Camilla Sparv
{{short description|Swedish actress (born 1943)}}
{{BLP sources|date=May 2018}}
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|birth_name = Camilla Margareta Sparv
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|birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1943|6|3|df=y}}
|birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden
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|occupation = Actress
|yearsactive = 1965–1993
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- {{marriage|Robert Evans|1964|1967|end=div}}
- {{marriage|Herbert W. Hoover III|1969|1979|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Fred Kolber|June 1994|2016|end=his death}}
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Camilla Margareta Sparv (born 3 June 1943) is a Swedish actress, noted for her role opposite James Coburn in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966).
Early life
Camilla Margareta Sparv{{cite web |title=Camilla Sparv |url=https://filmbladet.se/personer/camilla-sparv |website=filmbladet.se |access-date=6 August 2023 |language=sv-SE}} was born in Stockholm, Sweden,
- {{cite web|last=Erickson |first=Hal |title=Camilla Sparv |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/67103/Camilla-Sparv/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122194426/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/67103/Camilla-Sparv/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 January 2014 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2014 |accessdate=29 October 2013}}
- https://www.allmovie.com/artist/camilla-sparv-vn15298311
Career
She was a photographer's model in Stockholm.{{cite book |last1=Evans |first1=Robert |author1-link=Robert Evans |title=The Kid Stays in the Picture |date=1994 |publisher=Phoenix Books, Inc. |isbn=978-1-59777-525-0 |page=101 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VCCbuBuQ0AC&dq=Camilla+Sparv&pg=PA101 |access-date=6 August 2023 |language=en |quote=Her name was Camilla Sparv. The moment she arrived in New York, she was a star model. A tall, leggy blonde, she had a natural patrician quality money can't ...}}{{cite book |last1=Hall |first1=William |title=Sir Michael Caine - The Biography |date=14 September 2007 |publisher=Kings Road Publishing |isbn=978-1-78418-535-0 |page=170 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yTitDwAAQBAJ&dq=Camilla+Sparv&pg=PT170 |language=en |quote=... chestnut-haired Swedish beauty of twenty-four named Camilla Sparv came on the scene. She was a former photographer's model from Stockholm whose cool and ...}}
Sparv appeared in such films as: Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966), Murderers' Row (1966),{{cite news |title=Cover and scans |url=https://www.pulpinternational.com/pulp/entry/Cover-and-scans-from-Adam-magazine-US-version-of-February-1967.html |access-date=6 August 2023 |work=Adam magazine US |publisher=Pulp International .com |date=February 1967}} The Trouble with Angels (1966), Assignment K (1968), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), Mackenna's Gold (1969), Downhill Racer (1969), The Greek Tycoon (1978), Caboblanco (1980), and Survival Zone (1983), as well as the television shows Airwolf, The Rockford Files (SE2EP19), The Love Boat, Hawaii Five-O and the miniseries Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls (1981). In 1977, she appeared in "Never Con a Killer," the pilot for the ABC crime drama The Feather and Father Gang.
Personal life
Sparv was briefly married to American film producer Robert Evans in 1965.
On 20 December 1969,{{cite web |author1=Bettmann Collection |title=Herbert W. 'Bunker' Hoover III kisses his new bride, Camilla Sparv |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/herbert-w-bunker-hoover-iii-kisses-his-new-bride-camilla-news-photo/516524918 |website=Getty Images |location=Miami Beach, Fla. |language=en-us |date=December 20, 1969 |quote=Herbert W. 'Bunker' Hoover III kisses his new bride, Camilla Sparv Hoover in their car following their wedding at Miami Beach. Hoover is the heir to the Hoover appliance firm, which probably makes him the richest soldier serving in the Army.}} Sparv married her second husband, Herbert W. 'Bunker' Hoover III, a Hoover vacuum heir, and had two children by him.{{cite web |author1=Fairchild Archive / Penske Media |title=Circus of the Stars Weekend |url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/camilla-sparv-hoover-attends-a-party-celebrating-the-50th-news-photo/1450010050 |website=Getty Images |access-date=6 August 2023 |location=Los Angeles |language=en-us |date=November 1976 |quote=Camilla Sparv Hoover (C) attends a party, celebrating the 50th anniversaries of l'Union des Artistes and the Variety Clubs International, in Los Angeles in November 1976.}}
Sparv had one child with her third husband, Fred Kolber, later, a Madoff investor.
- {{cite news |last1=Aleksander |first1=Irina |title=Tatiana Boncompagni's New Novel 'Hedge Fund Wives' Hits Close to Home |url=https://observer.com/2009/01/tatiana-boncompagnis-new-novel-ihedge-fund-wivesi-hits-close-to-home/ |access-date=6 August 2023 |work=Observer.com |date=27 January 2009}}
- Laura Taylor Swain#Hoover v. Boncompagni
{{cite web |title=madoff customer list |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/madoff_customer_list.pdf |website=cbsnews.com |access-date=6 August 2023}}{{cite news |title=Searching the Madoff List |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/madoff/page/152 |access-date=6 August 2023 |work=The New York Times |quote=Fairfield International C/O Fred Kolber & Co; Greenwich, CT 06836}}{{cite web |title=Las Vegas 7/16-27/2008 |url=https://cdn.acbl.org/nabc/2008/02/FinalResults.html |website=American Contract Bridge League |access-date=6 August 2023 |quote=2008/02 › FinalResults Camilla Kolber - Fred Kolber, Miami Beach FL,}}{{cite web |author1=Photography by Samuel Rivas |title=David Pulley & Stephen Macricostas' NYE Celebration |url=https://worldredeye.com/2016/01/david-pulley-nye-party-at-ocean-drive-condo/ |website=World Red Eye |access-date=6 August 2023 |date=1 January 2016 |quote=Fred & Camila Kolber}}{{cite web |last1=Taylor |first1=Bryan |title=Eddie Gilbert: The Boy Wonder of Wall Street |url=https://globalfinancialdata.com/eddie-gilbert-the-boy-wonder-of-wall-street |website=Global Financial Data |access-date=6 August 2023 |language=en-gb |date=18 February 2016 |quote=After being released from prison, Gilbert was forbidden from the securities market. He moved to New Mexico in 1989 and started the BGK Group in 1991 along with Ed Berman and Fred Kolber to profit from investing in real estate.}}
Recognition
Sparv was awarded a Golden Globe as Most Promising Newcomer (female) in 1967 for her role opposite James Coburn in Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966).
References
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External links
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- [https://www.rogerebert.com/cast-and-crew/camilla-sparv Camilla Sparv] at RogerEbert.com
- [https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/camilla-sparv Camilla Sparv] at Getty Images
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Category:Actresses from Stockholm
Category:Swedish film actresses
Category:New Star of the Year (Actress) Golden Globe winners
Category:Evans family (show business)
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