Karin Dor

Actress best known as failed assassin in You Only Live Twice

Karin Dor, actress. Born: 22 February, 1938 in Wiesbaden, Germany. Died: 6 November, 2017, in Munich, Germany aged 79

German actress karin Dor, who played an assassin sent by James Bond’s nemesis Blofeld to kill the British agent in 1967’s You Only Live Twice, has died at the age of 79.

German news agency dpa, citing a Munich theatre where Dor had worked, reported that she died in a care home.

Dor played in dozens of films, TV productions and theare plays during a career that began in her German homeland when she was 17.

Aside from would-be Bond assassin Helga Brandt – who ended up being fed to piranhas – Dor also played in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1969 thriller Topaz, and the United Sates crime series Ironside and The FBI.

Dor was married three times, most recently to American stuntman and actor George Robotham, who died in 2007.