Antoinette Bower
Antoinette Bower (born September 30, 1932) is a retired British film, television and stage actress, with joint American citizenship, whose career lasted nearly four decades.
Antoinette Bower | |
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Bower and Raymond Massey as guest stars on Adventures in Paradise, 1961 | |
| Born | September 30, 1932 |
| Years active | 1954–1992 |
| Spouse(s) | James Francis Gill (divorced)[1] |
Early years
She was born in Baden-Baden of British nationality, later also becoming an American citizen.[2]
Career
Bower has many television guest roles to her credit – between 1958 and 1987, she amassed over ninety appearances on such programs as Ben Casey, The Fugitive, Combat!, The Invaders, Mannix, Mission: Impossible (in 4 episodes), Perry Mason, The Six Million Dollar Man, Kojak, Star Trek, Hogan's Heroes (in 3 different roles), Columbo (as a woman murdered by her husband), The Twilight Zone and Murder, She Wrote.
In the 1970s and 1980s she appeared in the movies A Death of Innocence (1971), Die Sister, Die! (1972, released in 1978), Prom Night (1980), The Cowboy and the Ballerina (1984), The Evil That Men Do (1984), and Club Paradise (1986).
She co-starred with Christopher Plummer and Jean Simmons in the TV mini-series The Thorn Birds (1983), and, from 1989 to 1992, was a regular on the Canadian TV series Neon Rider.
Personal life
Bower was married to James Francis Gill.[3]
Selected TV and filmography
TV Series - Guest Appearances
- The Unforeseen (episode: "The Key", 1958)
- Hudson's Bay (episodes: "Old Dog", "Civilization", "The Accounting" and "The Duel", 1959)
- Have Gun – Will Travel (episode: "The Piano", 1961)
- Wagon Train (episode: "The Bruce Saybrook Story", 1961)
- Thriller (episodes: "The Return of Andrew Bentley" & "Waxworks", 1961)
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (episodes: "A Woman's Help", 1961; "The Silk Petticoat", 1962)
- Combat! (episode: "The Battle of the Roses", 1963)
- The Twilight Zone (episode: "Probe 7, Over and Out", 1963)
- Perry Mason (episodes: "The Case of the Ancient Romeo", 1962; "The Case of the Bluffing Blast", 1963)
- Twelve O'Clock High (episodes: "The Suspected", 1964; "Faith Hope and Sergeant Aronson", 1965; “Twenty-Fifth Mission”, 1966)
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (episode: "The Bow-Wow Affair", 1965)
- The Wild Wild West (episode: "The Night of Sudden Death", 1965)
- Ben Casey (episodes: "Journeys End in Lovers Meeting", 1965; "War of Nerves", 1965; "No More, Cried The Rooster - There Will Be Truth", 1965)
- The Fugitive (episodes: "Coralee", 1966; "The Breaking of the Habit" and "The Shattered Silence", 1967)
- Star Trek (episode: "Catspaw"; 1967)
- The Invaders (episode: "Condition Red", 1967)
- The F.B.I. (episodes: "Flight Plan", 1967; "Blueprint for Betrayal", 1967; "The Traitor", 1970; "The Exchange", 1973)
- Mission: Impossible (episodes: "The Slave", 1967; "Phantoms", 1970; "The Party", 1971)
- Ironside (episode: "Tagged for Murder", 1967; "Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?", 1972)
- Hogan's Heroes (episodes: "Carter Turns Traitor", 1967; "Duel of Honor", 1968; "Is There a Traitor in the House?", 1969)
- The Big Valley (episode: "Deathtown", 1968)
- Bonanza (episode: "Little Girl Lost", 1968)
- Mannix (episodes: "Deadfall: Part 1" and "Deadfall: Part 2", 1968; "Shadow of a Man", 1969)
- Hawaii Five-O (episode: "Six Kilos", 1969)
- Get Smart (episode: "Valerie of the Dolls", 1969)
- The Whiteoaks of Jalna (4 episodes, 1972)
- Columbo (episode: "Negative Reaction", 1974)
- The Six Million Dollar Man (episode: "A Bionic Christmas Carol", 1976)
- Kojak (episode: "Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton", 1978)
- Hart to Hart (episode: "On a Bed of Harts", 1982)
- Bring 'Em Back Alive (episode: "The Pied Piper", 1982)
- The Thorn Birds (2 episodes, 1983)
- Murder, She Wrote (episode: "If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly", 1987)
TV Series - Regular Appearances
- Neon Rider (42 episodes, 1989–92)
TV Movie Appearances
- The Scorpio Letters (1967)
- The Sunshine Patriot (1968)
- See The Man Run (1971)
- A Death of Innocence (1971)
- First, You Cry (1978)
- The Cowboy and the Ballerina (1984)
Film Appearances
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 - uncredited)
- The Mephisto Waltz (1971 - uncredited)
- Superbeast (1972)
- Die Sister, Die! (1972 - not released until 1978))
- Prom Night (1980)
- Blood Song (1982)
- Time Walker (1982)
- The Evil That Men Do (1984)
- Club Paradise (1986)
References
- Profile, NNDb.com; accessed July 23, 2017.
- Profile, IMDb.com; accessed September 26, 2017.
- Roessing, Walter (November 2, 1968). "Who IS That Girl, Anyway?". The Ottawa Journal. Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. p. 81.