Eva Pflug was a German

Germany

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 film and television actress, as well as a voice actress

Voice acting

Voice acting is the art of providing voices for animated characters and radio and audio dramas and comedy, as well as doing voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides.Performers are called...

. Born in Leipzig

Leipzig

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, she was well known for her work on the first German science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 television series, Raumpatrouille Orion, during the 1960s.

Life

Eva Pflug was born on June 12, 1929 in Leipzig. After her first film, The Council of the Gods (1950), she worked in Helmut Käutner's Schinderhannes with Curd Jürgens. In the first Edgar-Wallace film Der Frosch mit der Maske (1959), she had a small part as a night club singer. Three years later, Pflug was to be seen in in the Francis Durbridge cliffhanger Das Halstuch (1962). After that, she contributed to Tim Frazer - Der Fall Salinger (1964) and Wie ein Blitz.
Her first major part on a TV series was that of secretary Steffi in Slim Callaghan greift ein alongside Viktor de Kowa.

After guest roles in the TV series Die Fünfte Kolonne and Das Kriminalmuseum, Pflug was offered the role which made her career—Tamara Jagellovsk in the first German science-fiction TV series, Raumpatrouille Orion (1966). As Jagellovsk, she would become an icon of feminism.

After her role in Raumpatrouille, Pflug sporadically appeared in various television roles, such as in Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre, Dem Täter auf der Spur, and Ein Fall für Zwei. Eva Pflug started accepting more engagements; she travelled to Basel, München, Köln, Frankfurt, and Berlin, and festivals in Heppenheim, Jagsthausen, and Ettlingen.

This time, she played in more 'classical' main roles, among them Goethe's Gretchen in Faust and Martha in Kleist's Der zerbrochene Krug. For her role in Brecht's Mutter Courage in 1986, she was given the grand prize in the Bad Hersfelder Festival. Furthermore, she played Shaw's Die heilige Johanna, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Between 1980 and 1985, she appeared about 700 times on stage in popular comedies alongside Paul Hubschmid.

As a voice actress she dubbed Julie Christie (Dr. Zhivago), Ursula Andress (Casino Royale

Casino Royale (1967 film)

Casino Royale is a 1967 comedy spy film originally produced by Columbia Pictures starring an ensemble cast of directors and actors. It is set as a satire of the James Bond film series and the spy genre, and is loosely based on Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel.The film stars David Niven as the...

), Anne Bancroft (The Graduate

The Graduate

The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama motion picture directed by Mike Nichols. It is based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The screenplay was by Buck Henry, who makes a cameo appearance as a hotel clerk, and Calder...

), Eva Marie Saint (North by Northwest

North by Northwest

North by Northwest is a 1959 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, and featuring Leo G. Carroll and Martin Landau...

) and Susan Flannery (The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime. It premiered on March 23, 1987....

).

Pflug died on August 5, 2008 at her home in Grünwald, Bavaria

Grünwald, Bavaria

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.

External links

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