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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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Changed the whole concept of the subject line for me.
Jeopardy question: "Bond actress eaten by piranhas."
Answer: "Wut?"
Answer: "Wut?"
