Karin Dor


Karin Dor was a German actress most famous for her role in the late-1960s as a Bond girl in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice.

Biography

Dor was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. She starred in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice and the Alfred Hitchcock movie Topaz.
She appeared in German movies adapted from the works of Edgar Wallace and Karl May. These two film series were mainly directed by Harald Reinl, her first husband.
In 2008, she was in a Munich stage production, Man liebt nur dreimal. In later years, she performed mainly stage roles but still appeared in some films.
She was married three times: her last marriage was to George Robotham, a U.S. stunt-director, from 1988 until his death in 2007. The couple lived in Los Angeles and Munich. Her previous marriage was to Harald Reinl ; the couple had a child.

Death

Dor died at a nursing home in Munich on 6 November 2017, aged 79.

Selected filmography