Ursula Andress
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 19, 1936 (age 90)
- Birthplace
- Ostermundigen, Bern, Switzerland
Biography
Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss actress and former model who has appeared in American, British, and Italian films. Her breakthrough role was as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the 1967 Bond parody Casino Royale. Other credits include Fun in Acapulco (1963), 4 for Texas (1963), She (1965), The 10th Victim (1965), The Blue Max (1966), The Southern Star (1969), Perfect Friday (1970), Red Sun (1971), The Sensuous Nurse (1975), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), The Fifth Musketeer (1979), Clash of the Titans (1981), and Peter the Great (1986). Ursula Andress, the third of six children, was born on 19 March 1936 in Ostermundigen, Canton of Bern, to a Swiss mother, Anna, and Rolf Andress, a German diplomat. Her father was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons and her grandfather, a garden designer, became her guardian. She has a brother, Heinz, and four sisters, Erika, Charlotte, Gisela, and Kàtey. Andress went to school in Bern until she was 16 and learned several languages, including English, French, German, and Italian. She studied art in Paris for a year, then went to Rome, where she worked various jobs including being a children's nanny. Andress was at a party when she met a film producer who offered her a screen test for a role in an Italian film. She was successful and was cast in walk-on parts in An American in Rome (1954) (starring Alberto Sordi), Sins of Casanova (1955) (starring later Bond ally Gabriele Ferzetti), and La catena dell'odio (1955). She was seen by a Hollywood executive who persuaded her to try her luck in Hollywood. Andress arrived in Hollywood in late 1955. That spring she was signed to a seven-year contract with Paramount Pictures, starting at $287 a week. The contract brought no acting roles, owing to her reluctance to learn English. "I spent most of my time watching old Marlene Dietrich movies", she said. Andress received some publicity for dating James Dean shortly before the actor's death. She bought herself out of her contract and in 1956 signed with Columbia Pictures. She made no films for them either. She stayed in Hollywood when she married John Derek in 1957. In 1959, it was announced she and Derek would star in a film, High Variety, but no film resulted. Source: Article "Ursula Andress" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Ares Gate: La fabbrica delle illusioni
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Rat Pack
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Famous T&A 2
Movie · as Susan Stevenson (archive footage) (uncredited)
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
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Hollywood-Diven von ihrer erotischen Seite
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Bob Hope: Entertaining the Troops
Movie · as Self
Belmondo by Belmondo
Movie · as Self (uncredited)
The Importance of Being Uncomfortable: Gualtiero Jacopetti
Movie · as Self
Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 1
Movie · as Self
Masterpiece or Forgery? The Story of Elmyr De Hory
Movie · as Self
Marcello, una vita dolce
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
St. Francis Birds Tour
Movie · as Madonna
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Movie · as Self
G&G - Gesichter und Geschichten
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Best of So Graham Norton
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Movie · as Self
The Cremaster Cycle
Movie · as Queen of Chain ('Cremaster 5')
Bond Girls Are Forever
Movie · as Herself
V Graham Norton
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Aeschbacher
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Terence Young: Bond Vivant
Movie · as Self
Inside 'Dr. No'
Movie · as Self
Harry Saltzman: Showman
Movie · as Self
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
Movie · as Self
Beckmann
TV · as Self · 1 ep
So Graham Norton
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Cremaster 5
Movie · as Queen of Chain
Almost True: The Noble Art of Forgery
Movie · as Self
E! True Hollywood Story
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Willemsens Woche
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Cave of the Golden Rose 4
Movie · as Xellesia
The World of Hammer
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 3 eps
The Cave of the Golden Rose 3
Movie · as Xellesia
The Cave of the Golden Rose
TV · as Xellesia · 4 eps
Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders
Movie · as Betty Starr
Hollywood on Horses
Movie · as Self
Broken Silence
Movie · as Agnes
Big Man
TV · as Susy Kaminski · 1 ep
Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Sacrée soirée
TV · as Self · 2 eps
Peter the Great
TV · as Athalie · 4 eps
Wedden, dat..?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Movie · as Marie-Antoinette
Party in Rio
Movie · as Self
James Bond: The First 21 Years
Movie · as Self
Manimal
TV · as Karen Jade · 1 ep
Famous T & A
Movie · as Susan Stevenson (archive footage)
Red Bells Part I: Mexico in Flames
Movie · as Mabel Dodge
Electric Blue 007
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Menschen
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Clash of the Titans
Movie · as Aphrodite
Reporters
Movie · as Self
Falcon Crest
TV · as Madame Malec · 3 eps
Wetten, dass..?
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Fifth Musketeer
Movie · as Louise de La Vallière
Tigers in Lipstick
Movie · as The Stroller / The Widow
Slave of the Cannibal God
Movie · as Susan Stevenson
Double Murder
Movie · as Princess Anna Dell'Orso
The Love Boat
TV · as Carole Stanton · 2 eps
The Loves and Times of Scaramouche
Movie · as Josephine De Beauharnais
Safari Express
Movie · as Miriam
Love in 4 Easy Lessons
Movie · as Marina (segment "La visita")
The Sensuous Nurse
Movie · as Anna
Africa Express
Movie · as Madeleine Cooper
Loaded Guns
Movie · as Nora Green
Two hearts, a Chapel
Movie · as Ursula Andress (uncredited)
Numéro un
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Stateline Motel
Movie · as Michelle Nolton
Red Sun
Movie · as Cristina
The Bob Hope Christmas Special
Movie · as Self
Perfect Friday
Movie · as Lady Britt Dorset
The Southern Star
Movie · as Erica Kramer
The Dick Cavett Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep
Anyone Can Play
Movie · as Norma
Casino Royale
Movie · as Vesper Lynd
The Blue Max
Movie · as Countess Kaeti von Klugermann
Once Before I Die
Movie · as Alex
What's New Pussycat?
Movie · as Rita
Up to His Ears
Movie · as Alexandrine Pinardel
She
Movie · as Ayesha
The 10th Victim
Movie · as Caroline Meredith
Nightmare in the Sun
Movie · as Marsha Wilson
The Incredible World of James Bond
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
4 for Texas
Movie · as Maxine Richter
Fun in Acapulco
Movie · as Marguerita Dauphin
Dr. No
Movie · as Honey Ryder
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
TV · as Self · 1 ep
The Merv Griffin Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Thriller
TV · as Luana · 1 ep
Cinépanorama
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Sins of Casanova
Movie · as viaggiatrice in carrozza
An American in Rome
Movie · as Astrid Sjöström
The Bob Hope Show
TV · as Self · 2 eps
What's My Line?
TV · as Self · 1 ep