Karin Dor

Biography

Karin Dor was born on 22 February 1936 as Kaetherose Derr in Wiesbaden; already as Gymnasiastin it took to play and ballet instruction and by the directors Rabenalt and Reinl for the film was then discovered: Arthur Maria Rabenalt turned scenes to its film "the last Walzer", there was noticeable to him the small Komparsin rose Dor. He knew that its friend Harald Reinl, which turned two films with child star Christine buyer at the same time in the same city looked for young actresses and recommended Reinl its discovery; Reinl was inspired. In "the being silent angel" (1953) and "rose Resli" (1954) rose Dor played for the first time two smaller roles. Before the second film was turned off, married the 46jaehrige attained a doctorate to attorney and film director Reinl the 18jaehrige girl. The marriage brought the young actress completely rapidly forward, not only with Reinl had it large chances: Rudolf Jugert occupied it as a pupil Elena Clausen into "your large examination" (1954), Hans Grimm as Meike Brauns in "small man - completely large" (1957) and Wolfgang luck as Christa Riek in "about what one does not speak - gynecologist Dr. Brand seizes" (1958). But it was again married man Reinl, which gave it the large chances: It was the gentle naive Christine of Auffenberg in "you lives so long" (1955), and this role subject perfected it in the numerous Edgar Wallace strips and Karl May films Reinls: as if pursued Nora of sanders came it into "the gang of the fright" (1960) Scotland yard to the assistance, into "the Green elbow contactors" (1961) acted like it the Valerie Howett or into "the counterfeiter of London" the Jane Leith Clifton. Among their further Wallace strips rank among other things "the white spider" (1963), "the Wuerger of lock Blackmoor" (1963), "the uncanny monk" (1965) and "hotel of the dead guests" (1965). For the peace she does as Ribanna in "Winnetou II" (1964) without the loved Apachen chieftain and married in the film the white second lieutenant son (Mario Girotti, which late Terence Hill called itself). In the same year it broke out of its role plate, when it played a pathological Moerderin in Reinls "room 13" - a preliminary stage for the daemonische Brunhilde, which acted like it 1966 on the high point of their career in the "Nibelungen". Until the end of the 60's one experienced Karin Dor in German productions like "the queue pit and the pendulum" (1967) and their role of the Baroness Lilian of Brabant or "Winnetou and Shatterhand in the valley of the dead ones" (1968) with the part of the Mabel Kingsley. Finally surprised Karin Dor on international parquet, as it under the direction of Lewis Gibert 1967 in "one lives only twice" (You Only Live Twice) James bond alias Sean Connery in the role of the Helga Brandt with their erotischen charm the secret agent to death to bring is. One saw it than heissbluetige Kubanerin Juanita de Cordoba in Alfred Hitchcocks "Topaz" two years later. In the 70's Karin Dor withdrew itself as far as possible from the film business, took over themselves only sporadically roles for film and television and concentrated on stage commitments among other things in Hamburg, Cologne, Munich and Bad Godesberg. On the canvas one experienced it for example still in the Simmel filming "the answer knows only the wind" (1974), in "Warhead" (1974) and in "woman station" (1976). Only ten years later the actress stood again before the camera and played in "Johann bunch - the king without crown" (1986) the small role of the Jetty; one saw it to 1990 in the TV series "the large liberty" and in the Pilcher filming "the price of the love" (1997) as Daisy. In recent time she was to be seen again in a Pilcher romance: In "call of the past" (2000) she acted like the Emily stick clay/tone. 2004 emerged it then with the role of the Elinor Froedin in the Melodram "Inga Lindstroem - longing after Marielund" again times on the screen. Today Karin Dor lives predominantly by renewed marriage in America. Karin Dor began as gentle, young naive ones and as an innocent victim in German crime films. The linear classification put it down by skillfully psychologisierte roles in the international film and developed to the in demand character star, that engaged taktierende enticing gutters, politically and played even pathological murderer inside.