Acting
Linda Christian
1923-2011
Known for The Devil's Hand, Tarzan and the Mermaids, Casino Royale.
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Born11/13/1923
Died07/22/2011
AgeDied at 87
BirthplaceTampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico
DepartmentActing
Also known asBlanca Rosa Henrietta Stella Welter Vorhauer, Linda Christian Power, Linda Welter
Biography
Linda Christian (born November 13, 1923) is a Mexican movie actress, who filmed films in Mexican cinema and in Hollywood, her career reached its peak in the 1940s and 1950s. She played Mara in the last Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan film Tarzan and The Mermaids (1948). She is also noted for being the first Bond girl, appearing in a 1954 TV adaptation of the James Bond novel Casino Royale. In 1963 she starred in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, "An Out for Oscar".
