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- Stunningly beautiful and charismatic blonde Barbara Bouchet was born Barbel Goutscherola on August 15th, 1943 in Liberec, Czechoslovakia, known as Reichenberg, during the German occupation. Her father, Fritz, was a war photographer.
Her family was forced to leave the country when Barbara was a little girl and her name was changed to Barbara Gutscher. They got separated, but ended up getting together again. They migrated in December 1956 and settled in San Francisco, California, where Barbara attended the prestigious Galileo High School, a polytechnic school with commercial and industrial branches. Bouchet speaks English, German and Italian with equal fluency. In an interview to Shock Cinema (Number 44), Barbara Bouchet says her name had been changed again to Bouchet at the start of her career, because it sounded like her German name.
Barbara was inspired to be a screen actress after seeing the work of German actress Christine Kaufmann in Der schweigende Engel (1954) ("The Silent Angel").
In 1959, her father submitted a photo of her to the "Miss Gidget" beauty contest, and she won. The contest was held by the local television station KPIX-TV, based on the character of what has been considered the first "beach party movie" in Hollywood history, Gidget (1959). The prize included a date with James Darren the famous star of that movie, and a screen test. The screen test never materialized.
Barbara was featured as a dancer on the teen-targeted rock'n'roll TV show, The KPIX Dance Party, from 1959 to 1962.
Bouchet began a career of teen model that led to her extensive magazine cover model (35 covers). In October 1983, at age 40, Bouchet did a nude pictorial for the Italian edition of "Penthouse" magazine.
Barbara acted in TV commercials. She made her film debut with an uncredited bit part in the comedy What a Way to Go! (1964). Bouchet soon became known for openly flaunting her spectacularly curvaceous figure in several pictures: clad in alluring silk harem robes in John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965), cavorting nude on the beaches of Pearl Harbor in the World War II epic In Harm's Way (1965), and wearing a bikini for the bulk of her screen time in Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966). She also portrayed "Ursula" in Bob Fosse's outstanding musical Sweet Charity (1969), made for a nicely sultry "Miss Moneypenny" in the tongue-in-cheek 007 outing Casino Royale (1967), and had guest spots on such TV series as The Virginian (1962), Star Trek (1966), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964), and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964).
In 1970, fed-up with being typecast as a mindless sexpot in Hollywood fare, she moved to Italy. She soon became one of Italy's top actresses, carving out a fruitful niche for herself in sex comedies, giallo murder mysteries and gritty crime thrillers. Among her most memorable roles in these Italian features are the brazen spoiled rich lady "Patrizia" in Lucio Fulci's disturbing Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) ("Don't Torture A Duckling"), prostitute "Francine" in The French Sex Murders (1972) ("The French Sex Murders"), modeling agency choreographer "Kitty" in The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972) ("Red Queen Kills 7 Times"), saucy love interest "Scilla" in the splendidly sleazy The Mean Machine (1973), and enticing stripper "Anny" in Death Rage (1976) ("Death Rage"). Bouchet had an unforgettably steamy lesbian love scene with Rosalba Neri in Amuck! (1972) ("Amuck"). Barbara Bouchet appeared alongside fellow Bond girls Barbara Bach and Claudine Auger in Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971) ("The Black Belly of the Tarantula"). Barbara Bouchet continues to act in both films and TV shows, alike, made in Italy. Barbara popped up in a small role (as the wife of giallo star David Hemmings) in Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York (2002).
Barbara married producer Luigi Borghese in 1976. They had two sons: Alessandro Borgese (b. 1974), a chef hosting a show on the Italian cable TV; and Massimiliano Borghese (b. 1989), a bartender. During the shooting of Diamond Connection (1984) in Istanbul, there was mention of a separation in the Turkish language "New World Video & Magazine" of September 1984, but the divorce happened much later.
In 1985, Bouchet started her own production company, opened her own health club in Rome, and launched her own line of fitness books and videos.
[based on woodyanders] - Harry Riebauer was born on 4 July 1921 in Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for The Great Escape (1963), Der Zinker (1959) and The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle (1963). He died on 8 November 1999 in Berlin, Germany.
- Helmut Oeser was born on 17 May 1929 in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. He is an actor, known for Der große Zapfenstreich (1952), Rotmord (1969) and Abschied vier Uhr früh (1967).
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- Director
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Vlasta Burian was born on 9 April 1891 in Reichenberg, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. He was an actor and director, known for The Inspector General (1933), Funebrák (1932) and Ulice zpívá (1939). He was married to Nina Cervenková-Burianová. He died on 31 January 1962 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Actor
- Director
Bruno Hübner was born on 26 August 1899 in Langenbruck, Reichenberg, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Dlouhý Most, Czech Republic]. He was an actor and director, known for Flying Classroom (1954), Lulu (1980) and Die Galerie der großen Detektive (1954). He died on 22 December 1983 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.- Director
- Writer
- Actor
Uwe Brandner was born on 23 May 1941 in Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for 50/50 (1977), I Love You, I Kill You (1971) and Blinker (1969). He was married to Karin Thome. He died on 30 July 2018 in Freising, Bavaria, Germany.- Astrid Polak was born on 8 December 1935 in Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), The Silent Forest (2022) and Vera (2019).
- Otfried Preußler was born on 20 October 1923 in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Krabat (2008), Die dumme Augustine (1993) and Kinderstunde (1951). He was married to Anneliese Kind. He died on 18 February 2013 in Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany.
- Jirí Klem was born on 18 March 1944 in Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. He is an actor, known for Sokolovo (1975), Gottwald (1986) and Temné slunce (1980).
- Rolf Lansky was born on 9 March 1929 in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia. He is an actor, known for Beaumarchais (1969) and Vorsicht, Falle! - Nepper, Schlepper, Bauernfänger (1964).
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- Actor
- Music Department
Edmund Nick was born on 22 September 1891 in Reichenberg, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He was a composer and actor, known for Das Hofkonzert (1936), La chanson du souvenir (1937) and Die lustigen Vagabunden (1940). He died on 11 April 1974 in Geretsried, Bavaria, Germany.- Writer
- Director
- Additional Crew
Günther Rücker was born on 2 February 1924 in Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. He was a writer and director, known for Die Verlobte (1980), Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet (1979) and The Best Years (1965). He was married to Vera Oelschlegel. He died on 24 February 2008 in Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany.- Director
- Writer
Manfred Miller was born on 11 April 1943 in Reichenberg, Bohemia, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Sympathy for the Devil (1972) and Beat-Club (1965). He died on 4 June 2021 in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Harald Kreutzberg was born on 11 December 1902 in Reichenberg, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Labyrinth (1959), Paracelsus (1943) and The Nutcracker (1964). He died on 25 April 1968 in Gemmlingen nr. Bern, Switzerland.
- Ernst Steiner was born on 23 April 1928 in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia. He was an actor, known for Archiv des Todes (1980), Blonder Tango (1986) and Hannes Scharf (1967). He was married to Hannelore Steiner-Freudenberger. He died on 30 January 2004 in Berlin, Germany.
- Gerold Tandler was born on 12 August 1936 in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia [now Liberec, Czech Republic].
- Uwe-Karsten Heye was born on 31 October 1940 in Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. He is a writer, known for Shades of Happiness (2011), Kölner Treff (1976) and Durch die Nacht mit... (2002).
- Roland Schacht was born on 13 February 1888 in Reichenberg, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He was a writer, known for Die blonde Carmen (1935), Verdacht auf Ursula (1939) and Ein Windstoß (1942). He died on 22 September 1961 in Berlin, Germany.
- He was born in Reichenberg, today Liberec, at that time german Sudetenland, that is the northern part of former Chekoslovakia. He and his little sister Susanne lost their mother when he was 4 and his sister 2. In world war II he served as a marine where he lived 3 attacks by planes which he survived only by wonder. After the war he and a group of friends founded the Franconian Theatre near Coburg, Northbavaria, in an old cold castle. They were paid with wood and coal and things to eat. There he met his first wife Edith, a violinist. His daughter Nora was born in 1951 and his son Uwe in 1954. For 10 years he was member of the Schauspielhaus in Zurich which he left with Peter Stein and a group of colleagues 1964. They founded the revolutionary Schaubühne in West-Berlin. 1974 he went to Switzerland with his swiss wife "Toni" and worked as a freelancer for the rest of his life. He died at the early age of 64 from cancer. Still on the day of his death he was on stage in a main part, seated, because he was not able to stand. He was a friendly, tolerant, caring and courageous person. He could have been a famous star if he had wished so.
- Winnie Jakob was born on 17 May 1927 in Reichenberg, Czechoslovakia. She died on 26 December 2012 in Vienna, Austria.
- Additional Crew
Suse Böhm was born in 1920 in Reichenberg. She is known for Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge (1955) and Kinderstunde (1951). She died in 1986 in München, Bayern, Germany.- Ludvík Frejka was born on 15 January 1904 in Reichenberg, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. He died on 3 December 1952 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Markus Lüpertz was born on 25 April 1941 in Reichenberg, Sudetenland, Germany [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. He is an actor, known for A New Spirit in Painting: 6 Painters of the 1980's (1984), Der Photograph (2006) and Ich. Immendorff (2008).