Antoinette Bower, ‘Star Trek,’ ‘Twilight Zone’ and ‘Prom Night’ Actress, Dies at 93
Antoinette Bower, the German-born British actress best known to genre fans for her roles in The Twilight Zone and Star Trek, has died at the age of 93. She passed away on 30 April at a senior retirement home in the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles, according to her friend Carlotta Glackin. Her death marks the loss of a prolific character actress whose career spanned several decades of American and Canadian television and film.
Bower was born Antoinette Alexandra Jane Bower on 30 September 1932 in Baden-Baden, Germany, to a German mother and English father, and was educated in England before working with the United Nations' International Refugee Organization in the late 1940s. After moving to Canada in 1953 and joining the fledgling Canadian Broadcasting Corp., she relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1960s, appearing in Marlon Brando's Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). She portrayed Eve Norda in the 1963 Twilight Zone episode "Probe 7, Over and Out" and the catlike alien Sylvia in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Catspaw", while her film work included Superbeast (1972), the slasher Prom Night (1980) and The Evil That Men Do (1984). She also guest-starred on dozens of series, including Perry Mason, Bonanza, Mission: Impossible and Murder, She Wrote, and recurred on the Canadian drama Neon Rider from 1989 to 1992.
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Antoinette Bower was a German-born British actress who spent decades working in American and Canadian television and film. She became best known to science fiction fans for her appearances in classic television series during the 1960s, particularly The Twilight Zone and Star Trek, where she portrayed memorable characters in episodes that have remained popular with viewers. Though often cast in supporting roles, her prolific work across multiple genres established her as a familiar character actress whose career spanned from the early 1960s into the 1990s.
Bower's path to Hollywood was unconventional. After working with the United Nations' International Refugee Organization in the late 1940s, she moved to Canada in 1953 and worked in Canadian broadcasting before relocating to Los Angeles in the early 1960s. From there, she appeared in numerous television series including Perry Mason, Bonanza, Mission: Impossible and Murder, She Wrote, as well as feature films ranging from the 1962 epic Mutiny on the Bounty to horror films like Prom Night.
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