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Antoinette Bower | |
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 Bower as guest star on Adventures in Paradise , 1961 | |
| Born | 1932 (age 92–93) Baden-Baden, Republic of Baden, Germany |
| Years active | 1954–1992 |
| Spouse | James Francis Gill |
Antoinette Bower (born 1932) [1] is a British [2] retired film, television and stage actress, whose career lasted nearly four decades.
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. [3]
Bower worked as a disc jockey at a radio station in Owen Sound, Ontario. [4] She moved to Toronto to pursue acting, appearing in stage productions at the newly opened Crest Theatre, [4] the first in that city to consistently mount Canadian productions rather than touring productions from the US or Britain. [5]
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. [6]
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 . [7]
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. [8] [9]
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, [4] whom she met when he moved to Los Angeles in 1962. [2]
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[note: a weekly supplement in newspapers across Canada, the issue of Weekend scanned by Newspapers.com for this link was from The Ottawa Journal]
Co-starring with Rekert are Antoinette Bower as "Fox," a former rodeo star who is now the ranch manager; Alex Bruhanski as C.C., the camp cook; Samuel Sarkar as Bangladesh-born ranch hand Vic, who due to discrimination has a kinship with North American Indians...
Illustration Color Photo; Color Photo; Color Photo; ANTOINETTE BOWER, far left, Sam Sarkar and Winston Rekert return in Neon Rider; WINSTON REKERT MARTIN LAWRENCE stars in the new sitcom Martin; PF TOM SKERRITT, left, plays a sheriff in Picket Fences; PF
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