Aliza Gur

Birth : 1944-04-01, Ramat Gan, Israel

History

Aliza Gur was born Aliza Gross in Ramat Gan, Israel, in 1944. She was Miss Israel of 1960 in the Miss Universe pageant, placing in the top 15. Her parents had fled Germany during the rise to power of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and they eventually settled in Israel, where she and her brother were born. She emigrated to the US in her 20s and settled in California, where she began her film and television career. Her television credits include guest appearances on Get Smart(1965) and The Wild Wild West (1965), among other shows. Her film credits include From Russia with Love (1963), Kill a Dragon (1967) and the cult vampire film Beast of Morocco(1968) (she was also, at 12 years of age, an extra in The Ten Commandments (1956). Her parents came to the United States and settled in Cleveland, Ohio, for a time. They passed away in the mid-'70s.

Profile

Movies

Inside 'From Russia with Love'

Herself

A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "From Russia with Love".

Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John

Rachel Friedman

During World War II, Archbishop Angelo Roncalli attempts to save Jews in Italy from Nazi exterminators.

The Hand of Night

Marissa

A tourist travelling through Morocco discovers an ancient curse and must choose between light and dark.

Tarzan and the Jungle Boy

Myrna

Tarzan is joined by a reporter and her fiance on a journey to find a boy who was abandoned in the jungle six years earlier. The search party must also battle an evil native, who is out to kill the boy and take over as chief of his brother's tribe.

Kill a Dragon

Tisa

Chinese villagers hire a mercenary and his team of karate experts to help rid them of a gangster and his henchman who are threatening their island.

Agent for H.A.R.M.

Mid-Eastern Contact

The head of the Human Aetiological Relations Machine pits an agent against a flesh-to-fungus spore gun.

Night Train to Paris

Catherine Carrel

Former OSS officer Alan Holiday, now living in London, is visited on New Year's Eve by Catherine Carrel who says she is a close friend of Jules Lemoine who served with Holiday during the war. Lemoine urgently requests that Holiday go to Paris on a secret mission. Lemoine visits and wants Alan to deliver a reel of tape which he gives him, and keeps a fake reel himself to deceive enemy agents. Lemoine is killed and the fake tape stolen. Holiday, poses as an assistant to photographer Louis Vernay, and they take three models along to further the ruse.

The Beauty Jungle

Miss Peru

A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

From Russia with Love

Vida

Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul, where he must rely on his wits to escape with his life in a series of deadly encounters with the enemy.