Ursula Andress

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Ursula Andress at Somerset House , London (2004)

Ursula Andress (born March 19, 1936 in Ostermundigen , Canton of Bern ) is a Swiss actress who was the first Bond girl in the 1962 film James Bond to hunt Dr. No gained fame and then started an international career. It was awarded the Golden Globe in 1964.

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Early years

Ursula Andress was born as the daughter of the German Rolf Andress and a Swiss woman. It is rumored that her father was consul in Bern and was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons. Thereupon the grandfather, who ran a nursery near Ostermundigen, took care of Ursula and her five siblings (according to other sources between four and six). In retrospect, she described her childhood as “incredibly unique, almost like in the 17th century”. The hard work in the family business of the strict grandfather taught her respect and discipline: "It gave me the strength to face all the hurdles in life".

Andress attended a girls' school in Bern, which she left at the age of 16. She later went to Paris , where she took courses in dance, drawing and sculpture. In Rome she then worked as a model for painters and photographers. In the process, she acquired extensive language skills. She was close friends with James Dean . She remembers well on September 30, 1955, the day Dean had an accident: “In the morning at seven o'clock he picked me up at home. Jimmy said, 'Come on, we're going to San Francisco together.' ”At that moment, John Derek , her future husband, had come. “James saw John and knew I loved John Derek. He said, 'Okay, John, let's take a drive' and raced through the neighborhood with John to have a conversation with men. When he came back, he said to me, 'I know you are not coming with me.' And then he went away. I think that was his fate. ”Andress and Derek married in 1957 and divorced in 1966.

Career

Ursula Andress celebrates her 70th birthday in 2006 on the yacht Britannia

Marlon Brando is said to have advised her to start a career as an actress. Ursula Andress got her first film role in Casanova in 1955 - his love and adventure .

Their breakthrough achieved in 1962 as the first Bond girl of James Bond - film series; in James Bond, Dr. No , she played the female lead role of the mussel diver 'Honey Ryder'. The scene in which she emerged from the sea in a white belted bikini (known as Dr.-No-Bikini ) became legendary. With her athletic, body-hugging portrayal, she set the style for the role of the self-confident, beautiful woman. She received the Golden Globe Award for Best Young Actress in 1964 . In 1967 she was in the film Casino Royale again as Bond girl in front of the camera; however, the strip is not part of the official James Bond film series. Andress was voted “Best Bond Girl of All Time” by numerous magazines, including Empire Magazine in 2006 and Entertainment Weekly in 2008 .

Ursula Andress cultivated her image as a seductive Venus and worked in suitable roles in many international productions, especially in the 1960s and 70s. Because of the accumulation of film roles in skimpy costumes, she was derided by critics as "Ursula Undress".

In 1981 she starred in one of her last major box office hits in Clash of the Titans . Then Andress was mostly in front of the camera for television productions.

Personal

In 1965 it appeared in the June issue of Playboy . The photos it contained were of her husband. When asked why she made herself available for these nude photos, she replied: “Because I'm beautiful.” After her separation from Derek, she had an eight-year relationship with the French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo , with whom she, among other things, had Film The Great Adventures of Monsieur L. (1965) shot. In 1980, at the age of 44, she gave birth to her son Dimitri Alexander, whose father is the actor Harry Hamlin , whom she met while filming Clash of the Titans .

On the occasion of the inauguration of the Swiss Consulate General in Scotland on May 18, 2006, Andress celebrated her 70th birthday on board the Britannia in Edinburgh . She was driven to the royal yacht in the Aston Martin DB5 , with which her film partner Sean Connery made film history in the James Bond films Goldfinger and Thunderball .

Filmography

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  • 1962: Thriller: (TV series, episode 2x17 La Strega )
  • 1983: A Case for Professor Chase (TV series, episode 1x01 Manimal )
  • 1983: Love Boat (TV series, episodes 7x01–7x02)
  • 1986: Peter the Great (TV miniseries)
  • 1988: Falcon Crest (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1988: Jack Clementi - Wrong Game ( Big Man: Diva ; TV series)
  • 1989: The Secret of Pier Six ( Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders ; TV movie)
  • 1991: Ti ho adottato per simpatia (TV movie)
  • 1992: Primero izquierda (TV movie)
  • 1993: Princess Fantaghirò Part III (TV movie)
  • 1994: Princess Fantaghirò Part IV (TV movie)
  • 1996: Everything lied (TV movie)

Awards

  • 1964: Golden Globe : Best Young Actress for James Bond chases Dr. No
  • 1966: Nomination for the Henrietta Award for Most Popular Actress of the Year
  • 2006: Empire Magazine - Best Bond Girl of All Time
  • 2007: DIVA - Lifetime Achievement Award

literature

  • Michael Marti , Peter Wälty: James Bond and Switzerland. Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-905800-20-3 .
  • Michael Scheingraber: The James Bond Films. Edited by Joe Hembus. Goldmann, Munich 1979, 220 p. (Goldmann Magnum; 10203) (Citadel-Filmbücher) ISBN 3-442-10203-0 .
  • Graham Rye: The James Bond Girls. [from Dr. No to Goldeneye]. Translation: Walther Wuttke. Heel, Königswinter 1995, 70 pages, ISBN 3-89365-478-X . (Uniform title: The James Bond girls)
  • Sven Siedenberg: Do you remember? Small album of forgotten heroes. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2005, 139 pp. (Dtv 20839), ISBN 3-423-20839-2 .
  • Susanna von Werra: Famous Personalities, Volume I: 100 contemporary film actors and actresses. Résumés and horoscopes; Volume II: 100 directors and classic film actors and actresses. CVs and horoscopes. Edition Astrodate, Wettswil (Switzerland) 1989, 450 pages.

Web links

Commons : Ursula Andress  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. Anstead, Mark: Bond girl who made a killing from guardian.co.uk, December 7, 2002 (accessed March 8, 2011)
  2. ↑ a b cf. Ursula Andress . In: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 04/2001 from January 15, 2001, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 43/2005 (accessed on March 8, 2011 via Munzinger Online )
  3. ↑ cf. Althen, Michael: Beloved Venus . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 18, 2006, No. 66, p. 36
  4. ^ Selling sex The Independent , October 20, 2011. Retrieved February 5, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Andress, Ursula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Ostermundigen , Canton of Bern, Switzerland