Samantha Eggar(1939-2025)
- Actress
- Soundtrack
One thing that never changed about her was her sharp sense of humour. Everything else did. Coming from England with an upper middle class accent and boarding school educated she now lives in a hidden away canyon in Los Angeles with her 2 children, Jenna and Nicholas and her partner, stuntman Dick Ziker (who coordinated the stunts in Charlies Angels).
She was previously married to American actor/producer Tom Stern in Britain in 1964 but divorced in 1970. After their marriage they went to America, she to make the film The Collector, for which she was Oscar nominated and Tom to pursue his own career, and rented a house in Benedict Canyon where Sharon Tate was later murdered. After The Collector, work kept being offered to her then she became pregnant and soon was on the celebrity circuit attending parties and premiers and making such films as Doctor Dolittle, Walk Don't Run and The Molly Maguires.
Around 1973, she retired and took pleasure in not having to get up at 5.30 and doing things around the house. Every year, though, she did some television for the educational channel then a TV series based on The King and I and a film for television. In 1976, she returned to England to appear in the film The Seven Per Cent Solution but was told off for speaking with an American accent. She found the money system strange and the fact that she had no memories to go back to.
She was previously married to American actor/producer Tom Stern in Britain in 1964 but divorced in 1970. After their marriage they went to America, she to make the film The Collector, for which she was Oscar nominated and Tom to pursue his own career, and rented a house in Benedict Canyon where Sharon Tate was later murdered. After The Collector, work kept being offered to her then she became pregnant and soon was on the celebrity circuit attending parties and premiers and making such films as Doctor Dolittle, Walk Don't Run and The Molly Maguires.
Around 1973, she retired and took pleasure in not having to get up at 5.30 and doing things around the house. Every year, though, she did some television for the educational channel then a TV series based on The King and I and a film for television. In 1976, she returned to England to appear in the film The Seven Per Cent Solution but was told off for speaking with an American accent. She found the money system strange and the fact that she had no memories to go back to.
In Memoriam: Stars We Lost in 2025
In Memoriam: Stars We Lost in 2025
We pay tribute to Diane Ladd, Diane Keaton, and more stars we lost this year.
