Claudine Auger
{{Short description|French actress (1941–2019)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Claudine Auger
| image = Il padre di famiglia 15.png
| caption = Auger in The Head of the Family (1967)
| birth_name = Claudine Oger
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1941|04|26|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2019|12|18|1941|04|26|df=yes}}
| death_place = Paris, France
| children = 1
| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1958–1995
| spouse = {{Plainlist|
- {{marriage|Pierre Gaspard-Huit|1959|1969|end=divorced}}
- {{marriage|Peter Brent|1984|2008|end=his death}}
}}
}}
Claudine Auger (born Claudine Oger; 26 April 1941 – 18 December 2019) was a French actress best known for her role as a Bond girl, Dominique "Domino" Derval, in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). She earned the title of Miss France Monde 1958 (the French representative to the Miss World beauty pageant) and went on to finish as the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest.
Career
Born in Paris, France, Auger began her career as a model and earned the title of Miss France Monde 1958 (the French representative to the Miss World beauty pageant) and went on to finish as the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-50864159 |title=Claudine Auger: French actress known for James Bond role dies aged 78 |work=BBC News |date=20 December 2019 |access-date=19 November 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/james-bond-s-first-french-love-interest-played-domino-in-thunderball-20191223-p53mci.html |title=James Bond’s first French love interest played Domino in Thunderball |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=23 December 2019 |access-date=19 November 2024}} Jean Cocteau cast Auger in an uncredited role as a tall ballerina in Testament of Orpheus (1960). When she was 18, she married the 43-year-old writer-director Pierre Gaspard-Huit, and he cast her in several films, including Le Masque de fer (1962) and Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance (1963).{{cite book |first1=Tom |last1=Lisanti |first2=Louis |last2=Paul |title=Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962–1973 |publisher=McFarland and Company |date=2002 |p=46}}
In 1965 she was cast in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball, directed by Terence Young. Thunderball launched Auger into a successful European movie career, but did little for her otherwise in the United States.{{Cite news | title= Bond Was No Boost For Auger | url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-11-29-ca-16048-story.html | first= Roderick | last= Mann | date= 29 November 1986 | access-date= 21 July 2012 | work= Los Angeles Times | archive-date= 7 December 2010 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101207061511/http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-29/entertainment/ca-16048_1_claudine-auger | url-status= live }} Though she performed in the movie, her French accent was considered too strong and her voice was dubbed by another actress. She did, however, star in a Danny Thomas special called The Road to Lebanon with Bing Crosby, which was shown on NBC on 20 April 1966.{{Cite web|last1=Pairpoint|first1=Lionel|title=The Chronological Bing Crosby on Television|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/BingTV.htm|website=BING magazine|access-date=22 February 2016|archive-date=28 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190628030554/http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/BingTV.htm|url-status=live}}
File:Le dolci signore Claudine Auger Marco Guglielmi.jpg in Anyone Can Play (1968)]]
In 1966 she co-starred in the World War II drama Triple Cross with Yul Brynner and Christopher Plummer, that reunited her with her James Bond director Terence Young.{{cite web |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/triple-cross-1967 |title=Triple Cross |work=RogerEbert.com |date=11 July 1967 |access-date=19 November 2024}} Auger co-starred with another Bond girl, Ursula Andress, in the Italian comedy Anyone Can Play (1968). She starred with two future Bond girls, Barbara Bouchet and Barbara Bach, in Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971), a giallo mystery. She had major roles in films such as The Killing Game in 1967,{{Cite news |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/person/2828/Claudine-Auger/biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020060100/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/2828/Claudine-Auger/biography |url-status=dead |archive-date=20 October 2012 |title=Claudine Auger |first=Hal |work=The New York Times |author-link=Hal Erickson (author) |date=2012 |last=Erickson }} Flic Story in 1972, and filmed scenes for The Eiger Sanction (1975), only to have her entire performance cut from the movie.
On television, she made an appearance in 1972 on the CBS series Medical Center. In the 1980s Auger starred The Man Who Married a French Wife which was broadcast on the BBC and shown as part of the "Great Performances" series that was broadcast on PBS in the United States. She also appeared in the 1994 British television series The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
Personal life and death
In 1959, she married film director and screenwriter Pierre Gaspard-Huit. They later divorced in 1969. She married British businessman Peter Brent{{Cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/kiss-death-article-1.694430 |title=Kiss of Death |first=Michael |last=Riedel |work=New York Daily News |date=12 November 1995 |access-date=21 July 2012 |archive-date=19 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319124428/http://www.nydailynews.com/kiss-death-article-1.694430 |url-status=live }} in 1984. He died in 2008. They had one child.
Auger died in Paris on 18 December 2019 following a lengthy illness.{{Cite web |title=Thunderball actress Claudine Auger has died aged 78 |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2019/1220/1102286-thunderball-actress-claudine-auger-has-died-aged-78/ |work=RTE |date=20 December 2019 |access-date=20 December 2019 |archive-date=21 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221172452/https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2019/1220/1102286-thunderball-actress-claudine-auger-has-died-aged-78/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last1=Milkelbank |first1=Peter |title=Claudine Auger, First French Actress to Star as a Bond Girl, Dies at 78 |url=https://people.com/movies/bond-girl-claudine-auger-dies/ |work=People |date=19 December 2019 |access-date=20 December 2019 |archive-date=17 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117010250/https://people.com/movies/bond-girl-claudine-auger-dies/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/claudine-auger-dead-bond-girl-thunderball-was-78-1264424|title=Claudine Auger, Bond Girl in 'Thunderball,' Dies at 78 |work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=20 December 2019|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-date=3 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103002402/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/claudine-auger-dead-bond-girl-thunderball-was-78-1264424|url-status=live}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable"
! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Year ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Title ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Role ! style="background: #CCCCCC;" | Notes |
| 1958
| | Uncredited |
| rowspan=2|1960
| Minerva | |
| Terrain vague
| the salesgirl | |
| 1961
| Les Moutons de Panurge | Monique | Uncredited |
| rowspan=2|1962
| the new waitress | (segment "Envie, L'"), Uncredited |
| Le Masque de fer
| Isabelle de Saint-Marc | |
| rowspan=3|1963
| Clio Andropolous | |
| Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance
| rowspan=2|Amrita | |
| {{ill|The Mystery of the Indian Temple|fr|Le Mystère du temple hindou}}
| Mario Camerini |
| 1964
| Elektra Tzanou | |
| rowspan=3|1965
| Yo Yo | Isolina | |
| The Reckless
| | Uncredited |
| Thunderball
| Dominique Derval ("Domino") | |
| rowspan=4|1966
| Lila | |
| Treasure of San Gennaro
| Concettina | |
| Triple Cross
| Paulette | |
| The Devil in Love
| |
| rowspan=2|1967
| Jacqueline Meyrand | |
| The Head of the Family
| Adriana | |
| rowspan=5|1968
| Esmeralda | |
| Escalation
| Carla Maria Manini | |
| Adriatic Sea of Fire
| Mirjana | |
| Listen, Let's Make Love
| Ida Bernasconi | |
| The Cats
| Barbara | |
| rowspan=2|1969
| Love Birds | Marina | |
| Come ti chiami, amore mio?
| | |
| rowspan=4|1971
| Equinozio | | |
| Black Belly of the Tarantula
| Laura | |
| A Bay of Blood
| Renata Donati | |
| Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide
| Nathalie Silvener | |
| rowspan=2|1972
| Giorgia's friend | |
| The Summertime Killer
| Michèle | |
| rowspan=2|1974
| Une passagère sur le paquebot | Uncredited |
| La dynamite est bonne à boire
| Consuelo | |
| rowspan=2|1975
| L'Intrépide | Sophie | |
| Flic Story
| Catherine | |
| rowspan=2|1976
| Il colpaccio | | |
| Cuando los maridos se iban a la guerra
| Sol | |
| 1977
| Betty | |
| rowspan=2|1978
| Sybill | |
| Butterfly on the Shoulder
| The coat's Woman | |
| rowspan=3|1979
| Elisa Massacesi | |
| Lobster for Breakfast
| Carla Spinosi | |
| The Associate
| Agnès Pardot | |
| rowspan=2|1980
| Johanna MacPherson | |
| Prestami tua moglie
| Diana | |
| 1981
| Black Jack (a.k.a. Asalto al casino) | Jill Stradford | |
| 1984
| Sophie Meister | |
| 1985
| Rosa Ragusa | |
| 1986
| Exploits of a Young Don Juan | the mother | |
| rowspan=2|1988
| Un amore di donna | Gabriella's mother | |
| The Sparrow's Fluttering
| Dino's widow | |
| 1991
| La bocca | Countess Veronica Rospigliosi | |
| 1992
| Mrs. McEwan |
| 1994
| L'ombra della sera | La mère d'Eva | Television Film |
| 1995
| Los hombres siempre mienten | Isabelle | |
| 1995
|Un orage immobile | Artémise d'Aubec | Television Film |
| 1997
| Madame de Fervaques | |
References
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External links
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- [https://www.aenigma-images.com/2020/10/claudine-auger/ Claudine Auger] at [https://www.aenigma-images.com/ aenigma]
- [http://aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=694 Claudine Auger] (Aveleyman)
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