Barbara Bach
Barbara Ann Goldbach (born August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model. She was born to Howard and Marjorie Goldbach in Queens, New York. Her father was a policeman. Barbara is the oldest of five children. She met her first husband Augusto Gregorini in New York while she worked as a model and he was visiting from Italy for a business trip in 1966. Barbara followed him to Italy to be with him. In 1968, they married. They had two children, Francesca (b. 1969) and Gian Andrea (b. 1972). During Gianni's birth, he had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, nearly choking him, and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, although a later operation improved his condition.
While in Italy, Barbara began her acting career, starting with the TV mini-series Odissea in 1968, where she was billed as Barbara Gregorini. Other roles followed in the giallo / horror films Black Belly of the Tarantula and Short Night of the Glass Dolls in 1971, the crime-thrillers Stateline Motel (1973) and Street Law (1974) and other films. In 1975, Barbara and Augusto Gregorini separated when she moved to Los Angeles, California to further her career. The couple would divorce in 1978 and share custody of their two children. As that was going on, Barbara received her most famous role as Russian secret agent Major Anya Amasova / Agent XXX in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She returned to Italian cinema in the late 70s for a supporting role in the sci-fi film The Humanoid (1979), starring roles in the horror films The Great Alligator and Screamers (1979) and more, which earned her the "Queen of the B Movies" label by some in the press. In 1979, Barbara was in consideration for the Tiffany Welles role, a replacement for Kate Jackson's character, in Charlie's Angels but ultimately lost out to Shelley Hack due to being deemed too attractive for the role. She then appeared in the comedy Up the Academy (1980), produced by her then-boyfriend Danton Rissner, and played a menaced TV reporter in the sleazy horror film The Unseen (1980).
The following year, Barbara met Ringo Starr on the set of Caveman (1981) in 1980, and they became a couple during the filming. Ringo and Barbara were on a holiday in December 1980 when her daughter called to inform them that John Lennon had been shot. Ringo and Barbara went to New York to console Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon. Ringo and Barbara married on April 27, 1981. By their own admission, the couple pretty much partied the 80s away and both entered a rehab clinic in Tucson, Arizona to straighten their lives out in 1988. By then, Barbara's show business career was over. She has since received her Master's degree in psychology from UCLA and focuses on charity work.
(Biography By: Jeannette, Pedro and Justin)
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.123 |
Birthday | 1947-08-27 |
Place of Birth | Queens, New York USA |
Also Known As | Barbara Ann Goldbach, |
1977
The Spy Who Loved Me
6.794/1958
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as Jame...
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The Spy Who Loved Me
1985
An Audience with Billy Connolly
8.4/18
Billy Connolly delivers his special brand of stand-up comedy and abrasive humour in front of a celebrity audience.
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An Audience with Billy Connolly
1971
The Black Belly of the Tarantula
6.083/84
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
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The Black Belly of the Tarantula
1980
Up the Academy
4.7/27
Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how t...
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Up the Academy
2002
Bond Girls Are Forever
5.76/25
Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ur...
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Bond Girls Are Forever
1979
Island of the Fishmen
5.6/71
After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a str...
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Island of the Fishmen
1984
Give My Regards to Broad Street
4.7/19
When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording...
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Give My Regards to Broad Street
1980
The Unseen
4.9/54
A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement
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1968
Odissea
7.7/23
Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.
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Odissea
1979
The Great Alligator
4.4/41
Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.
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The Great Alligator
1971
Short Night of Glass Dolls
6.8/78
An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
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Short Night of Glass Dolls
1978
Force 10 from Navarone
6.2/297
World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.
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1981
Caveman
6.519/155
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Caveman
1977
Here We for Example...
5.303/38
Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes...
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Here We for Example...
1974
Street Law
6.7/40
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand,...
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1979
The Humanoid
3.7/27
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1979
Jaguar Lives!
4/11
The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.
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Jaguar Lives!
1975
Legend of the Sea Wolf
2.3/4
Italian production of Jack London's well-known, often filmed tale. Gentleman is forced to work in a seal-hunt ship ruled by a tyrannical captain. Viol...
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Legend of the Sea Wolf
1971
My Father Monsignor
6/2
Against the backdrop of the Unification of Italy, two men have the dream of being recognized by their respective, illustrious, fathers: a bishop and t...
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My Father Monsignor
1988
One More Audience with Dame Edna Everage
0/0
The gloriously glamorous Dame Edna entertains a celebrity audience in this 1988 special.
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1973
Stateline Motel
5.2/13
After robbing a jewellery shop in Canada, two Americans arrange a meeting near the US borders in order to split the loot. One of them has an accident...
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Stateline Motel
1973
Il maschio ruspante
5/1
Romulus, a rough but genuine country man, finds, on the occasion of a religious festival, a girl, Rema, already his kindergarten companion. In love wi...
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Il maschio ruspante
2002
Best Ever Bond
5/4
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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1971
A Little Sun in Cold Water
5.2/6
Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfrien...
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A Little Sun in Cold Water
2004
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
4.6/29
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1977
The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
8/2
Behind the scenes of 'The Spy Who Loved Me', produced by The Open University.
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The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me'
1973
The Sensual Man
6.2/9
The Catanese baron Paolo Castorini leaves the closed Sicilian environment and moves to Rome where he enters into erotic relationships with women of al...
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The Sensual Man
1982
The Cooler
5/1
Ringo Starr is taken to prison where he goes through several musical sequences.
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The Cooler
1981
The Queen Special
0/0
Promotional special for the band's albums "The Game" and "Flash Gordon," featuring concert sequences, music videos, and celebrity cameos.
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The Queen Special
2012
Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
6.2/3
Richard Hammond celebrates 50 years of Bond's amazing history with cars revealing the entertaining behind-the-scenes stories of the most iconic cars.
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Top Gear: 50 Years of Bond Cars
2000
Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
6/2
Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn who playing Q in 17 James Bond films. This trailer with archief footage was created as tribute for SE dvd of The World Is...
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Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
2006
007 Stage Dedication
4.7/3
Original archival footage of the opening of the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, England.
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2010
Celebrity Nude Revue: The Saucy 70's Volume 1
7/4
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