Samantha Eggar
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Samantha Eggar's father was a British Army brigadier and her mother was of Dutch/Portuguese extraction. Convent educated, Eggar became a stage actress in her teens. While performing in a Shakespeare play, Eggar was discovered by film producer Betty Box, who cast the tall, auburn-haired 23-year-old actress as a sluttish college coed in The Wild and the Willing (1961). Eggar's first international success was The Collector (1965), replacing Natalie Wood (who'd turned down the film) as the harried kidnap victim of obsessive Terence Stamp. Eggar garnered an Oscar nomination for her demanding performance, and also won the Cannes Film Festival award. Then followed a succession of unremarkable roles in films like Walk, Don't Run (1966) and Doctor Doolittle (1967) (which at least gave Eggar a chance to sing). She was better served in The Molly Maguires (1970) and Seven Per Cent Solution (1976), playing the wife of Sherlock Holmes crony Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) in the latter. Eggar's prolific American TV work has included the role of Anna Leonowens in the expensive, short-lived weekly Anna and the King (1972). Samantha Eggar has managed to maintain her dignity and integrity despite far too many horror flicks like The Brood (1979).
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | Unknown Powers |
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— | 2005 |
15% | The Astronaut's Wife |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | The Magic Flute |
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— | 1999 |
84% | Hercules |
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— | 1997 |
43% | The Phantom |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible |
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— | 1996 |
No Score Yet | A Case For Murder |
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— | 1993 |
No Score Yet | Dark Horse |
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— | 1992 |
No Score Yet | Round Numbers |
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— | 1991 |
No Score Yet | A Ghost in Monte Carlo |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Ragin' Cajun |
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— | 1990 |
No Score Yet | Love Among Thieves |
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— | 1987 |
57% | Curtains |
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— | 1983 |
No Score Yet | Demonoid |
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— | 1981 |
No Score Yet | Hot Touch |
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— | 1981 |
38% | The Exterminator |
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— | 1980 |
84% | The Brood |
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— | 1979 |
0% | The Uncanny |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Why Shoot the Teacher? |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Columbo: The Bye-Bye Sky High I.Q. Murder Case |
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— | 1977 |
No Score Yet | Welcome to Blood City |
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— | 1977 |
73% | The Seven-Per-Cent Solution |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | All the Kind Strangers |
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— | 1974 |
No Score Yet | Man of Destiny |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | A Name for Evil (The Grove) (The Face of Evil) |
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— | 1973 |
No Score Yet | L'Etrusco uccide ancora (The Dead Are Alive) |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | The Etruscan Kills Again (L'Etrusco uccide ancora) |
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— | 1972 |
No Score Yet | The Light at the Edge of the World |
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— | 1971 |
No Score Yet | The Walking Stick |
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— | 1970 |
90% | The Molly Maguires |
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— | 1970 |
20% | The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun |
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— | 1970 |
27% | Doctor Dolittle |
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— | 1967 |
83% | Walk, Don't Run |
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— | 1966 |
100% | The Collector |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | Return From The Ashes |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | Psyche 59 |
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— | 1964 |
No Score Yet | Doctor in Distress |
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— | 1963 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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6% |
Mental
2009
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82% |
Commander in Chief
2005-2006
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No Score Yet |
Cold Case
2003-2010
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No Score Yet |
Matlock
1986-1995
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91% |
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987-1994
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No Score Yet |
Hotel
1983-1988
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No Score Yet |
Magnum, P.I.
1980-1988
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No Score Yet |
Murder, She Wrote
1984-1996
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No Score Yet |
Hart to Hart
1979-1984
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No Score Yet |
The Love Boat
1977-1986
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No Score Yet |
Fantasy Island
1978-1984
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No Score Yet |
Columbo
1968-2003
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No Score Yet |
Starsky & Hutch
1975-1979
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No Score Yet |
Tales of the Unexpected
1979-1988
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No Score Yet |
The Saint
1962-1969
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