Camilla Sparv

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Camilla Sparv
Born
Camilla Margareta Sparv [1]

(1943-06-03) 3 June 1943 (age 81)
Stockholm, Sweden [1]
OccupationActress
Years active1965–1993
Height175 cm (5 ft 9 in) [1]
Spouses
(m. 1964;div. 1967)
Herbert W. Hoover III
(m. 1969;div. 1979)
Fred Kolber
(m. 1994;died 2016)
Children3

Camilla Margareta Sparv (born 3 June 1943) is a Swedish actress, noted for her role opposite James Coburn in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966).

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Early life

Camilla Margareta Sparv [1] was born in Stockholm, Sweden, [2] on 3 June 1943. [3]

Career

She was a photographer's model in Stockholm. [4] [5]

Sparv appeared in such films as: Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), Murderers' Row (1966), [6] The Trouble with Angels (1966), Assignment K (1968), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), Mackenna's Gold (1969), Downhill Racer (1969), The Greek Tycoon (1978), Caboblanco (1980), and Survival Zone (1983), as well as the television shows Airwolf , The Rockford Files (SE2EP19), The Love Boat , Hawaii Five-O and the miniseries Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981). In 1977, she appeared in "Never Con a Killer," the pilot for the ABC crime drama The Feather and Father Gang .

Personal life

Sparv was briefly married to American film producer Robert Evans in 1965. [2] [4]

On 20 December 1969, [7] Sparv married her second husband, Herbert W. 'Bunker' Hoover III, a Hoover vacuum heir, and had two children by him. [8]

Sparv had one child with her third husband, Fred Kolber, later, a Madoff investor. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]

Recognition

Sparv was awarded a Golden Globe as Most Promising Newcomer (female) in 1967 for her role opposite James Coburn in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966).

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  5. Hall, William (14 September 2007). Sir Michael Caine - The Biography. Kings Road Publishing. p. 170. ISBN   978-1-78418-535-0. ... chestnut-haired Swedish beauty of twenty-four named Camilla Sparv came on the scene. She was a former photographer's model from Stockholm whose cool and ...
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