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Bibi Besch(1942-1996)

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Bibi Besch in Dynasty (1981)
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My Family (1995)
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Bibi Besch was born in Vienna, Austria, to race car driver Gotfrid Köchert and actress Gusti Huber. She was a very busy supporting actress who had worked in television for over twenty years before being nominated for an Emmy Award as a supporting actress for Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992) and another in 1993 for a guest appearance on Northern Exposure (1990). A veteran of dozens of television movies from 1976 to 1995, Besch also appeared in several feature films, most notably as Dr. Carol Marcus in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). Other notable feature film roles were in Steel Magnolias (1989), Tremors (1990) and Who's That Girl (1987). Her stage work included the plays "Fame," "The Chinese Prime Minister," "Here Lies Jeremy Troy" and "Once for the Asking." Other television credits include guest roles on popular network shows such as ER (1994) and Murder, She Wrote (1984). Besch's television series and miniseries roles ranged from the soap opera Somerset (1970) to Backstairs at the White House (1979) to The Hamptons (1983). Bibi Besch died of breast cancer at age 54 on September 7, 1996.
BornFebruary 1, 1942
DiedSeptember 7, 1996(54)
BornFebruary 1, 1942
DiedSeptember 7, 1996(54)
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  • Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys

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Bibi Besch in Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983)
Bibi Besch in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Bibi Besch in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Kirstie Alley, Walter Koenig, William Shatner, Bibi Besch, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Merritt Butrick, and Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
William Shatner and Bibi Besch in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Bibi Besch and Merritt Butrick in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Bibi Besch, Ricardo Montalban, Laura Banks, and Nanci Rogers in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Bibi Besch in Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1967)
Bibi Besch in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Bibi Besch, Bobby Burns, Merritt Butrick, Jim Painter, Kevin Rodney Sullivan, and Philip Weyland in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Kirstie Alley, William Shatner, Bibi Besch, and Merritt Butrick in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Bibi Besch, John Forsythe, and Dennis Howard in Dynasty (1981)

Known for

Kirstie Alley, Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, and Ricardo Montalban in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
7.7
  • Carol
  • 1982
Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Daryl Hannah, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, and Olympia Dukakis in Steel Magnolias (1989)
Steel Magnolias
7.3
  • Belle Marmillion
  • 1989
Kevin Bacon, Finn Carter, and Fred Ward in Tremors (1990)
Tremors
7.1
  • Megan - The Doctor's Wife
  • 1990
Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992)
Doing Time on Maple Drive
7.0
TV Movie
  • Lisa Carter
  • 1992

Credits

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  • Black Harvest
    • Abandoned
  • California Myth
  • Heather Locklear, Amy Locane, Daphne Zuniga, Vanessa Williams, Grant Show, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Josie Bissett, Thomas Calabro, Doug Savant, and Andrew Shue in Melrose Place (1992)
    Melrose Place
  • The Jeff Foxworthy Show (1995)
    The Jeff Foxworthy Show
  • George Clooney, Anthony Edwards, Julianna Margulies, Ming-Na Wen, Noah Wyle, Laura Innes, Alex Kingston, Eriq La Salle, Kellie Martin, Paul McCrane, Michael Michele, Erik Palladino, Maura Tierney, and Goran Visnjic in ER (1994)
    ER
  • Jane Seymour, Chad Allen, Joe Lando, and Shawn Toovey in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993)
    Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
  • Rattled (1996)
    Rattled
  • Thomas Haden Church, Debra Messing, Nadia Dajani, and Greg Germann in Ned and Stacey (1995)
    Ned and Stacey
  • Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992)
    Wounded Heart
  • Lori Loughlin in Abandoned and Deceived (1995)
    Abandoned and Deceived
  • My Family (1995)
    My Family
  • Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote (1984)
    Murder, She Wrote
  • Tales from the Crypt (1989)
    Tales from the Crypt
  • Mitzi Kapture and Rob Estes in Silk Stalkings (1991)
    Silk Stalkings
  • Ice-T, Sam Waterston, Mariska Hargitay, Camryn Manheim, Christopher Meloni, Jeffrey Donovan, Mehcad Brooks, Kelli Giddish, and Danielle Moné Truitt in Law & Order (1990)
    Law & Order
  • The Last Shot

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Official Trailer
Trailer 1:38
Official Trailer
The Lonely Lady
Trailer 0:58
The Lonely Lady
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Celebrating 50 Years
Trailer 1:19
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Celebrating 50 Years
My Family
Trailer 2:07
My Family

Personal details

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    • February 1, 1942
    • Vienna, Austria
    • September 7, 1996
    • Los Angeles, California, USA(metastasized breast cancer)
    • 1965 - 1973 (divorced, 1 child)
    • Samantha Mathis
    • Gusti Huber
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    • 1 Interview
    • 1 Article
    • 2 Pictorials

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    Best remembered for her role as Dr. Carol Marcus in the sequel film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).
  • Quotes
    My responsibility to the audience is to be truthful and that can take many different forms; that doesn't mean to be boring. What I think is important is to reveal some aspect of myself and I can do that in a comedy or a serious piece. It's important for me to connect with something inside of me; if I don't do that, I'm ripping myself and the audience off and nobody gets anything out of it. It's to try to get to the heart of the matter, whatever that is, and it doesn't have to be heavy, either.

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