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Ann Turkel is an American actress and former model, known for her collaborations with, and marriage to, actor Richard Harris.

Early life

Richard Harris and Ann Turkel in 1977

Born into a Jewish middle-class family and raised in Manhattan, Turkel had, by age 16, studied with both Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and Philip Burton at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.[1][a]

Career

In the late 1960s, she was photographed for American Vogue. Patrick Lichfield captured images of her on location in the United Kingdom, the Bahamas, and Italy during the early 1970s, and included them in his 1981 book The Most Beautiful Women.[4]

After a brief appearance in the film Paper Lion (1968), her first major role was in the 1974 film, 99 and 44/100% Dead starring her future husband Richard Harris, and they acted together in The Cassandra Crossing (1976), Golden Rendezvous (1977) and Ravagers (1979).

She portrayed comic strip heroine Modesty Blaise in a 1982 TV pilot.

Her other movie roles included Portrait of a Hitman (1979), with Jack Palance, and Humanoids from the Deep (1980), Deep Space (1988) and The Fear (1995). She also played the role of modeling agent and immortal Kristen in "Chivalry", a season four episode of Highlander: The Series.

Personal life

Turkel and Harris married in 1974 in Beverly Hills.[5] They were divorced in 1982. Despite their divorce, she and Harris remained good friends.[6][7]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role
1968 Paper Lion Susan
1974 99 and 44/100% Dead Buffy
1976 The Cassandra Crossing Susan
1977 Golden Rendezvous Susan Beresford
1979 Portrait of a Hitman Cathey
Ravagers Faina
1980 Humanoids from the Deep Dr. Susan Drake
1988 Deep Space Carla Sandbourn
1995 The Fear Leslie
1997 Touch Me Linda
2006 A-List Star in bar
2006 Deja Vu Technician

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1975 Matt Helm Maggie Gantry "Pilot" episode
1978 Greatest Heroes of the Bible Delilah Mini-series episode "Samson & Delilah"
1981 Death Ray 2000 Sabina Dorffman TV movie
1982 Modesty Blaise Modesty Blaise TV movie
Massarati and the Brain Diane : Wilma TV movie
The Fall Guy Shawna Ives / Kitty Ives episode "The Ives Have It"
1982, 1983 Fantasy Island Rowena Haversham,
Leila Proctor		 2 episodes
1983 Matt Houston Maureen Flanders episode "Here's Another Fine Mess"
The Love Boat Stacy Banks episode "Vicki's Dilemma/Discount Romance/
Loser & Still Champ"
1983–1984, 1985 Knight Rider Adrianne Margeaux / Adrianne St. Clair,
Bianca Morgan		 S2/E9: "Soul Survivor" , S2/E18: "Goliath Returns" , S3/E20: "Knight in Retreat"
1984 Masquerade unnamed episode "Caribbean Holiday"
The New Mike Hammer Gail Storrs-Rainey episode "Catfight"
1985 Riptide Denise McKean episode "Baxter and Boz"
Street Hawk Melanie Ryan / Katherine Reese episode "Female of the Species"
Hollywood Beat Lita "Pilot" episode
1986 Night Court Judge Eve Gardner episode "Contempt of Courting"
Scarecrow and Mrs. King Pam Jentry episode "Three Little Spies"
Murder, She Wrote Barbara Bennington episode "Stage Struck"
1987 Worlds Beyond Helen Scott episode "Captain Randolph"
1991 White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd Gloria Swanson TV movie (uncredited)
Silk Stalkings Roxanne Dockweiler aka Roxy The Doxy "Pilot" episode
Chance of a Lifetime Tippi van Norden TV movie
1992 Down the Shore unnamed episode "Waiting for Aldo"
1994 RoboCop: The Series Louise episode "What Money Can't Buy"
1995 Highlander Kristin episode "Chivalry"
1998 The Hunger Woman episode "A River of Night's Dreaming"
1999 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction Mrs. Richerds Anthology series episode "E-Mail II/Blood Donor/Epitaph/Stiches in Time/Soldier"

Notes

  1. ^ Although the cited source, Cliff Goodwin's Richard Harris biography, specifies "the Musical Theater Academy" as one of the two schools attended by Turkel, no such institution appears to have existed at this time, whereas the similarly named American Musical and Dramatic Academy was, in fact, co-founded and—until his retirement—directed by one of the two named teachers, Philip Burton.[2] (Similarly, the other named school, the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, was—aside from one four-year stretch—headed by the other named teacher, Sanford Meisner, for more than half a century.)[3]

References

  1. ^ Goodwin, Cliff (2003). Behaving Badly: Richard Harris. London: Virgin Books. p. 162. ISBN 9781852279578.
  2. ^ Pulsifer, Gary (7 February 1995). "Obituary: Philip Burton". The Guardian. p. T.017. ProQuest 294899457. Philip Burton helped to found the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and served as its president and director.
  3. ^ Flint, Peter B. (February 4, 1997). "Sanford Meisner, a Mentor Who Guided Actors and Directors Toward Truth, Dies at 91". The New York Times. p. 21. ProQuest 430748883. In later years, Mr. Meisner acted occasionally and also won plaudits for directing a 1955 revival of William Saroyan's Time of Your Life, but he concentrated on teaching, as the director of the Neighborhood Playhouse school from 1936 until 1959 and from 1964 through the 1980's.
  4. ^ Lighfield, Patrick (1981). The Most Beautiful Women. London: Elm Tree. p. 54. ISBN 9780241105559.
  5. ^ "People". Star Tribune. Minnesota, Minneapolis. June 8, 1974. p. 3. Retrieved September 25, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Grant, Hank (December 8, 1982). "Rambling Reporter". The Hollywood Reporter. p. 3. ProQuest 2587823561. And though the marriage was a failure, the divorce is proving a big success for Richard Harris and Ann Turkel. She's joined him in London for the West End bow of his "Camelot" and proving that two can live as cheaply as one in the same Savoy Hotel suite.
  7. ^ Gritten, David (August 12, 1990). "RICHARD HARRIS RESURFACES". Los Angeles Times. p. 3. ProQuest 281260811. He now cast off from his life those elements that were hard to handle. Marriage went first: He divorced his second wife, actress Ann Turkel, in 1981. They remain friendly, but their marriage had been no more successful than his first.

External links

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Turkel