Dana Wynter
Highest Rated: 100% The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Lowest Rated: 50% Something of Value (1957)
Birthday: Jun 8, 1931
Birthplace: Berlin, Germany
Though Dana Wynter held a number of leading parts in television, her breakthrough film role was as Becky Driscoll, patient and former love interest of main character Dr. Miles Bennell in 1956's original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." The sci-fi classic served as a metaphor for anti-communist paranoia of the McCarthy era; Wynter's character, Becky, and Dr. Bennell fight to warn humankind about the Pod People, emotionless physical duplicates who take possession of the bodies of humans. Thanks to the exposure Wynter gained from the critically acclaimed film, she shared a Golden Globe win the following year for Most Promising Female Newcomer with fellow actresses Anita Ekberg (of "La Dolce Vita") and Victoria Shaw. After this win, Wynter appeared in fairly prominent movie roles, including Holly, fiancée of Rock Hudson's character in the Kenyan war drama "Something of Value"; and Jennifer Curtis, the love interest in the IRA drama "Shake Hands with the Devil," co-starring James Cagney. In the '60s and '70s, Wynter took roles primarily in television, including a cameo on the iconic Western "Gunsmoke" and a twice-occurring role on the mystery series "The Rockford Files," starring James Garner. Though she largely retired from acting after the early '80s, she appeared in one '90s TV movie before retreating from the spotlight. Wynter died in 2011.
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Dana Wynter
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Return of Ironside | Katherine Ironside (Character) | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana | Queen Elizabeth II (Character) | - | 1982 |
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Lovers Like Us | Jessie Coutances (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lives of Jenny Dolan | Andrea Hardesty (Character) | - | 1975 |
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Santee | Valerie (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Questor Tapes | Lady Helena Trimble (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Connection | Eleanor Warren (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hawaii Five-0: The 90-Second War | Claudine (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Triangle | Olive Millikan (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Pattern of Morality | Unknown (Character) | - | 1971 |
75% |
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Airport | Cindy Bakersfeld (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Any Second Now | Jane Peterson (Character) | - | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | If He Hollers, Let Him Go | Ellen Whitlock (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Companions in Nightmare | Julie Klanton (Character) | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Time in Havana | Mrs. Anne Palmer (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Danger Has Two Faces | Eva Wainwright (Character) | - | 1966 |
64% |
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The List of Adrian Messenger | Lady Jocelyn Bruttenholm (Character) | - | 1963 |
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On the Double | Lady Margaret MacKenzie-Smith (Character) | - | 1961 |
86% |
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Sink the Bismarck! | Anne Davis (Character) | - | 1960 |
75% |
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Shake Hands With the Devil | Jennifer Curtis (Character) | - | 1959 |
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In Love and War | Sue Trumbell (Character) | - | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fraulein | Erika Angermann (Character) | - | 1958 |
50% |
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Something of Value | Holly (Character) | - | 1957 |
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D-Day, the Sixth of June | Valerie Russell (Character) | - | 1956 |
97% |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers | Becky Driscoll (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The View From Pompey's Head | Dinah Blackford Higgins (Character) | - | 1955 |
100% |
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The Crimson Pirate | La Signorita (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lady Godiva Rides Again | Myrtle Shaw (Character) | - | 1951 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 95% | Magnum, P.I. | Olivia Ross (Guest Star) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hart to Hart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Rockford Files | Princess Irene Rachevsky (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cannon | Jackie Akers (Guest Star) | 1973-1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marcus Welby, M.D. | Julie Croft (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | 82% | Get Smart | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Name of the Game | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Isabel Townsend (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Wild, Wild West | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey | Eva Robinson (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Three Sons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 12 O'Clock High | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964-1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Lisa Raincloud (Guest Star) | 1961-1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Virginian | Leona Kelland (Guest Star) | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 20th Century-Fox Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The United States Steel Hour | Diana Ryland (Character) | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suspense | Unknown (Character) | 1954 |