Linda Harrison(I)

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A native of Berlin, Maryland, Linda Harrison was Miss Berlin at 16, then a model in New York's Garment Center. Homesickness brought her back to Maryland, where she entered and won the state beauty pageant. During the finals in the Miss International contest (held in Long Beach, California), she was "spotted" by talent scout Mike Medavoy and presented at 20th Century-Fox. Throughout her acting years at Fox, and amidst movie roles in Planet of the Apes (1968), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and others, she dated studio boss Richard D. Zanuck and married him in 1968. They were divorced in 1978, but she's appeared in three of his movies since then.

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Beneath the Planet of the Apes

6.0

Nova

1970

Cocoon

6.7

Susan

1985

Planet of the Apes

8.0

Nova

1968

Charlton Heston, Linda Blair, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Myrna Loy, Sid Caesar, Susan Clark, Helen Reddy, Gloria Swanson, Roy Thinnes, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. in Airport 1975 (1974)

Airport 1975

5.7

Winnie(as Augusta Summerland)

1974

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Actress

Midnight Massacre
6.9
- Quinia Brutus
- 2023
Planet of the Apes
5.7
- Woman in Cart
- 2001
Wild Bill
5.8
- Madam
- 1995
Cocoon: The Return
5.4
- Susan
- 1988
Cocoon
6.7
- Susan
- 1985
Barnaby Jones
6.9
TV Series
- Jan Redbow
- Dori Calder (as Augusta Summerland)
- 1975–1977
Switch
7.1
TV Series
- Jill Martin (as Augusta Summerland)
- 1976–1977
Airport 1975
5.7
- Winnie (as Augusta Summerland)
- 1974
Bracken's World
6.8
TV Series
- Paulette Douglas
- 1969–1970
Beneath the Planet of the Apes
6.0
- Nova
- 1970
Planet of the Apes
8.0
- Nova
- 1968
Wonder Woman: Who's Afraid of Diana Prince?
3.3
TV Short
- Wonder Woman's Reflection (uncredited)
- 1967
A Guide for the Married Man
6.6
- Miss Stardust
- 1967
Men Against Evil
TV Movie
- Biker Chick (uncredited)
- 1966
Way... Way Out
5.3
- Peggy
- 1966

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Beneath the Planet of the Apes

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Alternative name
- Augusta Summerland
Height
- 5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
Born
- July 26, 1945
- Berlin, Maryland, USA
Spouse
- Richard D. ZanuckOctober 26, 1969 - January 23, 1978 (divorced, 2 children)
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Trivia
She was to be the sheriff's (Roy Scheider) wife in Jaws (1975), which her husband Richard D. Zanuck was producing. However, Universal chief Sid Sheinberg wanted his own wife, Lorraine Gary, to have the part. Since Sheinberg was Zanuck's boss, Gary got it.

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[on her character "Nova" in Planet of the Apes (1968)] I felt very intuitive that my particular personality and nature were like Nova. Automatically, I'd say that's about 80% of the part. The director, the producer and the writer talked with me about her, and they described her as "sub-human." We hadn't really had an actress play "sub-human" before. Nova's not like Raquel Welch's character in One Million Years B.C. (1966). She was more primitive because of the apes' suppression. We played it by ear and experimented. It was really a moment-to-moment thing.