Antoinette Bower

Antoinette Bower is a British-American retired film, television and stage actress, whose career lasted nearly four decades.
Early years
Bower was born in Baden-Baden to a German mother and an English father. She lived in England, Vienna and Monte Carlo and was educated in England. She moved to Canada in 1953.
Career
By 1954, Bower was working as a disc jockey at a radio station in Owen Sound, northeast of Toronto. She moved to Toronto to pursue acting, appearing in stage productions at the newly opened Crest Theatre, the first in that city to consistently mount Canadian productions rather than touring productions from the US or Britain.
Bower started her television career in Canada, first appearing in the CBC Television 1958 made-for-TV movie The Telltale Heart. Continuing with CBC Television productions, she appeared in an episode of The Unforeseen (1958), then had a recurring role in Hudson's Bay (1959), followed by an episode of Heritage (1960).
While visiting friends in Los Angeles, Bower landed her first role on an American series, appearing in the January 1961 episode "Night Cry", of the series Hong Kong. She continued with steady work on American television, amassing appearances on such programs as Ben Casey, The Fugitive, Combat!, Twelve O'Clock High, The Invaders, Mannix, Mission: Impossible (in 4 episodes), Perry Mason, The Big Valley, The Six Million Dollar Man, Kojak, Star Trek, Hogan's Heroes (in 3 different roles), Cannon, Columbo, Hawaii Five-O, The Twilight Zone and Murder, She Wrote. She appeared in the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).
In the 1970s and 1980s she appeared in the movies A Death of Innocence (1971), Die Sister, Die! (1972, released in 1978), Prom Night (1980), The Cowboy and the Ballerina (1984), The Evil That Men Do (1984) and Club Paradise (1986).
In 1979, Bower co-starred in four episodes of Mutual Radio Theater.
Bower completed her nearly 40-year acting career where she first started, returning to Canada to join the main cast for the first three seasons (1989–1992) of the series Neon Rider, this time on the CTV Television Network.
Personal life
Reserved when discussing her private life in the press, Bower did state, in a 1968 interview with the Canadian magazine Weekend, that she was married to Texas-born artist James Francis Gill, whom she met when he moved to Los Angeles in 1962.
Selected TV and filmography
TV series - guest appearances
TV series - main cast
Neon Rider (1989–92, seasons 1–3)
TV movie appearances
The Telltale Heart (1958)
The Scorpio Letters (1967)
The Sunshine Patriot (1968)
See The Man Run (1971)
A Death of Innocence (1971)
First, You Cry (1978)
The Cowboy and the Ballerina (1984)
Film appearances
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 - uncredited)
The Mephisto Waltz (1971 - uncredited)
Superbeast (1972)
Die Sister, Die! (1972 - not released until 1978)
Prom Night (1980)
Blood Song (1982)
Time Walker (1982)
The Evil That Men Do (1984)
Club Paradise (1986)
References
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Living people
American television actresses
American film actresses
Immigrants to the United States
People from Baden-Baden
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American women
Year of birth missing (living people)