Antoinette Power, the German-born British actress who starred in an episode similar to Adam and Eve The twilight zone She portrayed the seductive cat-like alien Sylvia for part of the film Star TrekHe died. She was 93 years old.
Power died April 30 at a retirement home for the elderly in Eagle Rock in Los Angeles, said her friend Carlotta Glackin — a niece of famed Golden Age actor Edward Everett Horton. Hollywood Reporter.
On the big screen, Bauer has received top awards for the Filipino horror film Superbeast (1972), she played Leslie Nielsen’s wife and mother of Jamie Lee Curtis in the classic slasher film Prom night (1980) and kidnapped by Charles Bronson in the action thriller The evil that men do (1984).
For three seasons (1989–1992), Fox recurred as Devlin, Winston Rickert’s colleague Dr. Michael Terry, on the Canadian television drama. Neon RiderThe film is set on a farm in British Columbia for troubled and abused teenagers.
On the Rod Serling by Ted Post The twilight zone The episode “Probe 7, Over and Out,” which premiered in November 1963 during the anthology show’s fifth and final season, portrayed the statuesque Eve Norda, a woman stranded on a distant planet. The only other person present is an astronaut named Adam Cook (Richard Basehart).
Bauer was also memorable as the evil Sylvia opposite Theo Marcuse as Kurup in season two Star Trek “Catspaw” episode that premiered in October 1967.
Antoinette Alexandra Jane Bauer was born to a German mother and an English father on September 30, 1932 in Baden-Baden, Germany.
Educated in England, she was a field language supervisor and social welfare consultant in the late 1940s with the United Nations Refugees International, which helped millions of people who were left homeless across Europe and Asia after World War II.
Power rejoined her family in Canada in 1953, and in Toronto she took a job with the fledgling Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where she worked in public affairs, wrote scripts and conducted live interviews. She also did some acting, appearing in the 1958 television film adaptation of The Last Man Tell-tale heart And in 1959 on the syndicated series Hudson Bay.
She visited Los Angeles and in the early 1960s decided to stay after landing an uncredited role in a Marlon Brando film. Rebellion against reward (1962) and guest star parts on shows such as Adventures in paradise, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Hong Kong, Wagon train, stir, Hawaiian eye and Perry Mason.
She stayed very busy during the early 1980s, making appearances Fight!, The man from uncle, Burke’s law, Wild West, I sweary, The fugitive, Invaders, Grand Valley, Bonanza, Manix, Hawaii Five-O, Be smart, Hogan Heroes, Mission: impossible, FBI, Colombo, Kojak and Murder, she wrote And in the 1983 miniseries Thistle birds.
She pretty much quit acting after her run on CTV Neon Rider.
About 10 years ago, Power completed a documentary about chocwagon racing in Canada, which she filmed, directed, edited and narrated after spending several summers with the participants.
Bauer, who studied carpentry at Santa Monica College, was a valued Home Depot employee who custom-built tall cabinets and bookshelves in her Beverly Glen home, Glacken noted.
She added that Bauer was still receiving a lot of fan letters from Star Trek Believers and that William Shatner emailed his condolences after learning of her death. (She was one of 20 or so women to kiss Captain Kirk on the show, according to this post.)
Power married Texas-born pop artist James Gill in 1963, but their marriage ended in divorce. She was predeceased by her half-brother Roger.
A celebration of life is scheduled for Sept. 26 in Pasadena.
