Description:
A native of Berlin, Maryland, Linda Harrison was Miss Berlin at 16, then a model in New York's Garment Center. Homesickness brought her back to Maryland, where she entered and won the state beauty pageant. During the finals in the Miss International contest (held in Long Beach, California), she was "spotted" by talent scout Mike Medavoy and presented at 20th Century-Fox. Throughout her acting years at Fox, and amidst movie roles in Planet of the Apes (1968), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) and others, she dated studio boss Richard D. Zanuck and married him in 1968. They were divorced in 1978, but she's appeared in three of his movies since then.
Birthday
July 26, 1945
Born In
Berlin, Maryland, USA
Alternative names
Augusta Summerland
Height
168 cm
Parents
Burbage Harrison
Trivia
She was to be the sheriff's (Roy Scheider) wife in Jaws (1975), which her husband Richard D. Zanuck was producing. However, Universal chief Sid Sheinberg wanted his own wife, Lorraine Gary, to have the part. Since Sheinberg was Zanuck's boss, Gary got it.
Quotes
[on her character "Nova" in Planet of the Apes (1968)] I felt very intuitive that my particular personality and nature were
like Nova. Automatically, I'd say that's about 80% of the part. The
director, the producer and the writer talked with me about her, and
they described her as "sub-human." We hadn't really had an actress play
"sub-human" before. Nova's not like Raquel Welch's character
in One Million Years B.C. (1966). She was more primitive because
of the apes' suppression. We played it by ear and experimented. It was
really a moment-to-moment thing.
