'Fantastic Voyage' and 'One Million Years B.C.' star Raquel Welch passes away at 82
Award-winning American actress Raquel Welch has died at the age of 82 following a short illness after a prolific career in Hollywood that included starring roles in a pair of classic science fiction and fantasy films with"Fantastic Voyage" and"One Million Years B.C.
Born in Chicago on September 5, 1940 as Jo Raquel Tejada, Welch was a theater arts major at San Diego State University prior to scoring small screen gigs on her way to larger fame. In 1966, her on-screen charisma and considerable sex appeal took Hollywood by storm and landed Welch major roles in two iconic 1966 feature films that still resonate with audiences todayFirst was director Richard Fleischer's science fiction fantasy adventure,"Fantastic Voyage.
Next was the Hammer Films/Seven Arts fantasy epic,"One Million Years B.C.," which was first released in the U.K. in December of 1966 before scoring a U.S. rollout the next year in a slightly edited form. Not exactly historically accurate, the prehistoric spectacle saw Welch playing Loana, a scantily-clad cavewoman of the Shell Tribe who hooks up with the banished Tumak of the Rock Tribe in a fight for survival amid angry marauding dinosaurs.
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