Barbara Bach

Barbara Bach

Born: August 27, 1947
in Queens, New York USA
Barbara Ann Goldbach (born August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model. She was born to Howard and Marjorie Goldbach in Queens, New York. Her father was a policeman. Barbara is the oldest of five children. She met her first husband Augusto Gregorini in New York while she worked as a model and he was visiting from Italy for a business trip in 1966. Barbara followed him to Italy to be with him. In 1968, they married. They had two children, Francesca (b. 1969) and Gian Andrea (b. 1972). During Gianni's birth, he had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, nearly choking him, and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, although a later operation improved his condition.

While in Italy, Barbara began her acting career, starting with the TV mini-series Odissea in 1968, where she was billed as Barbara Gregorini. Other roles followed in the giallo / horror films Black Belly of the Tarantula and Short Night of the Glass Dolls in 1971, the crime-thrillers Stateline Motel (1973) and Street Law (1974) and other films. In 1975, Barbara and Augusto Gregorini separated when she moved to Los Angeles, California to further her career. The couple would divorce in 1978 and share custody of their two children. As that was going on, Barbara received her most famous role as Russian secret agent Major Anya Amasova / Agent XXX in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She returned to Italian cinema in the late 70s for a supporting role in the sci-fi film The Humanoid (1979), starring roles in the horror films The Great Alligator and Screamers (1979) and more, which earned her the "Queen of the B Movies" label by some in the press. In 1979, Barbara was in consideration for the Tiffany Welles role, a replacement for Kate Jackson's character, in Charlie's Angels but ultimately lost out to Shelley Hack due to being deemed too attractive for the role. She then appeared in the comedy Up the Academy (1980), produced by her then-boyfriend Danton Rissner, and played a menaced TV reporter in the sleazy horror film The Unseen (1980).

The following year, Barbara met Ringo Starr on the set of Caveman (1981) in 1980, and they became a couple during the filming. Ringo and Barbara were on a holiday in December 1980 when her daughter called to inform them that John Lennon had been shot. Ringo and Barbara went to New York to console Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon. Ringo and Barbara married on April 27, 1981. By their own admission, the couple pretty much partied the 80s away and both entered a rehab clinic in Tucson, Arizona to straighten their lives out in 1988. By then, Barbara's show business career was over. She has since received her Master's degree in psychology from UCLA and focuses on charity work.

(Biography By: Jeannette, Pedro and Justin)

Movies for Barbara Bach...

Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Title: Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
Character: Self
Released: October 29, 2012
Type: Movie
Richard Hammond celebrates 50 years of Bond's amazing history with cars revealing the entertaining behind-the-scenes stories of the most iconic cars.
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Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 1
Title: Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 1
Released: December 3, 2010
Type: Movie
A sex in cinema retrospective that uncovers long-forgotten gems buried for years as well as some of the most significant films in the history of sex on the screen. Controversial and groundbreaking films, you’ll discover the most memorable and erotic scenes of the decade as well as insightful and controversial bios on each actress. In many cases it was their first and only nude appearance on film, making this a must-have reference guide to nudity in cinema.
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007 Stage Dedication
Title: 007 Stage Dedication
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Original archival footage of the opening of the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, England.
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Best Ever Bond
Title: Best Ever Bond
Character: Major Anya Amasova / Agent XXX (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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Bond Girls Are Forever
Title: Bond Girls Are Forever
Character: Major Anya Amasova (archive footage)
Released: November 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ursula Andress and Diamonds Are Forever's Jill St. John), the documentary traces the evolution of the typical James Bond heroine from decorative damsel in distress to gutsy (but still decorative) participant in the action.
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Title: Top Gear
Character: Major Anya Amasova / Agent XXX (archive footage)
Released: October 20, 2002
Type: TV
This fast-paced and stunt-filled motor show tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary, live up to their manufacturers' claims. The long-running show travels to locations around the world, performing extreme stunts and challenges to see what the featured cars are capable of doing. The current hosts are Paddy Mcguinness, Chris Harris and Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff.
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Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
Title: Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
Character: Anya Amasova (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn who playing Q in 17 James Bond films. This trailer with archief footage was created as tribute for SE dvd of The World Is Not Enough. His final movie before he died on 19 December 1999.
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One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Title: One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1988
Type: Movie
The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special.
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An Audience with Billy Connolly
Title: An Audience with Billy Connolly
Character: Self
Released: October 26, 1985
Type: Movie
Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celebrity audience.
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Give My Regards to Broad Street
Title: Give My Regards to Broad Street
Character: Journalist
Released: November 28, 1984
Type: Movie
When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording company to the lowlife Mr. Rath.
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Title: Princess Daisy
Character: Vanessa Valerian
Released: November 6, 1983
Type: TV
The lovely Daisy is the daughter of a Russian prince and an American movie star. After her parents are killed, she flees from her half-brother Ram. She fights her way to the top of the modeling profession and falls in love with a company president. But then, her half-brother arrives on the scene, ready to blackmail and destroy her.
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The Cooler
Title: The Cooler
Character: Head Prison Camp (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1982
Type: Movie
Ringo Starr is taken to prison where he goes through several musical sequences.
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The Queen Special
Title: The Queen Special
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Promotional special for the band's albums "The Game" and "Flash Gordon," featuring concert sequences, music videos, and celebrity cameos.
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Caveman
Title: Caveman
Character: Lana
Released: April 17, 1981
Type: Movie
Disgraced and cast out of his tribe for lusting after Lana, the mate of the tribe's head muscle man, Atouk stumbles along gathering other misfits and learning a bit about the world outside of his cave. Eventually he and friends Lar and Tala learn the secrets of fire, cooked meat, and how to defend themselves from the brutal, yet very stupid dinosaurs.
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The Unseen
Title: The Unseen
Character: Jennifer Fast
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement
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Up the Academy
Title: Up the Academy
Character: Bliss
Released: June 6, 1980
Type: Movie
Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.
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Title: Okay
Character: Self
Released: November 4, 1979
Type: TV
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The Great Alligator
Title: The Great Alligator
Character: Alice Brandt
Released: November 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.
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Jaguar Lives!
Title: Jaguar Lives!
Character: Anna Thompson
Released: August 9, 1979
Type: Movie
The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.
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The Humanoid
Title: The Humanoid
Character: Lady Agatha
Released: April 11, 1979
Type: Movie
Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr. Kraspin, who has invented a chemical capable of turning an ordinary person into a perfect soldier. They test this chemical on the pilot Golob, turning the unsuspecting victim into a mindless but indestructible automaton possessing superhuman strength. The people of Metropolis must somehow outwit Graal before he can create an army of these soldiers, or their planet will be destroyed.
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Island of the Fishmen
Title: Island of the Fishmen
Character: Amanda Marvin
Released: January 18, 1979
Type: Movie
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.
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Force 10 from Navarone
Title: Force 10 from Navarone
Character: Maritza
Released: August 16, 1978
Type: Movie
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
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Here We for Example...
Title: Here We for Example...
Character: Ludovica
Released: October 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published.
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The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
Title: The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
Character: Self
Released: July 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes of 'The Spy Who Loved Me', produced by The Open University.
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The Spy Who Loved Me
Title: The Spy Who Loved Me
Character: Major Anya Amasova
Released: July 7, 1977
Type: Movie
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
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Title: Saturday Night Live
Character: Self - Cameo (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: TV
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
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Legend of the Sea Wolf
Title: Legend of the Sea Wolf
Character: Maud Brewster
Released: August 4, 1975
Type: Movie
Italian production of Jack London's well-known, often filmed tale. Gentleman is forced to work in a seal-hunt ship ruled by a tyrannical captain. Violence rules but soon he learns to interact with the captain, just to find a thinking (and ill) man.
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Street Law
Title: Street Law
Character: Barbara
Released: September 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.
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Stateline Motel
Title: Stateline Motel
Character: Emily
Released: September 14, 1973
Type: Movie
After robbing a jewellery shop in Canada, two Americans arrange a meeting near the US borders in order to split the loot. One of them has an accident with his car on his way there and gets stuck in an isolated motel until his car is fixed. The owner of the motel, a sexy woman in her thirties, falls in love with him, but her suspicions about him begin to multiply, as the police arrive at the motel...
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Il maschio ruspante
Title: Il maschio ruspante
Character: Rema
Released: August 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Romulus, a rough but genuine country man, finds, on the occasion of a religious festival, a girl, Rema, already his kindergarten companion. In love with her since then, he welcomes with joy the invitation to follow her to Rome, convinced that the young woman wants to marry him.
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The Sensuous Sicilian
Title: The Sensuous Sicilian
Character: Anna, nipote del farmacista
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is on his deathbed, Paolo learns of syphilis in the family and something of the curse of dissolution. Some years later, he resolves to marry Katrina, the pure daughter of the woman he should have married. He wants her purity to redeem him so he can make something of his life. But is it too late?
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A Little Sun in Cold Water
Title: A Little Sun in Cold Water
Character: Héloïse / Elvire
Released: October 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman. Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles' offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie suddenly disappears from Gilles' life...
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Short Night of Glass Dolls
Title: Short Night of Glass Dolls
Character: Mira Svoboda
Released: October 28, 1971
Type: Movie
An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
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The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Title: The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Character: Jenny
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
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My Father Monsignor
Title: My Father Monsignor
Character: Chiara
Released: May 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Against the backdrop of the Unification of Italy, two men have the dream of being recognized by their respective, illustrious, fathers: a bishop and the King.
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Odissea
Title: Odissea
Character: Nausicaa
Released: March 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.
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Title: The Odyssey
Character: Nausicaa
Released: March 24, 1968
Type: TV
Italian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.