Dana Wynter appeared in film and television for more than 40 years, beginning in the 1950s.
22 Facts About Dana Wynter
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Dana Wynter later enrolled at South Africa's Rhodes University in 1949.
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Dana Wynter studied medicine while pursuing theatre, playing the blind girl in a school production of Through a Glass Darkly, a role in which she said she had been "terrible".
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Dana Wynter began her cinema career at age 20 in 1951, playing small roles, often uncredited, in British films.
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Dana Wynter was appearing in the play Hammersmith when an American agent told her he wanted to represent her.
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Dana Wynter was again uncredited when she played Morgan Le Fay's servant in the MGM film Knights of the Round Table.
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Dana Wynter left for New York on 5 November 1953, Guy Fawkes Day.
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Dana Wynter had more success in New York than in London.
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Dana Wynter appeared on the stage and on TV, where she had leading roles in Robert Montgomery Presents, Suspense, Studio One, a 1963 episode of The Virginian, and a 1965 episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, which won an Edgar Award.
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Dana Wynter moved to Hollywood, where in 1955 she was placed under contract by 20th Century Fox.
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Dana Wynter graduated to playing major roles in major films.
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Dana Wynter co-starred with Kevin McCarthy, Larry Gates, and Carolyn Jones, playing Becky Driscoll in the original film version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Dana Wynter then starred opposite Danny Kaye in On the Double, and George C Scott in The List of Adrian Messenger.
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Dana Wynter appeared as various British women in the ABC television series Twelve O'Clock High.
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Dana Wynter guest-starred in 1968 in The Invaders in the episode "The Captive", and in 1969, on the second version of The Donald O'Connor Show.
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Dana Wynter was on an episode of The Love Boat, "Sounds of Silence".
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Dana Wynter appeared in the Irish soap opera, Bracken.
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In 1956, Dana Wynter married celebrity divorce lawyer Greg Bautzer; they divorced in 1981.
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Dana Wynter, once referred to as Hollywood's "oasis of elegance", divided her time between her homes in California and Glendalough, County Wicklow, Ireland.
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Dana Wynter planned to make a film criticising the policy, which was to have been written by an American and filmed in Australia.
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Dana Wynter died on 5 May 2011 from congestive heart failure at the Ojai Valley Community Hospital's Continuing Care Center; she was 79 years old.
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Dana Wynter had suffered from heart disease in her later years, and was transferred from the hospital's intensive care unit earlier in the day.