Gorgeous and appealing brunette knockout Herta-Maria Perschy was born on September 23, 1938 in Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria. Maria moved to Vienna at age 17 to study acting at the prestigious Max Reinhardt Seminar. After finishing her education in Vienna, Perschy moved to Germany for further training and began her career acting in German comedies in the mid 50s (her teacher Suzi Nicoletta helped Perschy get a contract at the Bavaria Film Studios). She went on to act in an eclectic array of movies in such diverse genres as drama, horror, Western, and action/adventure; said movies were made all over the world in Spain, Italy, France, Great Britain, and Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Maria was usually cast in sexpot roles in her English language films. Moreover, Perschy was nominated for the Golden Laurel Award for Top Female New Face in 1964. In 1971 Maria suffered a burn injury while acting in a movie in Spain; she underwent several operations for this injury and then resumed her career. In 1977 Perschy resided in Los Angeles and was married to a writer who committed suicide in 1983. In 1985 she moved back to her native Austria and continued to act in both plays and TV series. Maria died from cancer at age 66 on December 3, 2004; she was married twice and was survived by a daughter.
Returning to Europe in the mid-1960s, she was featured in a number of Austrian and German TV series in the 1990s.Austrian leading lady who appeared in sexy European films during the late 1950s before making an ill-fated go of it in Hollywood the following decade, co-starring with Montgomery Clift in the intense biopic Freud (1962), Rock Hudson in the mild comedy Man's Favorite Sport? (1964) and Cliff Robertson in the thoroughly routine WWII film 633 Squadron (1964).
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633 Squadron has enjoyed an unqualified string of successes. Their luck changes when they are assigned to bomb a German rocket fuel plant, in Norway which is guarded by heavy anti-aircraft defences, and the plant is considered bomb-proof. Their nearly impossible mission is further complicated by a German air raid, the difficult approach to the target and the capture and torture of the underground leader who is assisting the squadron.
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