Linda Christian

Linda Christian

Actor

Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
November 13, 1923

Biography

Linda Christian (born November 13, 1923) is a Mexican movie actress, who filmed films in Mexican cinema and in Hollywood, her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mara in the last Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film Tarzan and The Mermaids (1948). She is also noted for being the first Bond girl, appearing in a 1954 TV adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale. In 1963 she starred in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, "An Out for Oscar". Description above from the Wikipedia article Linda Christian, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Linda Christian 1
Linda Christian 2

Representative Works

Show Boat
Show Boat
6.2
/ English
The V.I.P.s
The V.I.P.s
6.1
/ English
Athena
Athena
5.8
/ English
Up in Arms
Up in Arms
5.7
/ English
Club Havana
Club Havana
5.9
/ English
Casino Royale
Casino Royale
5.3
/ English
The Happy Time
The Happy Time
6.5
/ English
Delitti
Delitti
4.2
/ English

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Show Boat
1951Nominee

Best Performance

Show Boat

The V.I.P.s
1963Nominee

Best Performance

The V.I.P.s

Athena
1954Nominee

Best Performance

Athena

Career Highlights

Tarzan and the Mermaids
1948Highlight

Best Performance

Tarzan and the Mermaids

Up in Arms
1944Highlight

Best Performance

Up in Arms