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Catherine Schell

a.k.a.

Catherina Schell von Bauschlott
Catherina von Schell
CS

Who

An actress who played two separate characters, one in each season.

Roles

Servant of the Guardian of Piri in an episode of Year One of Space: 1999.
Maya, an alien welcomed as member of Alpha in Year Two of Space: 1999. One of her best known roles.

Biography

Catherine Schell was born Catherina Schell von Bauschlott, to a baron(?) in Hungary, before her family escaped the Communist takeover, and renounced their titles (on emigrating to the U.S.), when she was only a few years old. She grew up in the United States and later Munich, then went into acting, primarily in British productions, but also other (mostly European) productions. Met William Marlow^, an actor "Amsterdam Affair" (1968 movie), and they later married (and divorced). She was initially known as Catherina von Schell, before changing it to Catherine Schell. She is probably best known for roles as Maya in Space: 1999, and as Lady Litton in "Return of the Pink Panther." After three decades in the movies and television, she (mostly) retired from acting to write and to run a bed and breakfast in the French countryside, with her second husband (he died in 2006 or so).

Statements

2010/02/03: Announcement from Journey to Where con's organizers that she is scheduled to appear as a Guest of Honor at that convention. This did not work out in the end, however.

Notes

Attended her first science fiction convention, as a Guest of Honor, at Main Mission: 2000, in New York City.
Confirmed a booking to make a guest appearance at this show in Birmingham (UK), apparently on 24/25 November 2007: Memorabilia, but withdrew a few weeks before.
Catherine Schell Website (see Links) indicates "Catherine will be appearing at Memorabilia 29th and 30th March" apparently in 2009. The Editor could not confirm this at the Memorabilia website as of 2008/12/19).
Had an official fan club (Catherine Schell Career Shots?) starting in the mid-1980's (based in Germany but English-language), which for a number of years published a periodical fanzine called Catherine Schell Career Shots. Later, in the 1990's, the club was renamed Catherine Schell Information Service (CSIS), providing means of obtaining photos or autographs, and sometimes recordings of interviews carried out by the club's organizer (Jovan Evermann). The CSIS moved part of its presence to the web on 2005/02/28. Please see the first of the Links below, for more detail on this whole point.