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Aliza Gur

Aliza Gur is an Israeli actress and model who was crowned Miss Israel 1960 and played Vida in the 1963 James Bond film From Russia with Love.

born 1940Miss Israel 1960Vida in From Russia with LoveAmerican film and television roles

Born: 1 April 1940, Ramat Gan
Occupation: actor, television actor, beauty pageant contestant, model

Aliza Gur was born in 1940 in Ramat Gan

Aliza Gur was born Alizia Gross on 1 April 1940. Her parents had fled Nazi Germany and settled in Mandatory Palestine, where she and her brother were born.

She studied at the University of Haifa and made dresses to help pay her tuition. She served in the Israel Defense Forces and studied acting in Tel Aviv under Peter Fry.

Her first pageant win was as Miss Haifa. In 1960 she was crowned Miss Israel and reached the semifinals of Miss Universe in Miami Beach. That year she also toured America in support of Israeli Bonds.

She settled in California and worked in film and television. In 1963 she played Vida, a fighting gypsy, in From Russia with Love. She appeared on Perry Mason in 1965 and in films such as Kill a Dragon and Tarzan and the Jungle Boy, her last film, in 1968.

She married three times, in 1961, 1964 and 1978, and all three marriages ended in divorce. She has one son from her second marriage.