What To Know
- Antoinette Bower, known for her roles in classic TV series like Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, died at age 93.
- Bower had a diverse career, appearing in numerous television shows and films from the 1960s through the early 1990s.
- She worked for the United Nations before moving to North America to pursue acting.
Antoinette Bower, a fixture of 1960s television and 1970s film, died earlier this year at age 93.
Bower died on April 30 at a senior retirement home in Los Angeles, according to her friend, Carlotta Glackin, as The Hollywood Reporter reported on Saturday, July 11.
Bower guest-starred in The Twilight Zone’s Season 5 episode “Probe 7, Over and Out” in 1963. As Richard Basehart played an astronaut stranded on an unfamiliar planet, Bower played an alien named Norda, who becomes the Eve to his Adam.
And in 1967, Bower shared the screen with William Shatner in the Star Trek Season 2 episode “Catspaw.” In that appearance, she played Sylvia, a shape-shifting alien with a mysterious power over matter.
In other memorable screen turns, Bower played the mother to Jamie Lee Curtis’ character in the 1980 slasher film Prom Night and the victim Charles Bronson’s character kidnaps in the 1984 thriller The Evil That Men Do.
Bower was born on September 30, 1932, in Baden-Baden, Germany, and educated in England, according to THR. Following World War II, she worked as a field language supervisor and welfare counselor for the United Nations’ International Refugee Organization, and later moved to Toronto, Ontario, where she worked with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Once she relocated to Los Angeles, Bower pursued her burgeoning acting career. Her TV credits also include guest-starring roles on Wagon Train, Perry Mason, Bonanza, Hawaii Five-O, Mission: Impossible, Columbo, The Six Million Dollar Man, and Murder: She Wrote.
Her last screen credit came in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when she recurred as on the Canadian TV drama Neon Rider.
Bower was also a carpenter who worked at Home Depot and constructed cabinets and bookshelves at her home in Los Angeles’ Beverly Glen neighborhood, Glackin told THR. Additionally, Glackin said that Bower was still receiving fan mail from Star Trek fans and that Shatner emailed his condolences after hearing of her death.