Dana Wynter, 79, who ran from the Pod People in the 1956 science-fiction classic “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” died Thursday in Ojai, Calif., of congestive heart failure, said her son.
Wynter, who starred in a number of television dramas in the 1960s, was best known for her role as Becky Driscoll in director Don Siegel’s paranoid film about townspeople being replaced by emotionless duplicates grown from plant-like pods.
Born in Germany, Wynter grew up in England and studied to be a doctor before turning to acting.
Gunter Sachs, 78, a German-born photographer best known for his playboy lifestyle and brief marriage to French actress Brigitte Bardot, committed suicide Saturday, his family said. He was suffering from an incurable degenerative disease, their statement said. Sachs was born into a wealthy industrialist family in 1932, and used his inheritance and business acumen to fund a glamorous lifestyle. He was married to Bardot from 1966 to 1969.
