Survivors also include her children Kathy, Rouben, Alexander and Stephen grandchildren Sophie, Ben, Emma and Hannah and Levi and sister Michal.Casino Royale is a 2006 spy film, the twenty-first in the Eon Productions James Bond series, and the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name. She reappeared as an actress on German television in the 1990s.įluent in five languages, Lavi lived in Asheville with her husband, Charles, since 1992. In the early 1970s, Lavi turned to singing and performed “Oh, wann kommst du?” (When Are You Coming?) and “ Willst du mit mihr geh’n?” (Do You Want to Go With Me?), which became big pop hits in Germany.

She played the pretentious actress Ilona Bergen in the Agatha Christie remake Ten Little Indians (1965) and also showed up rather nicely in Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), opposite Rod Taylor, and Catlow (1971), starring with Yul Brynner. Mabuse (1961), The Demon (1963) and The Whip and the Body (1963) before attracting attention as The Girl in writer-director Richard Brooks’ Lord Jim (1965), starring Peter O’Toole. Lavi (that’s her stage name it means “lioness” in Hebrew) had appeared in such European fare as The Return of Dr.

A decade later, they worked together in Vincente Minnelli’s Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), and she received a Golden Globe for most promising newcomer (female) for her work. Her other work in the comic genre included The Spy With a Cold Nose (1966), starring Lawrence Harvey, and Some Girls Do (1969).Īt her 10th birthday party, Lavi met Kirk Douglas, who was filming The Juggler in her town in what is now Israel, and arranged for her to study ballet. 'If You Want to Create Chaos, You Have to Plan How to Do It': 'THR Presents' Q&A With the Filmmakers of 'Seven Blessings'

The dark-haired, dark-eyed sex symbol then returned for another spy spoof, playing one of the “James Bonds,” aka The Detainer, in Casino Royale (1967) opposite David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress and Woody Allen. In The Silencers (1966), the first of the four Matt Helm movies that starred Dean Martin as the American superspy, Lavi played the femme-fatale Tina Batori she saves the hero from getting a dagger in the back while he is in the embrace of a gorgeous female enemy agent. Lavi died Wednesday at her home in Asheville, N.C., her family announced.

Daliah Lavi, the exotic beauty who starred in the swinging 1960s spy spoofs Casino Royale and The Silencers, has died.

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