Irina Demick
Born
16 October 1936 (89)
Place of Birth
Pommeuse, Seine-et-Marne, France
Also known as
Irina Demich, Yrina Demik
Biography
Irina Demick (16 October 1936, Pommeuse, Seine-et-Marne - 8 October 2004), sometimes credited as Irina Demich was a French actress with a brief career in American films. Born Irina Dziemiach, apparently of Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, or Polish) and polish Jewish ancestry, in Pommeuse, Seine-et-Marne, she went to Paris and became a model. She made an appearance in a French film Julie la rousse (1959) and met producer Darryl F. Zanuck. Zanuck, whose lover she became, cast her in his epic producti...
Irina Demick (16 October 1936, Pommeuse, Seine-et-Marne - 8 October 2004), sometimes credited as Irina Demich was a French actress with a brief career in American films. Born Irina Dziemiach, apparently of Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, or Polish) and polish Jewish ancestry, in Pommeuse, Seine-et-Marne, she went to Paris and became a model. She made an appearance in a French film Julie la rousse (1959) and met producer Darryl F. Zanuck. Zanuck, whose lover she became, cast her in his epic production, The Longest Day as a French resistance fighter. Her career continued with roles in OSS se déchaine (1963), The Visit (1964), alongside Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn, Un monsieur de compagnie (1964) with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Pierre Cassel and Up from the Beach (1965) opposite Cliff Robertson and Red Buttons. In 1965, she played seven roles in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, each one of a different nationality. After making a few more films, Prudence and the Pill (1968), Le Clan des Siciliens (The Sicilian Clan), with Jean Gabin and Alain Delon mostly in France and Italy, Demick's career faded and came to a standstill in 1972. She died in Indianapolis, Indiana. Description above from the Wikipedia article Irina Demick, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography (19)
Tragic Ceremony
1972
Naked Girl Killed in the Park
1972
Goya: A Story of Solitude
1971
The Females
1970
Quella chiara notte d'ottobre
1970
The Sicilian Clan
1969
Thunder from the West
1969
The Archangel
1969
Prudence and the Pill
1968
Tiffany Memorandum
1967
Once a Greek
1966
Cloportes
1965
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965
Up from the Beach
1965
Male Companion
1964
The Visit
1964
OSS 117 Is Unleashed
1963
The Longest Day
1962
Julie la rousse
1959