Aliza Gur

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Aliza Gur
Aliza Gur op Schiphol.jpg
Gur in 1964
Born
Alizia Gross

(1940-04-01) 1 April 1940 (age 81)
Ramat Gan, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel)
NationalityIsraeli
Other namesAliza Gross
Alizia Gur
Alizia Gross
Years active1960–1973
Spouse(s)Seymour "Sy" Schulman (1964-1977)
Sheldon Schrager (1978–?) (divorced)[1]

Aliza Gur (Hebrew: עליזה גור‎, born Alizia Gross; 1 April 1940) is an Israeli actress who was Miss Israel of 1960 and a semifinalist in the Miss Universe pageant held in Miami Beach that same year.[2] She played Vida in the James Bond film From Russia with Love in 1963.

Early life[]

Born Alizia Gross on 1 April 1940 in Ramat Gan, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel), to a family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Her parents had fled Nazi Germany during Hitler's dictatorship and settled where she and her brother were born.

A woman of many talents, she studied at the University of Haifa, where she designed and made dresses to help pay for tuition. Her first pageant win was as Miss Haifa.[3][4]

She was enlisted as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces. Gur also and studied acting in Tel Aviv under Peter Fry, a well known director.[5] After her success in national and international beauty pageants, she settled in California, where she began her film and television career. Her parents emigrated to the United States, as well, and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, for a time; they died in the 1970s. In 1960, she toured America to help support the purchase of Israeli Bonds. Gur married twice, first in 1964 to Sy Shulman, the Director of Hollywood's Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, and next to Sheldon Schrager, and had one son from her first marriage. Both marriages ended in divorce.

Acting career[]

In 1965, she made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Dr. Nina Rivelli in "The Case of the Baffling Bug". Her other television credits include The Big Valley, Daniel Boone, Get Smart, The Wild Wild West and Adventures in Paradise. Her film credits include Exodus (1960), A Place to Go (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Night Train to Paris (1964), Agent for H.A.R.M. (1966), Kill a Dragon (1967), The Hand of Night (1968), and her last movie Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968).[6][7][8]

Her most famous role was as Vida of two fighting gypsies in 1963's James Bond film From Russia with Love, where she fought Miss Jamaica's Martine Beswick.[9] The female lead in the film, Daniela Bianchi, had been Gur's roommate at the 1960 Miss Universe pageant.[6]

Partial filmography[]

References[]

  1. ^ Profile, glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com; accessed 2 December 2015.
  2. ^ Tom Lisanti, Louis Paul (10 April 2002). Film fatales: women in espionage films and television, 1962-1973. ISBN 9780786411948. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
  3. ^ Miami News, Miami, Florida, pg. 13, 19 June 1960
  4. ^ She designed dresses in "Miss Israel to Visit Syracuse", The Post-Standard, Syracuse, New York, pg. 9, 12 December 1960
  5. ^ Independent Star News, Padadena, California, pg. 64, 19 November 1967
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Aliza Gur at IMDb
  7. ^ Appeared in Adventures in Paradise in "TV Guide", Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu, Hawaii, pg. 75, 15 January 1961
  8. ^ Appeared in Exodus and A Place to Go in Luft, Herbert, "Hollywood", St. Louis Jewish Light, pg. 20, 6 December 1967
  9. ^ "Movie Mayhem", The Salem News, Salem, Ohio, pg. 12, 15 October 1963

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