Britt Ekland Movies
In the earliest stages of her career, Swedish actress
Britt Ekland was "famous for being famous" as the wife of film comedian
Peter Sellers. She appeared in two Italian pictures before marrying
Sellers in 1963, and later co-starred with him in
After the Fox (1966) and
The Bobo (1967), and enjoyed good reviews for her role as a prim Quaker girl who inadvertently invented the strip-tease in
The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968). Most of
Ekland's subsequent films were low-budget action melodramas and leering sex comedies; she did acquit herself nicely, however, as James Bond's
vis-à-vis in
The Man With the Golden Gun (1974) and that year's cult thriller,
The Wicker Man.
Ekland will not likely be remembered for her cinematic triumphs, and chances are future generations will know her primarily from her brief alliance with
Sellers or from her tempestuous and well-documented private life, as recounted in her autobiography True Britt. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
