Antoinette Bower

Antoinette Bower is a British-American retired film, television and stage actress, whose career lasted nearly four decades.

Antoinette Bower
Bower as guest star on Adventures in Paradise, 1961
Born
Baden-Baden, Republic of Baden, Germany
Years active1954–1992
SpouseJames Francis Gill

Early years

Bower was born in Baden-Baden to a German mother and an English father. She lived in England, Vienna and Monte Carlo and was educated in England. She moved to Canada in 1953.[1]

Career

By 1954, Bower was working as a disc jockey at a radio station in Owen Sound, 190 kilometres (120 mi) northeast of Toronto.[2] She moved to Toronto to pursue acting, appearing in stage productions at the newly opened Crest Theatre,[2] the first in that city to consistently mount Canadian productions rather than touring productions from the US or Britain.[3]

Bower started her television career in Canada, first appearing in the CBC Television 1958 made-for-TV movie The Telltale Heart. Continuing with CBC Television productions, she appeared in an episode of The Unforeseen (1958), then had a recurring role in Hudson's Bay (1959), followed by an episode of Heritage (1960).

While visiting friends in Los Angeles, Bower landed her first role on an American series, appearing in the January 1961 episode "Night Cry", of the series Hong Kong. She continued with steady work on American television, amassing appearances on such programs as Ben Casey, The Fugitive, Combat!, Twelve O'Clock High, The Invaders, Mannix, Mission: Impossible (in 4 episodes), Perry Mason, The Big Valley, The Six Million Dollar Man, Kojak, Star Trek, Hogan's Heroes (in 3 different roles), Cannon, Columbo, Hawaii Five-O, The Twilight Zone and Murder, She Wrote. She appeared in the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).

In the 1970s and 1980s she appeared in the movies A Death of Innocence (1971), Die Sister, Die! (1972, released in 1978), Prom Night (1980), The Cowboy and the Ballerina (1984), The Evil That Men Do (1984) and Club Paradise (1986).

In 1979, Bower co-starred in four episodes of Mutual Radio Theater.[4]

Bower completed her nearly 40-year acting career where she first started, returning to Canada to join the main cast for the first three seasons (1989–1992) of the series Neon Rider, this time on the CTV Television Network.

Personal life

Reserved when discussing her private life in the press, Bower did state, in a 1968 interview with the Canadian magazine Weekend, that she was married to Texas-born artist James Francis Gill,[2] whom she met when he moved to Los Angeles in 1962.[5]

Selected TV and filmography

TV series - guest appearances

TV series - main cast

TV movie appearances

Film appearances

References
  1. Brown, Bill; Sebert, John (22 March 1958). "Antoinette's A Busy Girl". The Kingston Whig-Standard. Canada, Ontario, Kingston. p. 46. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  2. Roessing, Walter (2 November 1968). "Who IS That Girl, Anyway?". Weekend. Vol. 1968, no. 44. p. 81 – via Newspapers.com. [note: a weekly supplement in newspapers across Canada, the issue of Weekend scanned by Newspapers.com for this link was from The Ottawa Journal]
  3. Breon, Robin (16 December 2013) [2007-09-13]. "The Crest Theatre". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Historica Canada. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
  4. Smith, Ronald L. (8 March 2010). Horror Stars on Radio: The Broadcast Histories of 29 Chilling Hollywood Voices. McFarland. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-7864-5729-8. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  5. The Return of James Francis Gill. Washington Green Fine Art. 2019. p. 43. Retrieved 14 July 2023. Visiting England in 1965: My wife at the time – the English actress Antoinette Bower – had relatives in England, living close to London…
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