Camilla Sparv

Glamorous, svelte, ash blonde Camilla Margareta Sparv briefly courted the international limelight in the mid-60s. The stunning Swedish high-fashion model arrived in Hollywood in 1965, courtesy of Columbia Pictures. Following a third-billed role (Sister Constance) in Le dortoir des anges (1966), she was awarded a Golden Globe as Most Promising Newcomer in 1967 for her performance (Inger Knudson) opposite James Coburn in Un truand (1966). This seems to have set the tone for her subsequent casting as exotic European belles in several action films: the alluringly named Coco Duquette, mistress of chief antagonist Karl Malden in the Matt Helm thriller Bien joué Matt Helm (1966); kidnap victim Toni Peters and love interest of British spy Stephen Boyd in Services spéciaux, division K (1968); the spunky girlfriend of a U.S. marshal (Gregory Peck) searching for L'Or de Mackenna (1969); and the girl a champion skier (Robert Redford) has a brief fling with in La descente infernale (1969). After a six-year hiatus, Camilla segued into television guest roles, decorating a number of (mostly) crime shows, including Deux cent dollars plus les frais (1974), Hawaii police d'état (1968), Barnaby Jones (1973) and Simon et Simon (1981).

Camilla was married three times: her exes included former Paramount production chief Robert Evans and vacuum cleaner millionaire Herbert Hoover III. Her third husband (of 22 years) was hedge fund founder and real estate company owner Fredric Kolber (1939-2016).