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Ahna Capri is a Actor American born on 6 july 1944 at Budapest (Hongrie)

Ahna Capri

Ahna Capri
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Birth name Anna Marie Nanasi
Nationality USA
Birth 6 july 1944 at Budapest (Hongrie)
Death 19 august 2010 (at 66 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Anna Marie Nanasi (July 6, 1944 – August 19, 2010), better known by her professional name Ahna Capri (also as "Anna Capri"), was a Budapest-born American film and television actress best known for her role as Tania (secretary of Han) in the classic martial-arts film Enter the Dragon.

Capri started her career as a child actress, appearing on such series as Father Knows Best, The Danny Thomas Show, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin and a recurring roll as Edie Westrope on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show in 1958. She made her film debut at the age of thirteen in Outlaw's Son. She appeared thereafter in more films and television series, including roles in two CBS westerns in 1959, as Dolly Cleary in "The Littlest Client" on Wanted: Dead or Alive, starring Steve McQueen, and as Debbie McCallin in "McCallin's Daughter" on Trackdown, with Robert Culp.

In 1962, she was cast in a recurring role as Mary Rose in the ABC/Warner Brothers sitcom, Room for One More, with Andrew Duggan, Peggy McCay, Tim Rooney, and Ronnie Dapo. She appeared on other ABC/WB series too, including Maverick, Sugarfoot, Cheyenne, Bronco, 77 Sunset Strip, The Invaders and Adam-12.

Later, she appeared in the westerns Branded, The Monroes, The Iron Horse, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Laredo, and The Wild Wild West. Her later dramatic roles included The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Twelve O'Clock High, The Invaders, Adam-12, Run for Your Life, The F.B.I., Banyon, Baretta, Banacek, Mannix, The Mod Squad, Police Story, Kojak, and Cannon.

In 1971, Capri played Linda Perry in two episodes of ABC's crime drama Dan August, starring Burt Reynolds. In 1972, she was cast in the film Payday, with Rip Torn in the lead role as a Country music singer in Alabama.

Ahna may be most best known for her role in the Bruce Lee film: Enter The Dragon.

On August 9, 2010, Capri was involved in a car accident in which a 5-ton truck collided with her car. After eleven days in a coma and on life support, she died on August 19 at the age of sixty-six.

Biography

Ahna Capri a fait ses débuts à 13 ans dans Outlaw's Son de Lesley Selander et a joué dans Father Knows Best et The Danny Thomas Show. Sa filmographie est faite de nombreux rôles dans des téléfilms et films américains jusqu'à la fin des années 70.

Best films

Enter the Dragon (1973)
(Actress)

Usually with

Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee
(1 films)
Roger Corman
Roger Corman
(1 films)
L. Q. Jones
L. Q. Jones
(1 films)
Yuen Biao
Yuen Biao
(1 films)
Sammo Hung
Sammo Hung
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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ahna Capri (14 films)

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Actress

The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, 1h50
Directed by John Badham
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Transport films, Baseball films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones, Stan Shaw, Tony Burton, Richard Pryor, Alvin Childress
Roles The Prostitute
Rating67% 3.3955853.3955853.3955853.3955853.395585
Tired of being treated like a slave by team owner Sallison Potter (Ted Ross), charismatic star pitcher Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams) steals a bunch of Negro League players away from their teams, including catcher/slugger Leon Carter (James Earl Jones) and Charlie Snow (Richard Pryor), a player forever scheming to break into the segregated Major League Baseball of the 1930s by masquerading as first a Cuban ("Carlos Nevada"), then a Native American ("Chief Takahoma"). They take to the road, barnstorming through small Midwestern towns, playing the local teams to make ends meet. One of the opposing players, 'Esquire' Joe Calloway (Stan Shaw), is so good that they recruit him.
Enter the Dragon, 1h38
Directed by Bruce Lee, Robert Clouse
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Kung fu, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films
Actors Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly, John Saxon, Ahna Capri, Kien Shih, Robert Wall
Roles Tania
Rating75% 3.798283.798283.798283.798283.79828
Lee (Bruce Lee) is a Shaolin martial artist from Hong Kong who possesses great philosophical insight into martial arts as well as physical prowess. He receives an invitation to a martial arts competition on an island organised by the mysterious Mr. Han (Shih Kien). Lee learns from his Sifu (teacher) that Han was also once a Shaolin student, but had been expelled from their order for abusing their code of conduct.
Payday
Payday (1973)
, 2h3
Directed by Daryl Duke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians
Actors Rip Torn, Ahna Capri, Michael C. Gwynne, Jeff Morris, Cliff Emmich, Sonny Shroyer
Roles Mayleen Travis
Rating70% 3.537553.537553.537553.537553.53755
Maury Dann (Rip Torn) is a successful country-western singer who travels around the Southern states in a Cadillac and gets himself into all sorts of adventures.
Piranha
Piranha (1972)
, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror
Actors William Smith, Ahna Capri, Peter Brown, Thomas William "Tom" Simcox
Roles Terri Greene
Rating28% 1.434081.434081.434081.434081.43408
Art Greene (Tom Simcox) and his sister Terry (Ahna Capri) are a couple of wildlife photographers exploring the Amazon region with their American guide Jim Pendrake (Peter Brown). They stumble across a deadly predator when they meet Caribe (William Smith), a homicidal maniac whose hobbies include tracking and hunting human prey.
The Brotherhood of Satan, 1h32
Directed by Bernard McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Strother Martin, L. Q. Jones, Charles Wilbur Bateman, Ahna Capri, Charles Robinson, Alvy Moore
Roles Nicky
Rating55% 2.7546852.7546852.7546852.7546852.754685
Ben (Charles Bateman), his girlfriend Nicky (Ahna Capri), and Ben's young daughter K.T. (Geri Reischl) are driving through the American Southwest to K.T.'s grandmother's house for a birthday celebration. They come upon an automobile accident in the town of Hillsboro, and when they attempt to report it, they meet the local sheriff, (L. Q. Jones), his assistant Tobey (Alvy Moore), Doc Duncan (Strother Martin), and a priest (Charles Robinson). These locals explain the unusual events in the town which involve several murders, the inability of the people to leave the town, and that many of the local children have gone missing.
Darker Than Amber, 1h36
Directed by Robert Clouse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Actors Rod Taylor, Theodore Bikel, Ahna Capri, William Smith, Suzy Kendall, Jane Russell
Roles Del
Rating61% 3.0519553.0519553.0519553.0519553.051955
The film is faithful to the plot of the novel. McGee and his close friend Meyer are fishing underneath a bridge when a young woman (a former prostitute named Vangie) is thrown off the bridge, weighted with a cement block around her ankles. McGee dives in and saves her, and is surprised when she insists that he not contact the police. She admits that she was nearly killed due to her involvement in a prostitution ring and a murder scheme. The trio travels to Nassau to investigate her would-be murderers, who work in male/female pairs to lure rich, lonely men traveling on cruise ships into their confidence, rob them, and then toss them overboard to drown. McGee and Meyer set out to dismantle the operation.
One of Our Spies Is Missing, 1h31
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Themes Spy films
Actors Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Maurice Evans, Yvonne Craig, Vera Miles
Roles Do Do (as Anna Capri)
Rating55% 2.7604652.7604652.7604652.7604652.760465
Illya Kuryakin is investigating the theft of cats in the Soho area of London, and Napoleon Solo is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of the famous, suddenly youthful appearing, and now missing 83-year-old biologist Benjamin Lancer. Solo contacts Lancer’s daughter Lorelei, a model at the Paris salon of Madame Raine De Sala. De Sala orders her associate Olga and another model Do Do to make sure that Lorelei does not speak to Solo.
The Girls on the Beach, 1h20
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Actors Noreen Corcoran, Linda Marshall, Ahna Capri, Aron Kincaid, Sheila Bromley, Lana Wood
Roles Arlene (as Anna Capri)
Rating51% 2.5692352.5692352.5692352.5692352.569235
Kisses for My President, 1h53
Directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Political films
Actors Fred MacMurray, Polly Bergen, Eli Wallach, Arlene Dahl, Edward Andrews, William Walker
Roles Gloria McCloud
Rating55% 2.7572952.7572952.7572952.7572952.757295
The United States elects its first female President in the form of Leslie McCloud. She and her first gentleman, Thad, move into the White House with their daughter Gloria and son Peter.
Critic's Choice, 1h40
Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films based on plays
Actors Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Rip Torn, Marilyn Maxwell, Jessie Royce Landis, Marie Windsor
Roles Daughter (uncredited)
Rating57% 2.851832.851832.851832.851832.85183
Parker Ballantine is a theatrical critic, busily praising or disparaging the shows of Broadway. His wife Angela is feeling useless and restless, so she writes a play about her mother and sisters.
Outlaw's Son, 1h28
Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Dane Clark, Ben Cooper, Lori Nelson, Ellen Drew, Buddy Joe Hooker, Ahna Capri
Roles Amy Wentworth as a child
Rating60% 3.048213.048213.048213.048213.04821
This script must be run from the command line
The Opposite Sex, 1h57
Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Jeff Richards, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller
Roles Child (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.0469353.0469353.0469353.0469353.046935
The story concerns Kay Hilliard (June Allyson), a former nightclub singer who discovers her husband Steven (Leslie Nielsen) is having an affair with showgirl Crystal Allen (Joan Collins). Kay is the last to find out among her circle of gossiping girlfriends. Kay travels to Reno to divorce from Steve who then marries Crystal, but when Kay finds out that Crystal isn't true to Steve she starts fighting to win her ex-husband back.