Born 1944 in Budapest, Hungarian-British actress Catherine Schell made her film debut as the title character in the little-known German-language film Lana, Queen of the Amazons (1964). She appeared as Bond girl Nancy in the James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), with George Lazenby in the lead. Around the same time, she appeared in Hammer Films science-fiction thriller Moon Zero Two (also 1969) cast in the role of Clementine Taplin.
Schell appeared opposite Peter Sellers in the comedy The Return of the Pink Panther (1975) as Lady Claudine Lytton. She appeared with Sellers again in The Prisoner of Zenda (1979), one of his last films.
Schell spent much of her career in British television, appearing in more than 47 series spanning a period of nearly 30 years. She appeared in the science-fiction series Space: 1999 as a robotic servant (“Guardian of Piri”, 1975), and returned to the series in its second season as the regular character Maya, a shape-shifting “metamorph” from the planet Psychon. She also appeared in another British science-fiction series, as Countess Scarlioni in the Doctor Who serial City of Death (1979).
Take a look at these fabulous photos to see portraits of young Catherine Schell in the 1960s and 1970s.
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