Dana Wynter life and biography

Dana Wynter was a German-born British actress, who was brought up in England and Southern Africa. She appeared in film and television for more than forty years beginning in the 1950s, most notably in the original version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Slim, ladylike British actress Dana Wynter spent most of her childhood in Rhodesia, where she attended Rhodes University as a pre-med student. An amateur preoccupation with theater led to a lifelong professional commitment; she made her first stage appearances before she turned 20, and her first film, White Corridors (1951), at 21. From 1955 through 1960 Wynter was under contract to 20th Century Fox studios in Hollywood. Usually called upon merely to exhibit cool-headed British reserve, she was given an excellent opportunity to display hysteria and near-lunacy in 1958's In Love and War. In films until the late '80s, Dana Wynter has also done a great deal of television; in 1966, she co-starred with Robert Lansing on the British-filmed espionage series The Man Who Never Was, and was cast (superbly) as Queen Elizabeth in the 1982 TV movie The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana.

Dana Wynter died on 5 May 2011 from congestive heart failure at the Ojai Valley Community Hospital's Continuing Care Center; she was 79 years old.

Filmography:

Le Sauvage (26-Nov-1975)
The Questor Tapes (23-Jan-1974)
Santee (Sep-1973)
Airport (5-Mar-1970)
If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (9-Oct-1968)
The List of Adrian Messenger (29-May-1963)
On the Double (19-May-1961)
Sink the Bismarck! (11-Feb-1960)
Shake Hands with the Devil (24-Jun-1959)
In Love and War (31-Oct-1958)
Fräulein (8-Jun-1958)
Something of Value (10-May-1957)
D-Day: The Sixth of June (29-May-1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (5-Feb-1956)
The View from Pompey's Head (4-Nov-1955)
It Started in Paradise (28-Oct-1952)
The Crimson Pirate (27-Sep-1952)
White Corridors (12-Jun-1951)

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