Ziva Rodann
Ziva Rodann (also Ziva Shapir , actually Ziva Shapiro , born March 2, 1935 in Haifa ) is an Israeli actress .
From the second half of the 1950s, Rodann had roles in US television series such as The Strange Adventures of Hiram Holliday , Behind Closed Doors, West of Santa Fé , Bonanza , In the Wild West, Solo for ONKEL , Perry Mason , The Real McCoys , Mr Lucky and Whenever He Took Pills . In the television series Batman , she played the role of Queen Nefertiti . From 1957 she worked in supporting roles in several feature films; at the side of Kirk Douglas she played an Indian in the John Sturges -Western The Last Train from Gun Hill (1959). She returned to Israel in the late 1960s.
Rodann's film and television career was heavily overshadowed by her private life; she was said to have affairs with film producers and actors, including Cary Grant . She was one of the actresses, along with María Elena Marqués and Katy Jurado , who were used to portray non-Anglo-American roles in the 1950s.
Filmography (selection)
- 1957: The Story of Mankind - Directed by Irwin Allen
- 1957: The Tattered Dress - Director: Jack Arnold
- 1957: 40 guns (Forty Guns) - Director: Samuel Fuller
- 1958: The Brothers Karamazov (The Brothers Karamazov) - Director: Richard Brooks
- 1959: The last train from Gun Hill (Last Train from Gun Hill)
- 1959: Greed for Blood (Macumba Love)
- 1959: The Big Operator
- 1960: College Confidential - Director: Albert Zugsmith
- 1960: The Book of Ruth (The Story of Ruth) - Director: Henry Koster
- 1960: The sword of the red giant (I giganti della Tessaglia) - Director: Riccardo Freda
- 1960: The Private Lives of Adam and Eve - Directed by Mickey Rooney , Albert Zugsmith
- 1962: The Rebel of Palawan (Samar) - Director: George Montgomery
- 1963: The Girl with the Pious Eye (Les saintes-nitouches) - Director: Pierre Montazel
- 1964: 3 Nuts in Search of a Bolt - Directed by Tommy Noonan
Web links
- Ziva Rodann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Portrait side
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Weaver: Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde: Interviews with 62 Filmmakers. 2010
- ↑ Other sources give March 22nd as the day and 1933 or 1937 as the year of birth, see the biography of Ziva Rodann on briansdriveintheater.com
- ^ Charles Higham, Roy Moseley: Cary Grant: The Lonely Heart. 1990, p. 292
- ↑ M. Marubbio: Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film. 2006, p. 81
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rodann, Ziva |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shapir, Ziva; Shapiro, Ziva (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haifa |