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Heather Menzies is a Actor Canadienne born on 3 december 1949 at Toronto (Canada)

Heather Menzies

Heather Menzies
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Nationality Canada
Birth 3 december 1949 at Toronto (Canada)
Death 24 december 2017 (at 68 years)

Heather Menzies Urich is a Canadian-born American actress best known for her roles as Louisa von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music and Jessica 6 in the TV series Logan's Run. In 2014, she was living in Park City, Utah. She has grandchildren.

Biography

Canadienne de naissance, sa famille déménage aux États-Unis lorsque Heather a onze ans. Dans les années soixante, elle est diplômée au Hollywood High School et a par la suite fréquenté l'Université du studio Falcon of the Arts dans le quartier d'Hollywood à Los Angeles.

Menzies fait son premier film en 1965 dans la comédie musicale La Mélodie du bonheur dans le rôle de Louisa von Trapp aux côtés de Julie Andrews et de Angela Cartwright.
Dans ce film populaire, elle joue le rôle d'une jeune fille de 13 ans à la fois espiègle et rêveuse, jouant notamment des tours avec sa sœur Brigitta (Angela Cartwright) aux gouvernantes de la maison en remplissant les lits d'araignées.

En 1966, elle enchaîne par un second long métrage appelé Hawaï, un film dramatique d'après une nouvelle de l'écrivain américain James A. Michener, réalisé par George Roy Hill avec dans les premiers rôles Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow et Richard Harris.

Menzies joue dans plusieurs films et aussi dans les séries télévisées des années 70 dont les populaires Bonanza, La croisière s'amuse, L'Homme qui valait trois milliards, Vegas et surtout, en tant qu'actrice principale, dans la série de science-fiction L'Âge de cristal durant quatorze épisodes dans le rôle de Jessica 6 auprès de Gregory Harrison et Donald Moffat respectivement dans les rôles de Logan 23 et de Rem, Logan et Jessica s'évadant de la Cité des Dômes à la recherche d'un lieu extérieur appelé « le Sanctuaire » et rencontrant dans leur périple l'androïde Rem.

Elle participe à la série télévisée auprès de son compagnon Robert Urich dans Vegas en 1978.

Elle a été l'épouse de Robert Urich du 21 novembre 1975 au 16 avril 2002, date de la mort de ce dernier d'une forme rare de cancer. Dès lors, Heather Menzies crée la Robert Urich Foundation et consacre tous ses efforts au financement et à la promotion de la recherche médicale, ainsi qu'à l'aide matérielle aux patients.

Au mois de novembre 2017, les médecins découvrent qu'elle est atteinte d'une tumeur au cerveau. Elle meurt un mois plus tard.

Best films

Piranha (1978)
(Actress)

Usually with

Joe Dante
Joe Dante
(1 films)
Robert Butler
Robert Butler
(2 films)
Robert Wise
Robert Wise
(1 films)
Zalman King
Zalman King
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Heather Menzies (14 films)

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Actress

Endangered Species, 1h33
Directed by Alan Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Peter Coyote, Gailard Sartain
Roles Susan
Rating57% 2.898232.898232.898232.898232.89823
Ruben Castle is a retired New York City cop and a recovering alcoholic. On vacation in Colorado, he becomes involved with a mysterious case of mutilated cattle as well as romantically involved with a female sheriff.
Captain America, 1h37
Directed by Rod Holcomb
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Reb Brown, Heather Menzies, Robin Mattson, June Dayton, Lance LeGault, Joseph Ruskin
Roles Dr. Wendy Day
Rating35% 1.765641.765641.765641.765641.76564
Steve Rogers is a character in contemporary times whose father was a 1940s government agent. The very patriotic attitude of Steve's father earned him the nickname Captain America, and his father is spoken of as having been murdered. Rogers, a former Marine now making what little living he makes as an artist, is inspired by this story to sketch a super-hero. After receiving potentially fatal injuries in an accident, he is administered an experimental chemical called the FLAG — Full Latent Ability Gain—formula (at one point referred to as a "super-steroid") which not only saves his life but also enhances his body with heightened strength and reflexes. These new abilities lead Dr. Simon Mills (Len Birman), the research biochemist and intelligence official who had told Rogers about his father, to recruit him and give Steve a costume based on his drawing. As Captain America, he also makes significant use of a specialized reconstruction of the van he has been driving, out the rear of which can be launched a modified motorcycle. Its functions include a rocket thrust for a fast start out of the van, a jet boost for increased speed, a setting to allow the bike to be ridden with less noise for stealthier movement and a hang glider structure which can allow the bike to glide to the ground with some forward momentum, although it must be jettisoned upon landing.
Piranha
Piranha (1978)
, 1h34
Directed by Joe Dante
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Comedy horror films
Actors Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller, Barbara Steele
Roles Maggie McKeown
Rating59% 2.950072.950072.950072.950072.95007
Two teenagers come upon an apparently abandoned military installation. They take advantage of what appears to be a swimming pool to skinny dip. The teenagers are attacked by an unseen force and disappear under the water. A light activates in the main building and a silhouetted figure investigates the screams, but is too late to help.
The Keegans, 1h30
Directed by John Badham
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Heather Menzies, Adam Roarke, Tom Clancy, Joan Leslie, Paul Shenar, Priscilla Pointer
Roles Brandy Keegan
Rating66% 3.3104953.3104953.3104953.3104953.310495
James Dean
James Dean (1976)
, 1h34
Directed by Robert Butler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Michael Brandon, Stephen McHattie, Brooke Adams, Heather Menzies, Candy Clark, Meg Foster
Roles Jan
Rating59% 2.9958052.9958052.9958052.9958052.995805
Une dramatisation de l'histoire du légendaire acteur de cinéma James Dean. L'écrivain du film, William Bast, avait logé avec Dean au début des années 50, lorsque les deux essayaient de se lancer dans des films en tant qu'acteurs.
Sssssss
Sssssss (1973)
, 1h35
Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about snakes, Reptile
Actors Dirk Benedict, Strother Martin, Heather Menzies, Reb Brown, Jack Ging, Richard B. Shull
Roles Kristina Stoner
Rating53% 2.699652.699652.699652.699652.69965
The movie begins with Dr. Carl Stoner (Martin) selling a mysterious creature in a crate to a carnival owner. It is later discovered that the creature is actually part-man/part-snake, the result of one of Stoner's bizarre experiments. College student David Blake (Benedict) is hired as an assistant by Stoner, an ophiologist. It transpires that Stoner's previous assistant had mysteriously left town without telling anyone (Stoner explains that he had gone back home to attend to a sick relative).
Outside In
Outside In (1972)
, 1h30
Directed by G. D. Spradlin, Allen Baron
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Heather Menzies, Darrell Larson, Logan Ramsey
Roles Chris
Rating61% 3.0621753.0621753.0621753.0621753.062175
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, 1h31
Directed by Robert Butler, Christopher Hibler, Arthur J. Vitarelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about education, Films about computing, Films about television, Comedy science fiction films, Children's films
Actors Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, Johnny Flynn, William Schallert, Alan Hewitt
Roles (uncredited)
Rating59% 2.9523552.9523552.9523552.9523552.952355
Dexter Reilly (Kurt Russell) and his friends attend small, private Medfield College, which cannot afford to buy a computer. The students persuade wealthy businessman A.J. Arno (Cesar Romero) to donate an old computer to the college. Arno is the secret head of a large illegal gambling ring, which used the computer for its operations.
Hail, Hero!, 1h40
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Douglas, Peter Strauss, John Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright, Deborah Winters, Charles Drake
Roles Molly Adams
Rating52% 2.619622.619622.619622.619622.61962
During the Vietnam War, college student Carl Dixon quits school and joins the Army in hopes of using love, not bullets, to combat the Viet Cong.
Hawaii
Hawaii (1966)
, 3h9
Directed by George Roy Hill, James Blue, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Julie Andrews, Max von Sydow, Gene Hackman, Jocelyne LaGarde, Richard Harris, Carroll O'Connor
Roles Mercy Bromley
Rating64% 3.2480353.2480353.2480353.2480353.248035
The story follows Prince Keoki Kanakoa, the Reverend Abner Hale and his wife Jerusha, who join the prince on mission to the Islands of Hawaii for the Calvinist church with the promise to make Kanakoa a minister. Upon their arrival to the islands, the ship stops in Lahaina, Maui before going on to Honolulu, Oahu where the main church has been established. There they are greeted by the aliʻi nui, Malama Kanakoa, Keoki's mother, who stops the Hales from traveling further when she demands Jerusha remain in Lahaina to teach her to write. Reverend Hale attempts to teach her of the Christian God first but she refuses until she, herself can write. Only after that will she listen to Abner's Christian teachings. As Hale learns, there is a serious difference between a destiny calling to him and the call to recognize the needs of others.
The Sound of Music, 2h54
Directed by Robert Wise, Richard Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Musical theatre, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Théâtre, Musical films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Children's films
Actors Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Bill Lee, Bill Lee, Richard Haydn
Roles Louisa von Trapp
Rating80% 4.0475354.0475354.0475354.0475354.047535
Maria is a free-spirited young Austrian woman studying to become a nun at Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg in 1938. Her love of music and the mountains, her youthful enthusiasm and imagination, and her lack of discipline cause some concern among the nuns. The Mother Abbess, believing Maria would be happier outside the abbey, sends her to the villa of retired naval officer Captain Georg von Trapp to be governess to his seven children—Liesl, Friedrich, Louisa, Kurt, Brigitta, Marta, and Gretl. The Captain has been raising his children alone using strict military discipline following the death of his first wife. At first, the children treat Maria as they did their former governesses—playing tricks on her as a way of gaining their father's attention. Maria responds with kindness and patience, and soon the children come to trust and respect her.