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person_profile-Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch Died at age: 82

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Raquel Welch

Date of Birth:

Sep 05, 1940

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Feb 15, 2023

Biography of

Raquel Welch

    An American actress and beauty icon, the statuesque Raquel Welch (September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was one of the most popular celebrities of the 1960s and 1970s. Born Raquel Tejada on September 5, 1940, in Chicago, she began taking dancing lessons as a child and by her teens was already winning beauty contests. After working as a waitress and model, Welch relocated to Hollywood in 1963; within three days, she had already landed a manager, Patrick Curtis, and soon they formed a promotions company, Curtwell Enterprises. After appearing in Life magazine, she began working on the ABC series Hollywood Palace, and in 1964 made her feature debut with an unbilled appearance in the Elvis Presley vehicle Roustabout. In 1965, she scored her first lead role in the pop musical A Swingin' Summer, resulting in a contract with 20th Century Fox, which cast her in the sci-fi hit Fantastic Voyage before loaning her to the British horror studio Hammer. There she starred in a 1967 remake of One Million Years B.C. Despite the publicity, Fox was clearly wary of her talents, and did not ask her to return to Hollywood; instead she remained in Europe, starring with Edward G. Robinson and Vittorio de Sica in 1968's The Biggest Bundle of Them All and with Monica Vitti and Claudia Cardinale in Le Fate.

    After appearing as Lust in Stanley Donen's seven-deadly-sins comedy Bedazzled, Welch finally returned to the U.S. She had roles in pictures like Bandolero! and Lady in Cement. Following in 1969 was 100 Rifles, a controversial Western which paired Welch with Jim Brown, and a year later she earned her first real starring role in the disastrous Myra Breckenridge. Her situation was unusual; she was certainly a star and a household name, yet few people ever went to see her movies -- neither 1971's Hannie Caulder nor the following year's Fuzz did anything to alter the dilemma. While both 1973's The Three Musketeers and its sequel The Four Musketeers were well received, she earned little credit for their success, and when the 1976 black comedy Mother, Jugs and Speed did not do as well as expected, Welch ended her Hollywood career.

    Welch instead turned to nightclubs, concert stages, and television; she also continued making films in Europe, including 1977's The Prince and the Pauper and L' Animal, co-starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. In 1980, she was tapped to star in Cannery Row, but was fired a month into production; she filed suit against MGM for damages, and was awarded 11 million dollars. Welch spent the 1980s focusing primarily on television productions like 1982's The Legend of Walks Far Woman and 1987's Right to Die, in which she delivered one of her strongest performances as a woman suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease. In 1994 Welch returned to cinema in the comedy The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult.

    Throughout the decade, she also made a number of infomercials and exercise videos, and in 1995 also starred in the nighttime soap opera CPW. In 1997, she took over for Julie Andrews in the Broadway musical Victor/Victoria.

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Raquel Welch

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Filmography of

Raquel Welch

Found 78 Movies in total

Jim Henson Idea Man

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2024

How to Be a Latin Lover

Celeste ( Actor )

... 2017

The Ultimate Legacy

Sally May Anderson ( Actor )

... 2015

And the Oscar Goes To...

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2014

House of Versace

Lucia ( Actor )

... 2013

... 2011

Forget About It

Christine DeLee ( Actor )

... 2006

... 2006

Los Angeles Plays Itself

Michele in Flareup (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2004

... 2003

The Kid Stays in the Picture

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2002

... 2002

... 2002

Tortilla Soup

Hortensia ( Actor )

... 2001

Legally Blonde

Mrs. Windham Vandermark ( Actor )

... 2001

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2001

... 2000

Get Bruce!

Self ( Actor )

... 1999

... 1999

What I Did for Love

Jacqueline ( Actor )

... 1998

Chairman of the Board

Grace Kosik ( Actor )

... 1998

Trailer Camp

(Archival) ( Actor )

... 1995

... 1995

... 1994

Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult

Raquel Welch (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1994

... 1994

The Flintstones: Hollyrock a Bye Baby

Shelly Millstone (voice) ( Actor )

... 1993

Torch Song

Paula Eastman ( Actor )

... 1993

Tainted Blood

Elizabeth Hayes ( Actor )

... 1993

... 1990

Trouble in Paradise

Rachel Baxley ( Actor )

... 1989

... 1988

Scandal in a Small Town

Leda Beth Vincent ( Actor )

... 1988

Right to Die

Emily Bauer ( Actor )

... 1987

... 1985

... 1985

... 1984

... 1981

Electric Blue 005

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1981

... 1980

The Legend of Walks Far Woman

Walks Far Woman ( Actor )

... 1980

... 1979

Animal

Jane Gardner ( Actor )

... 1977

The Prince and the Pauper

Lady Edith ( Actor )

... 1977

Mother, Jugs & Speed

Jugs ( Actor )

... 1976

... 1975

The Wild Party

Queenie ( Actor )

... 1975

The Four Musketeers

Constance de Bonancieux ( Actor )

... 1974

Really, Raquel

Herself ( Actor )

... 1974

The Three Musketeers

Constance de Bonancieux ( Actor )

... 1973

The Last of Sheila

Alice ( Actor )

... 1973

Bluebeard

Magdalena ( Actor )

... 1972

Kansas City Bomber

K.C. Carr ( Actor )

... 1972

Fuzz

Det. Eileen McHenry ( Actor )

... 1972

Hannie Caulder

Hannie Caulder ( Actor )

... 1971

Sin

Elena ( Actor )

... 1971

Myra Breckinridge

Myra Breckinridge ( Actor )

... 1970

Raquel!

Self ( Actor )

... 1970

... 1969

... 1969

The Magic Christian

Priestess of the Whip ( Actor )

... 1969

Flareup

Michele ( Actor )

... 1969

100 Rifles

Sarita ( Actor )

... 1969

Lady in Cement

Kit Forrest ( Actor )

... 1968

Bandolero!

Maria Stoner ( Actor )

... 1968

... 1968

Bedazzled

Lust/Lilian Lust ( Actor )

... 1967

Fathom

Fathom Harvill ( Actor )

... 1967

... 1967

One Million Years B.C.

Loana ( Actor )

... 1966

... 1966

Fantastic Voyage

Cora ( Actor )

... 1966

The Queens

Elena ( Actor )

... 1966

Do Not Disturb

Woman In Lobby (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1965

A Swingin' Summer

Jeri Mason ( Actor )

... 1965

Roustabout

College Girl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1964

A House Is Not a Home

Call Girl ( Actor )

... 1964