Ann Turkel
Turkel in Matt Helm, 1975
Occupation(s)Actress, model
Years active1968–present
Spouse
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(m. 1974; div. 1982)​

Ann Turkel is an American actress and former model, known for her collaborations with, and marriage to, actor Richard Harris.

Early life

Richard Harris and Ann Turkel in 1977

Born into a Jewish middle-class family and raised in Manhattan, Turkel had, by age 16, studied with both Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and Philip Burton at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy.[1][lower-alpha 1]

Career

In the late 1960s, she was photographed for American Vogue. Patrick Lichfield captured images of her on location in the United Kingdom, the Bahamas, and Italy during the early 1970s, and included them in his 1981 book The Most Beautiful Women.[4]

After a brief appearance in the film Paper Lion (1968), her first major role was in the 1974 film, 99 and 44/100% Dead starring her future husband Richard Harris, and they acted together in The Cassandra Crossing (1976), Golden Rendezvous (1977) and Ravagers (1979).

She portrayed comic strip heroine Modesty Blaise in a 1982 TV pilot.

Her other movie roles included Portrait of a Hitman (1979), with Jack Palance, and Humanoids from the Deep (1980), Deep Space (1988) and The Fear (1995). She also played the role of modeling agent and immortal Kristen in "Chivalry", a season four episode of Highlander: The Series.

Personal life

Turkel and Harris married in 1974 in Beverly Hills.[5] They were divorced in 1982. Despite their divorce, she and Harris remained good friends.[6][7]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRole
1968Paper LionSusan
197499 and 44/100% DeadBuffy
1976The Cassandra CrossingSusan
1977Golden RendezvousSusan Beresford
1979Portrait of a HitmanCathey
RavagersFaina
1980Humanoids from the DeepDr. Susan Drake
1988Deep SpaceCarla Sandbourn
1995The FearLeslie
1997Touch MeLinda
2006A-ListStar in bar
2006Deja VuTechnician

Television

YearTitleRoleNotes
1975Matt HelmMaggie Gantry"Pilot" episode
1978Greatest Heroes of the BibleDelilahMini-series episode "Samson & Delilah"
1981Death Ray 2000Sabina DorffmanTV movie
1982Modesty BlaiseModesty BlaiseTV movie
Massarati and the BrainDiane : WilmaTV movie
The Fall GuyShawna Ives / Kitty Ivesepisode "The Ives Have It"
1982, 1983Fantasy IslandRowena Haversham,
Leila Proctor		2 episodes
1983Matt HoustonMaureen Flandersepisode "Here's Another Fine Mess"
The Love BoatStacy Banksepisode "Vicki's Dilemma/Discount Romance/
Loser & Still Champ"
1983–1984, 1985Knight RiderAdrianne Margeaux / Adrianne St. Clair,
Bianca Morgan		S2/E9: "Soul Survivor" , S2/E18: "Goliath Returns" , S3/E20: "Knight in Retreat"
1984Masqueradeunnamedepisode "Caribbean Holiday"
The New Mike HammerGail Storrs-Raineyepisode "Catfight"
1985RiptideDenise McKeanepisode "Baxter and Boz"
Street HawkMelanie Ryan / Katherine Reeseepisode "Female of the Species"
Hollywood BeatLita"Pilot" episode
1986Night CourtJudge Eve Gardnerepisode "Contempt of Courting"
Scarecrow and Mrs. KingPam Jentryepisode "Three Little Spies"
Murder, She WroteBarbara Benningtonepisode "Stage Struck"
1987Worlds BeyondHelen Scottepisode "Captain Randolph"
1991White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma ToddGloria SwansonTV movie (uncredited)
Silk StalkingsRoxanne Dockweiler aka Roxy The Doxy"Pilot" episode
Chance of a LifetimeTippi van NordenTV movie
1992Down the Shoreunnamedepisode "Waiting for Aldo"
1994RoboCop: The SeriesLouiseepisode "What Money Can't Buy"
1995HighlanderKristinepisode "Chivalry"
1998The HungerWomanepisode "A River of Night's Dreaming"
1999Beyond Belief: Fact or FictionMrs. RicherdsAnthology series episode "E-Mail II/Blood Donor/Epitaph/Stiches in Time/Soldier"

Notes

  1. ↑ Although the cited source, Cliff Goodwin's Richard Harris biography, specifies "the Musical Theater Academy" as one of the two schools attended by Turkel, no such institution appears to have existed at this time, whereas the similarly named American Musical and Dramatic Academy was, in fact, co-founded and—until his retirement—directed by one of the two named teachers, Philip Burton.[2] (Similarly, the other named school, the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, was—aside from one four-year stretch—headed by the other named teacher, Sanford Meisner, for more than half a century.)[3]

References

  1. ↑ Goodwin, Cliff (2003). Behaving Badly: Richard Harris. London: Virgin Books. p. 162. ISBN 9781852279578.
  2. ↑ Pulsifer, Gary (7 February 1995). "Obituary: Philip Burton". The Guardian. p. T.017. ProQuest 294899457. Philip Burton helped to found the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, and served as its president and director.
  3. ↑ Flint, Peter B. (February 4, 1997). "Sanford Meisner, a Mentor Who Guided Actors and Directors Toward Truth, Dies at 91". The New York Times. p. 21. ProQuest 430748883. In later years, Mr. Meisner acted occasionally and also won plaudits for directing a 1955 revival of William Saroyan's Time of Your Life, but he concentrated on teaching, as the director of the Neighborhood Playhouse school from 1936 until 1959 and from 1964 through the 1980's.
  4. ↑ Lighfield, Patrick (1981). The Most Beautiful Women. London: Elm Tree. p. 54. ISBN 9780241105559.
  5. ↑ "People". Star Tribune. Minnesota, Minneapolis. June 8, 1974. p. 3. Retrieved September 25, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Grant, Hank (December 8, 1982). "Rambling Reporter". The Hollywood Reporter. p. 3. ProQuest 2587823561. And though the marriage was a failure, the divorce is proving a big success for Richard Harris and Ann Turkel. She's joined him in London for the West End bow of his "Camelot" and proving that two can live as cheaply as one in the same Savoy Hotel suite.
  7. ↑ Gritten, David (August 12, 1990). "RICHARD HARRIS RESURFACES". Los Angeles Times. p. 3. ProQuest 281260811. He now cast off from his life those elements that were hard to handle. Marriage went first: He divorced his second wife, actress Ann Turkel, in 1981. They remain friendly, but their marriage had been no more successful than his first.
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