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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
Fri Nov 10, 2017, 03:35 PM Nov 2017

Karin Dor, actress who played Bond assassin eaten by piranhas, dies at 79

My favorite Sean Connery "Bond" film.



Source: Washington Post Obit





Karin Dor, a titian-haired German actress who played an assassin sent by James Bond’s nemesis Blofeld to kill the British agent in 1967’s “You Only Live Twice,” died Nov. 6 in Munich. She was 79.

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Established as a bankable star in Germany, she ventured into international productions of widely ranging quality, including “The Face of Fu Manchu” (1965) starring Christopher Lee and “You Only Live Twice” with Sean Connery as Bond. As would-be Bond assassin Helga Brandt, she ended up being fed to piranhas by the cat-stroking Blofeld (Donald Pleasence).

Ms. Dor met a similarly unpleasant fate as an anti-Castro Cuban resistance leader in Alfred Hitchcock’s espionage thriller “Topaz” (1969), based on a Leon Uris novel about a Russian spy ring that infiltrates the French government.

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One of the best Bond songs ever!

Nancy Sinatra.

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Karin Dor, actress who played Bond assassin eaten by piranhas, dies at 79 (Original Post) yallerdawg Nov 2017 OP
I mentally saw a comma after assassin flying rabbit Nov 2017 #1
Sometimes major news publications have the most bizarre headlines. yallerdawg Nov 2017 #2
Kill Bond pressbox69 Nov 2017 #3

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
2. Sometimes major news publications have the most bizarre headlines.
Wed Nov 15, 2017, 08:29 AM
Nov 2017
Jeopardy question: "Bond actress eaten by piranhas."

Answer: "Wut?"

pressbox69

(2,252 posts)
3. Kill Bond
Sun Nov 19, 2017, 04:29 AM
Nov 2017

Now! Did the Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sadism with Chris Lee and Lex Barker and a ton of Edgar Wallace mysteries.

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