Ann Turkel is an American actress and former model, known for her collaborations with, and marriage to, actor Richard Harris.
Ann Turkel | |
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 Turkel in Matt Helm, 1975 | |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, model |
| Years active | 1968–present |
| Spouse | |
Early life
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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
editIn 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
editTurkel 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
editFilm
edit| 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
edit| 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
edit- ^ 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
edit- ^ Goodwin, Cliff (2003). Behaving Badly: Richard Harris. London: Virgin Books. p. 162. ISBN 9781852279578.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lighfield, Patrick (1981). The Most Beautiful Women. London: Elm Tree. p. 54. ISBN 9780241105559.
- ^ "People". Star Tribune. Minnesota, Minneapolis. June 8, 1974. p. 3. Retrieved September 25, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
edit- Ann Turkel at IMDb
- Ann Turkel at AllMovie
