Daliah Lavi

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Actress • Singer • Model

Birth Date: October 12, 1942

Death Date: May 3, 2017

Birth Place: Moshav Shavey Zion, Palestine

Daliah Lavi was masterfully playing the beautiful vixen in spy movie spoofs decades before successors to the throne like Elizabeth Hurley picked up the mantle in films like "Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery." The Israeli import started off in more serious films like "The Whip and The Body" (a horror movie about a ghost that returns to flog his sister-in-law)--though "serious" is a loose term when talking about this film, since its over-the-top elements rather hilariously earned it the alternate U.S. title "What?!" Lavi also starred as the love interest Cunégonde in the film adaptation of "Candide," the existentialist tale of a man's journeys to distant lands, while constantly asking the question, "Is this the best of all possible worlds?"

Again, it's worth noting that, while the philosophical underpinnings are dead serious, the story is Voltaire's, so naturally it has its absurdist qualities. Lavi jumped into the deep end of the absurd in the 1960s, breaking out as an American star in spy parodies like "Casino Royale" (the only comedy made from a James Bond novel) and "The Silencers" (another film that satirized the sexy, suave spy persona of James Bond).

Credits

Die Schlager der 70er

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Show
2014

Ohrwürmer

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Show
2014

KULT

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Show
2014

CatlowStream

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Rosita
Movie
1971

Some Girls Do

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Helga
Movie
1969

The High Commissioner

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Maria Cholon
Movie
1968

Those Fantastic Flying Fools

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Madelaine
Movie
1967

The SilencersStream

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Tina
Movie
1966

The Spy With a Cold Nose

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Princess Natasha Romanova
Movie
1966

Lord Jim

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The Girl
Movie
1965

La Celestina P... R...

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Daniela
Movie
1965

DM-Killer

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Lolita
Movie
1965

Ten Little IndiansStream

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Ilona Bergen
Movie
1965

Operation Solo

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Irina Badoni
Movie
1965

Blazing Sand

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Movie
1964

Old Shatterhand

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Paloma
Movie
1964

El Demonio

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Purificata
Movie
1963

青い波紋

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Movie
1963

What!

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Nevenka Menliff
Movie
1963

And So to Bed

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Sekretärin
Movie
1963

Two Weeks in Another TownStream

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Veronica
Movie
1962
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Quoi

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Movie
1962

Un soir sur la plage

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Movie
1961

Im Stahlnetz des Dr. Mabuse

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Maria Sabrehm
Movie
1961

Candide

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Cunégonde
Movie
1960