Barbara Bain is currently directing plays in LA to rave reviews. Check out the info at her website barbarabain.net. Some really nice pics of her and her daughter Juliet, as well as other things she has done.
Just read on a website that Barbara Bain died yesterday, apparently in a car accident outside Los Angeles.
Has anybody heard more about this tragedy?
Looks like the Steven King hoax, updated. A quick google search showed nothing of the sort.
Reuters October 1, 2002
Barbara Bain Killed In Car Accident
Actress Barbara Bain, best known for her role in the 60’s spy drama “Mission: Impossible”, was killed in a two-car crash in Los Angeles yesterday.
Bain, a passenger in a car driven by a family friend, was pronounced dead on arrival at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. She was 70 years old.
Born Millicent Fogel in Chicago, Illinois, Bain’s portrayal of smooth super-spy Cinnamon Carter earned her fame and fortune. She earned three consecutive Emmys for her role. She also gained notoriety when she and then-husband Martin Landau left the acclaimed series over a contract dispute. She went on to star in the British science-fiction series Space:1999. Most recently she has been involved in regional California theater and charity work aimed at improving literacy.
Bain was the mother of two daughters with Landau: Juliette, an actress who starred in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, and Susan, a director. She and Landau were married for 37 years before divorcing in 1983. The two remained on good terms.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
No sign of it on Yahoo, which includes Reuters headlines.
Don't tell me - this going to turn out to be one of those urban legends - like how the little kid from the Life cereal commercial ate PopRocks and his head blew off.
Yeah, Bain dead in a car crash...and when they found her, there was a hook hanging on the door and Stairway to Heaven was playing on the stereo.
By the way, LilSue, are you the same LilSue who stiffed me on Ebay for some DVDs? If no, then sorry for asking. If yes, then all I can say is BAD DOG! NO BISCUIT! Appropriate feedback has been posted, and I've had a curse placed on you and your eternal offspring. Expect your hair to fall out and a nasty rash to break out on your nether-regions very shortly...
Look, I just posted what I was emailed, so everybody CHILL! And yes, that was me BarbF. I'm mailing your DVDs, I've just been busy.
It's been 3 months LilSue. There's busy, there's comatose and there's dead - which one are you?
Barb and Tim, see my comment about Steven King.
I have found NOTHING on Reuters.
True ScottN...how many times is it that King has died now? Four or five at least
To bring this back on topic does anyone know if Landau or Bain have appeared in any Steven King based stuff?
There are pictures of Barbara, Martin Landau and their daughters at a screening of Susan Landau's film "Wake" available on wireimage.com. They are dated OCTOBER 5. For a woman whose supposedly been dead for 4 days, Barbara looks amazingly good.
...Martin, on the other hand, does look like he's been dead 4 days ;)
Barbara Bain got in "News of the Weird" one time because her dog was killed by a particularly large edition of the L.A. Times that was thrown by a paperboy.
Happy Birthday, Barbara Bain!
In Starlog 325, August 2004, there is a picture of Barbara Bain next to her daughter Juliet. It's on Page 21. She looks pretty good.
There appears to have been an attempt made in the first year scripts to have Helena be the one most sensetive to alien influences and other phenomena, the one most in tune with the MUF vibes. Witness "MoLaD", where she harnesses the alien influnce provided by Lee Russell to undo catastrophe and make things right. "RATM" has her being used as a medium by an alien artificial intelligence. "AT,AT" shows her to be the only one noticing Alpha's duplication taking place and Regina's bad reaction to it, and Helena's alternate persona is calm and understanding when the time comes for her death. "Earthbound" has her in Captain Zantor's confidence and adapting to his suspended animation apparatus. "War Games" has Helena introduced to the alien's culture and understanding it, and retaining the only memory of it.
Unfortunately, this was not followed up on with any consistency. Koenig turned out to be sensetive to lots of alien influences as well, as were a few other characters, and Helena's insight into these intelligences and phenomena was not developed as part of her character. It would have fit well with the mysticism often touched uopn in that year.
Oops, that last post belongs in "characters", not "cast".
I saw Barbara at the market in West Hollywood last week looking very much alive. Ans Susie is a producer, not a director. Her husband Roy is the director (and writer).
An episode of Diagnosis Murder was on today, and I think they had collected a few old time actors together, Robert Culp, Robert Vaughn, Patrick Macnee and Barbara Bain.
Unless she's had surgery, Barbara looks pretty good for her age. Her stance didn't seem quite the same and you could see that she'd aged, but overall she looked pretty good considering the time that had passed.
Added Post, the IMDB lists here entry...playing the character of Cinnamon Carter.
It seems someone on the writing team has a sense of humour.