Dana Wynter
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| Birth name | Dagmar Winter |
| Born | June 8, 1931 Berlin Germany) |
| Spouse(s) | Greg Bautzer |
Dana Wynter (born Dagmar Winter on June 8, 1931 in Berlin, Germany) was a popular, elegant and sleek actress from the 1950s on.
She began in films in 1951 by playing small roles, usually uncredited, in British films. One such was Lady Godiva Rides Again (1951) in which other future leading ladies, Kay Kendall, Diana Dors and Joan Collins played similar roles. She then moved on to American films made in England. She was seen in Knights of the Round Table (1953). In 1955, she was placed under contract by 20th Century Fox and by 1956, she co-starred with Kevin McCarthy, Larry Gates, and Carolyn Jones in what was to become perhaps her most famous role in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
By that time, she won the Golden Globe award for Most Promising Newcomer, a title she shared with Anita Ekberg and Victoria Shaw and graduated to playing major roles in major films. She starred opposite Robert Taylor in D-Day the Sixth of June (1956), alongside Rock Hudson and Sidney Poitier in Something of Value (1957), Mel Ferrer in Fräulein (1958), Robert Wagner in In Love and War (1958), James Cagney and Don Murray in Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) Kenneth More in Sink the Bismarck (1960) and Danny Kaye in On the Double (1961). She also played a leading role in The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) after which her work was mainly on television series such as The Man Who Never Was (1966-67) and an occasional cameo role as in Airport (1970).
She divorced her only husband, celebrity attorney Greg Bautzer in 1981 (by whom she had one child), and currently lives in the Republic of Ireland, outside Dublin.
