Antoinette Bower

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Antoinette Bower
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Bower as guest star on Adventures in Paradise , 1961
Born1932 (age 9192)
Nationality
  • British
  • American
Years active1954–1992
Spouse James Francis Gill

Antoinette Bower (born 1932) [1] is a British-American retired film, television and stage actress, whose career lasted nearly four decades.

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Early years

Bower was born in Baden-Baden to a German mother and an English father. She lived in England, Vienna and Monte Carlo and was educated in England. She moved to Canada in 1953. [2]

Career

Bower worked as a disc jockey at a radio station in Owen Sound, Ontario. [3] She moved to Toronto to pursue acting, appearing in stage productions at the newly opened Crest Theatre, [3] the first in that city to consistently mount Canadian productions rather than touring productions from the US or Britain. [4]

Bower started her television career in Canada in 1958, appearing in the CBC Television made-for-TV movie The Telltale Heart, and in an episode of The Unforeseen .[ citation needed ] She had a recurring role in Hudson's Bay (1959), and appeared in episodes of Heritage in 1960. That same year, she wrote, produced and narrated an hour-long profile of actor Barry Morse and his family for CBC Radio. [5]

Richard Boone and Antoinette Bower in Have Gun - Will Travel in 1961 Richard Boone Antoinette Bower Have Gun Will Travel 1961.JPG
Richard Boone and Antoinette Bower in Have Gun - Will Travel in 1961

While visiting friends in Los Angeles, Bower landed her first role on an American series, appearing in the January 1961 episode "Night Cry", of the series Hong Kong . She continued with steady work on American television, amassing appearances on such programs as Ben Casey , The Fugitive , Combat! , Twelve O'Clock High , The Invaders , Mannix , Mission: Impossible (in 4 episodes), Perry Mason , The Big Valley , The Six Million Dollar Man , Kojak , Star Trek , Hogan's Heroes (in 3 different roles), Cannon , Columbo , Hawaii Five-O , The Twilight Zone and Murder, She Wrote . She appeared in the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).

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).

In 1979, Bower co-starred in four episodes of Mutual Radio Theater . [6]

Antoinette Bower and William Shatner in the second season Star Trek episode Catspaw in 1967 Antoinette Bower William Shatner Star Trek 1967.jpg
Antoinette Bower and William Shatner in the second season Star Trek episode Catspaw in 1967

Bower completed her nearly 40-year acting career where she first started, returning to Canada to join the main cast for the first three seasons (1990–1993) of the series Neon Rider , this time on the CTV Television Network. [7] [8]

Personal life

Reserved when discussing her private life in the press, Bower did state, in a 1968 interview with the Canadian magazine Weekend , that she was married to Texas-born artist James Francis Gill, [3] whom she met when he moved to Los Angeles in 1962. [9]

Selected TV and filmography

TV series - guest appearances

  • The Unforeseen (1958) (Season 1 Episode 12: "The Key")
  • Hudson's Bay (1959)
    • (Season 1 Episode 10: "Old Dog")
    • (Season 1 Episode 12: "Civilization") as Oussitta
    • (Season 1 Episode 24: "The Duel") as Joanna Balfour
    • (Season 1 Episode 30: "The Accounting") as Dorcas Cobb
  • The Tab Hunter Show (1961) (Season 1 Episode 22: "Galatea") as Maggie
  • Have Gun – Will Travel (1961) (Season 5 Episode 9: "The Piano") as Sybil Lansing
  • Wagon Train (1961) (Season 5 Episode 9: "The Bruce Saybrook Story") as Diana Saybrook
  • Thriller (1961-1962)
    • (Season 2 Episode 12: "The Return of Andrew Bentley") (1961) as Sheila Corbett
    • (Season 2 Episode 16: "Waxworks") (1962) as Annette Jacquelin
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1961-1962)
    • (Season 6 Episode 24: "A Woman's Help") (1961) as Miss Greco
    • (Season 7 Episode 13: "The Silk Petticoat") (1962) as Elisa Minden
  • Stoney Burke (1963) (Season 1 Episode 21: "Point of Entry") as Erna Bremen
  • Combat! (1963) (Season 1 Episode 26: "The Battle of the Roses") as Jeanine
  • The Twilight Zone (1963) (Season 5 Episode 9: "Probe 7, Over and Out") as Eve Norda
  • Perry Mason (1962-1963)
    • (Season 5 Episode 28: "The Case of the Ancient Romeo") (1962) as Ellen Carson
    • (Season 6 Episode 14: "The Case of the Bluffing Blast") (1963) as Linda Blake
  • Twelve O'Clock High (1964-1966)
    • (Season 1 Episode 13: "The Suspected") (1964) as Meg Driscoll
    • (Season 1 Episode 19: "Faith Hope and Sergeant Aronson") (1965) as Ivy Wescott
    • (Season 2 Episode 22: "Twenty-Fifth Mission") (1966) as Naomi Rockford
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965) (Season 1 Episode 20: "The Bow-Wow Affair") as Delilah Dovro
  • The Wild Wild West (1965) (Season 1 Episode 4: "The Night of Sudden Death") as Janet Coburn
  • Ben Casey (1965)
    • (Season 4 Episode 27: "Journeys End in Lovers Meeting") as Julie Jacoby
    • (Season 5 Episode 1: "War of Nerves") as Ann Phelps
    • (Season 5 Episode 9: "No More, Cried The Rooster - There Will Be Truth") as Ann Phelps
  • The Fugitive (1966-1967)
    • (Season 3 Episode 30: "Coralee") (1966) as Coralee Reynolds
    • (Season 4 Episode 19: "The Breaking of the Habit") (1967) as Sister Angelica
    • (Season 4 Episode 28: "The Shattered Silence") (1967) as Andrea Cross
  • Star Trek (1967) (Season 2 Episode 7: "Catspaw") as Sylvia
  • The Invaders (1967) (Season 2 Episode 1: "Condition Red") as Laurie Keller
  • The F.B.I. (1967-1973)
    • (Season 2 Episode 24: "Flight Plan") (1967) as Helen Meade
    • (Season 3 Episode 10: "Blueprint for Betrayal") (1967) as Julie Kipp
    • (Season 6 Episode 2: "The Traitor") (1970) as Elaine Stryker
    • (Season 9 Episode 5: "The Exchange") (1973) as Ada Benson
  • Mission: Impossible (1967-1971)
    • (Season 2 Episode 5: "The Slave, Part 1") (1967) as Amara
    • (Season 2 Episode 6: "The Slave, Part 2") (1967) as Amara
    • (Season 4 Episode 19: "Phantoms") (1970) as Nora Bennett
    • (Season 5 Episode 22: "The Party") (1971) as Olga Vanin
  • Ironside (1967-1972)
    • (Season 1 Episode 7: "Tagged for Murder") (1967) as Andra Bellingham
    • (Season 6 Episode 8: "Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?") (1972) as Judy Klaven
  • Hogan's Heroes (1967-1969)
    • (Season 3 Episode 16: "Carter Turns Traitor") (1967) as Leni Richter
    • (Season 3 Episode 22: "Duel of Honor") (1968) as Erika Weidler
    • (Season 5 Episode 13: "Is There a Traitor in the House?") (1969)
  • The Big Valley (1968) (Season 4 Episode 5: "Deathtown") as Alicia Akers
  • Bonanza (1968) (Season 10 Episode 8: "Little Girl Lost") as Martha Cartwright Dorcas
  • Mannix (1968-1969)
    • (Season 1 Episode 17: "Deadfall: Part 1") (1968) as Gail Mason
    • (Season 1 Episode 18: "Deadfall: Part 2") (1968) as Gail Mason
    • (Season 2 Episode 16: "Shadow of a Man") (1969) as Barbara Sanderson
  • Hawaii Five-O (1969) (Season 1 Episode 22: "Six Kilos") as Margi Carstairs
  • Get Smart (1969) (Season 5 Episode 3: "Valerie of the Dolls") as Valerie
  • The Whiteoaks of Jalna (1972) as Roma Fitzsturgis
    • (Season 1 Episode 1)
    • (Season 1 Episode 2)
    • (Season 1 Episode 3)
    • (Season 1 Episode 4)
  • Hawkins (1973) (Season 1 Episode: "Death and the Maiden") as Vivian Vincent
  • The Starlost (1973) (Season 1 Episode 15: "The Beehive") as Dr. Heather Marshall
  • Columbo (1974) (Season 4 Episode 2: "Negative Reaction") as Frances Galesko
  • Cannon (1976) (Season 5 Episode 22: "Point After Death") as Karen Jennings
  • The Six Million Dollar Man (1976) (Season 4 Episode 10: "A Bionic Christmas Carol") as Nora Crandall
  • Kojak (1978) (Season 5 Episode 20: "Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton") as Diane Marco
  • Hart to Hart (1982) (Season 4 Episode 1: "On a Bed of Harts") as Maris Thorn
  • Bring 'Em Back Alive (1982) (Season 1 Episode 5: "The Pied Piper") as Lady Selwyn
  • The Thorn Birds (1983)
    • (Season 1 Episode 1: "Part 1") as Sarah McQueen
    • (Season 1 Episode 2: "Part 2") as Sarah McQueen
  • Murder, She Wrote (1987) (Season 4 Episode 7: "If It's Thursday, It Must Be Beverly") as Mrs. Audrey Martin

TV Series - Main Cast

TV movie appearances

Film appearances

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