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Irina Demick

Acting Born Oct 16, 1936 Pommeuse, Seine-et-Marne, France 19 credits

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 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.

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Known for

Film

The Longest Day

as Janine Boitard
Film

Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

as Brigitte / Ingrid / Marlene / Françoise / Yvette / Betty
Film

The Sicilian Clan

as Jeanne Manalese, épouse d'Aldo
Film

The Visit

as Anya

Full filmography

  • The Longest Day (1962) as Janine Boitard
  • Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965) as Brigitte / Ingrid / Marlene / Françoise / Yvette / Betty
  • The Sicilian Clan (1969) as Jeanne Manalese, épouse d'Aldo
  • The Visit (1964) as Anya
  • Cloportes (1965) as Catherine Verdier, manager of an art gallery
  • The Females (1970) as Anna
  • Male Companion (1964) as Nicole
  • Tragic Ceremony (1972) as Bill's Mother
  • The Archangel (1969) as Signora Tarocchi Roda
  • OSS 117 Is Unleashed (1963) as Lucia
  • Naked Girl Killed in the Park (1972) as Magda Wallenberger
  • Prudence and the Pill (1968) as Elizabeth Brett
  • Tiffany Memorandum (1967) as Sylvie Meynard
  • Up from the Beach (1965) as Lili Rolland
  • Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (1970) as Arianna
  • Thunder from the West (1969) as Rada Kálmán
  • Julie la rousse (1959)
  • Goya: A Story of Solitude (1971) as Duchess of Alba
  • Once a Greek (1966) as Chloé Saloniki