biographyFor her performance in You Only Live Twice as deadly Spectre operative Helga Brandt, Dor earned great notices. The film became a blockbuster soon after its release in June 1967, earning more than $111 million worldwide. However, her next high-profile film, Topaz, proved to be a critical and box office disappointment. Aside from these two films for which she is best known, Dor also acted in a surprising number of horror films, including The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967; with Lex Barker and Christopher Lee), Assignment Terror (1970; with Michael Rennie, Craig Hill, and Paul Naschy), and Dark Echoes (1977; with Joel Fabiani and Alex Davion). The latter title was written and directed by Dor's third husband, actor George Robotham. |
the films of karin dorThe Green Archer (1961)The Treasure of the Silver Lake (1962)With frequent costar Lex Barker in the western The Treasure of the Silver Lake. This was the first film adaptation of Karl May's western book seriesThe Invisible Dr. Mabuse (1962)From the German horror/crime drama The Invisible Dr. Mabuse with Lex BarkerThe Face of Fu Manchu (1965)Die Nibelungen, Teil 2: Kriemhilds Rache (1967)With Samson Burke in the German adventure Die Nibelungen, Teil 2: Kriemhilds RacheYou Only Live Twice (1967)From the fifth Bond film You Only Live Twice. LEFT: With Mie Hama, Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, and Lois Maxwell. RIGHT: With Donald Pleasence and Mie HamaThe Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)LEFT and CENTER: Dor stars as Baroness Lilian von Brabant in the German horror flick The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism. RIGHT: With Lex Barker. This film is a reworking of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the PendulumTopaz (1969)LEFT: From the Hitchcock thriller Topaz with Frederick Stafford. RIGHT: With director Alfred Hitchcock and John Vernonlater yearsAt the height of her career, Karin Dor divorced Reinl in 1968 and moved on to a brief marriage to Gunther Schmucker in 1972. Some of Dor's 1970's films include the crime drama Only the Wind Knows the Answer (1974; with Marthe Keller and Anton Diffring), the drama Women in Hospital (1977; with Stephen Boyd, Horst Buchholz, and Barbara Valentin), and the actioner Warhead (1977; with David Janssen, Christopher Stone, and Joan Freeman). In the early 1980s, Dor began working more and more in stage productions and only rarely in film and television. In 1988, she married actor and stuntman George Robotham, and they divided their time between Germany and southern California until Robotham's death on February 1, 2007 at age 86. She came out of retirement for one last film, Die abhandene Welt. Seeminging healthy, a 2016 fall saw her health spiral downward, and she passed away in a nursing home on November 6, 2017, at age 79. She was survived by a son, actor Andreas Renell, from her first marriage. |
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