Linda Christian

Acting

Linda Christian

Born — Died

1923-11-13 — 2011-07-22

Place of birth

Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Linda Christian, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 13 titles

The V.I.P.s poster
6.2

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

The V.I.P.s

1963

The World's Gold poster
5.6

Aided by a chauffeur and a butler, a student of humble means pretends to be wealthy in order to attract the romantic interest of a rich girl.

The World's Gold

1967

The Devil's Hand poster
4.6

A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a satanic cult.

The Devil's Hand

1961

Appointment in Ischia poster
6.2

Famous singer Mimmo is a widower with a daughter, Letizia, to whom will give a mother. But the girl does not accept the current girlfriend of her father, growing fond of a young man, who wants as mother. The child creates many situations, such as coming to Ischia for treatment with mud, so that the two would meet and fall in love.

Appointment in Ischia

1960

The Moment of Truth poster
7.1

Miguel, a poor young man living in Franco's Spain becomes a bull fighter to escape poverty.

The Moment of Truth

1965

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets poster
6.0

A young German comes to Rome on vacation and is not slow to win female hearts. When the game become dangerous due to a possible marriage, the young man returns to his homeland.

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets

1964

How to Seduce a Playboy? poster
6.8

A young man is chosen by a magazine company to be a modeled into a public heart-throb while being dogged by a persistant reporter out to expose the fraud the company is putting out.

How to Seduce a Playboy?

1966

All the Gold in the World poster
5.1

The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her parents — until an unlikely hero steps in.

All the Gold in the World

1968

The Beauty Jungle poster
5.3

A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

The Beauty Jungle

1964

The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall poster
6.4

Not realizing the dangers he is facing, Young Dieter will do anything to get his ball back after it was thrown over the Berlin wall by a ruthless guar

The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall

1965

Passport for a Corpse poster
7.7

When a robbery goes wrong the only survivor tries to smuggle himself across the border by hiding in a coffin. When he gets out of the coffin he finds himself locked in a morgue freezer with three dead bodies. While trying to escape the morgue and his isolation he slowly starts going mad and hallucinating. Throughout the film he is haunted or menaced by a woman who may or may not be real. Unique and strange film that gets more and more weird as it goes along.

Passport for a Corpse

1962

Das große Wunschkonzert poster
8.0

A sentimental musical film about a star conductor and his motherless daughter, orphaned children, choirboys, and a pretty governess.

Das große Wunschkonzert

1960

10:32 in the Morning poster
5.3

Painter Peter Hartman is arrested at the scene of a murder. He soon turns out to have ties to the victim's young widow. As Inspector Stroomer begins to unravel the mystery, two very different sides of the story are presented to him. Now it is up to Stroomer to find enough photographic evidence to make out which version is the truth.

10:32 in the Morning

1966

1950s · 10 titles

Show Boat poster
6.2

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show Boat.

Show Boat

1951

Casino Royale poster
5.2

American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions.

Casino Royale

1954

Athena poster
5.8

A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.

Athena

1954

The House of the Seven Hawks poster
6.1

A ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.

The House of the Seven Hawks

1959

Battle Zone poster
5.5

Two Marine Corps combat photographers compete for the love of a Red Cross nurse during the Korean War. During a secret mission behind the North Korean lines their rivalry reaches a boiling point.

Battle Zone

1952

Rebel Flight to Cuba poster
9.5

Peter escapes a firing squad and leaves the island of San Quinto on a commercial flight to Bermuda. The plane is hijacked by a Nazi and San Quinto's Ex-General Cordobas who shoot pilot Pink and damage the landing gear of the plane.

Rebel Flight to Cuba

1959

No artwork available
6.5

A luminously beautiful, provocative young woman is rescued near a small fishing village on the Spanish coast. The scene is set for a drama of dangerous passion that threatens to tear apart the simple, tranquil life of the village forever.

Thunderstorm

1956

No artwork available
10.0

Peter Voss must recover eight Ming Dynasty horse statuettes from a gang of thieves, while dodging the detective on the case and trying to disrupt the fake marriage the gang set up to scam the young heiress, Mary de la Roche.

Peter Voss, Hero of the Day

1959

Slaves of Babylon poster
5.8

The Jews are taken from Jerusalem and made slaves by King Nebuchadnezzar. In the meantime Cyrus, king of the Persians, who has been living as a shepherd, is proclaimed king and defeats Nebuchadnezzar.

Slaves of Babylon

1953

The Happy Time poster
6.5

A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.

The Happy Time

1952

1940s · 5 titles

Up in Arms poster
5.8

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Up in Arms

1944

Tarzan and the Mermaids poster
6.0

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.

Tarzan and the Mermaids

1948

Green Dolphin Street poster
6.3

Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.

Green Dolphin Street

1947

Club Havana poster
5.9

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

Club Havana

1945

The Rock of Souls poster
6.2

The love between María Ángela and Fernando is impossible because there's an ancient history of hate between their families. His father killed hers, and other family members have killed each other for years. When María Ángela's grandfather finds she's in love with Fernando, he frames the young man and forces her to marry Manuel. Maria Ángela finds that Manuel doesn't love her and together plan her escape with Fernando. But things go wrong and the lovers find their destiny in The Spirit's Canyon.

The Rock of Souls

1943

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