Aliza Gur

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]

Aliza Gur
Born
Alizia Gross

(1940-04-01) 1 April 1940
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]

Early life

Gur was born on 1 April 1940 in Ramat Gan, British Mandate of Palestine (now Israel). Her parents had fled Germany during Hitler's dictatorship and settled where she and her brother were born.

A woman of many talents, she attended 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 trained as a combat soldier in the Israeli Army 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 Cedar of Lebanons 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 one 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. Film fatales: women in espionage films and television, 1962-1973. 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. 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
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.