| Although best known for her serious
dramatic roles in East of Eden, War and Remembrance adn
Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman, Jane Seymour is no stranger
to the world of fantasy and science fiction as this selection
of her earlier roles prove. |
Live and Let Die (1973) |
One of Jane's earlies film roles, was as "Bond girl" Solitaire
in Roger Moore's first 007 film, who was dragged through
an opium field, tied up ready to be fed to the sharks
by a very unhappy Yaphet Kotto, and seduced by Moore's
smooth talking secret agent before presumably getting
the brush- off once the film was over |
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977)
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| In the final entry to the Ray Harryhausen Sinbad films,
Jane played Princess Farah, whose brother has been magically
turned into a baboon. After encountering numerous stop-motion
animation horrors, and a wonderful performance by Patrick
Troughton, she ends up married to John Wayne's son Gary
in the title role. |
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Battlestar Galactica (1978) |
Jane plays Serina, the love interest of Richard Hatch's
Captain Apollo in teh first five hours of the original
series, at the time the most expensive TV show to air,
with a budget of $1m per episode. Although the character
was originally intended to die from illness at the end
of the pilot, she survived only to be killed by the Cylons
two episodes later, thereby allowing numberous 70s starlets
to swoon over Hatch in future episodes. |
Somewhere in Time (1980) |
In one of Jane's favorite movies, (helmed by future
Smallville director Jeannot Swarz), she plays Elise McKenna,
the object of adoration of Christopher Reeve's Richard
Collier, despite the fact that there is a 70 year gap
between them- not in age but in time.
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The Phantom of the Opera (1983) |
Forget Andrew Lloyd Webber and Joel Schumacher's over the
top operatic antics and search out this tv movie in which
Jane plays a dual role as the Phantom's former wife and
the object of his macabre affections, with Maximilian
Schell as one of the scariest Phantoms ever to grace
the small screen. |
