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Born Kätherose Derr in Wiesbaden, Karin Dor studied acting and ballet at school and began in films as an extra. The attractive redhead made an indelible impression on Austrian director Harald Reinl (who became her first husband in 1954) and this paved the way to higher profile roles. Her first significant featured appearance was in Reinl's melodrama Der schweigende Engel (1954). Karin subsequently shared top billing in a classroom drama about wayward matriculation students, Ihre große Prüfung (1954). During the initial segment of her career she played nice girls, mainly wide-eyed ingénues, innocent victims and assorted naive juveniles in war and period dramas (As Long as You Live (1955)), Heimatfilms (Almenrausch und Edelweiß (1957)) and operettas (The White Horse Inn (1960)).
By 1960, a more glamorous, lithe and sensual Karin had graduated to juicer roles as heroines in Edgar Wallace potboilers (beginning with Der grüne Bogenschütze (1961)) and a series of Karl May European westerns, invariably directed by Reinl and co-starring Tarzan actor Lex Barker (a combination which proved equally successful for other crime/sci-fi franchises, including The Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)). Many of these pictures enjoyed only limited release and were rarely exhibited outside Germany.
Karin succeeded at last to break her stereotyping by playing a pathological serial killer wielding a cutthroat razor in another Wallace/Reinl outing, Room 13 (1964), and - for a total change of pace -- essayed Brunhilde in a two-part filming of the epic 'Die Nibelungen' (also directed by Reinl). With her international appeal now widening, she appeared in The Face of Fu Manchu (1965), a British-West German co-production, as a scientist's daughter menaced by the titular villain. To follow was arguably her best-known international role as an early 'Bond girl', Helga Brandt (alias Number Eleven), a SPECTRE operative whose failure to eliminate J.B. results in her being dropped into a piranha-infested pool by super villain Blofeld (Donald Pleasence) in You Only Live Twice (1967). She was then engaged by Alfred Hitchcock for the part of Cuban resistance leader Juanita de Cordoba in Topaz (1969) in which her character came to a similarly sticky end. Karin's career never quite recovered from this director's rare box-office aberration. British Times reviewer and Hitchcock specialist John Russell Taylor described the picture as "generally flat, undistinguished, and lacking in any sign of positive interest or involvement on his (Hitchcock's) part". In the wake of Topaz, Karin's screen appearances became infrequent, except for a couple of guest spots on American crime shows, followed by an of unsuccessful feature film comeback attempt in the incongruous thriller Warhead (1977). She was latterly seen on German television in several episodes of Rosamunde Pilcher (1993). Karin's third husband was actor and stuntman George Robotham who predeceased her in 2007.- Scott Fredericks was born in 1943 in Sligo, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Triangle (1981), Charters & Caldicott (1985) and Doctor Who (1963). He was married to Mary. He died on 6 November 2017 in Sligo University Hospital, Sligo, County Sligo, Republic of Ireland.
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Bianca Red Arrow was born on 30 June 1998 in Matthews, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Cross Wars (2017), Mr and Mrs Adams' Lovely Bed & Breakfast (2013) and Vice Principals (2016). She died on 6 November 2017 in Redondo Beach, California, USA.- Steve Elmore was born on 12 July 1933 in Niangua, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for All That Jazz (1979), The Equalizer (1985) and How to Survive a Marriage (1974). He was married to Carolyn Marcell Elmore. He died on 6 November 2017 in Boynton Beach, Florida, USA.
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Richard Gordon was a test pilot in the U.S. Navy. He was passed by for the 1962 astronaut selection, but was accepted for the 1963 selection.
Flew in space the first time as the Pilot of Gemini XI in September of 1966, with Pete Conrad as the Command Pilot. Gordon made two space walks, while he and Conrad set an altitude record of 850 miles during the course of the three day mission.
Flew as the Command Module Pilot of Apollo 12, the second lunar landing mission, in November of 1969. His crewmates were Commander Pete Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean. Gordon orbited the moon at 60 miles altitude, while Conrad and Bean landed and explored the Ocean of Storms.
Was the back-up commander of Apollo 15, in 1971. He was scheduled to land on the moon himself as the Commander of Apollo 18. However, Apollo 18 was cancelled due to NASA budget cuts. Gordon retired from both NASA and the Navy in 1972.- Writer
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William Weintraub was born on 19 February 1926 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was a writer and producer, known for The Rise and Fall of English Montreal (1993), A Matter of Fat (1970) and Why Rock the Boat? (1974). He was married to Magdalena Landau and Bernice Grafstein. He died on 6 November 2017 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.- Marek Frackowiak was born on 16 August 1950 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. He was an actor, known for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015), Pierwsza milosc (2004) and True Law (2012). He was married to Ewa Zlotowska. He died on 6 November 2017 in Poland.
- Daniel Milgram was born on 17 April 1942 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Femme Fatale (2002), Kiss of the Dragon (2001) and A Witch's Way of Love (1997). He died on 6 November 2017 in Paris, France.
- Joe Fortunato was born on 28 March 1930 in Mingo Junction, Ohio, USA. He died on 6 November 2017 in Natchez, Mississippi, USA.
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Leon Bleiberg was born on 9 June 1932 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for Day of the Nightmare (1965), The Gun Hawk (1963) and Terrified (1962). He died on 6 November 2017 in Newbury Park, California, USA.- Gérard Bourgadier was born on 28 January 1934 in Poitiers, Vienne, France. He died on 6 November 2017 in Paris, France.
- Franziska Laws was born on 8 October 1987 in Germany. She was married to Christian Reppe. She died on 6 November 2017 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
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Daniele Demma was born on 22 August 1957 in Cosenza, Calabria, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Arriva Cristina (1988), Cristina (1989) and Huntik: Secrets and Seekers (2009). He died on 6 November 2017 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.- Ina Denbigh was a keen amateur actress and a mainstay of a dramatic society in Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England before the group was wound up in late 1990s. She was a dependable character player, much sought after for smaller roles. On the 6th of November 2019, she died peacefully at her home in Pudsey, Leeds West Yorkshire, England.