal horror film Killer Spinnen ( Kingdom of the Spiders ) as a smart scientist alongside William Shatner as the local veterinarian. The production, which cost only about $ 500,000, grossed around 20 million at the box office. As a result, she was back for namhaftere productions such as the TV series A man in the mountains ( The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams ) and Charlie's Angels ( Charlie's Angels committed). The producers of the Z Channel also hired her as a talk show host for a newly launched show with celebrity guests from Hollywood. The talk show was later taken over by Charles Champlin .

In the 1980s, Bolling's TV and screen presence decreased. She played her last major role in 1984 in Love Scenes with Franc Luz and Julie Newmar . Bolling now lives in Marina del Rey with her third husband, Robert Casares .

literature

• Bill Landis, Michelle Clifford: Sleazoid Express , Touchstone Verlag, New York 2002, pp. 235 ff.

Web links

• Tiffany Bolling in the Internet Movie Database (English)