Films
Under the name Katherina von Schell she made her film debut in 1964 as the title character in the little-known German-language film Lana: Queen of the Amazons (German: "Lana - Königin der Amazonen").
In 1969, she appeared as Bond girl "Nancy" in the George Lazenby James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (credited as Catherina Von Schell), and as Clementine Taplin in the science fiction thriller Moon Zero Two.
In 1972, she appeared for the first time under the name Catherine Schell in Madame Sin, an American television movie starring Bette Davis. In 1975, she appeared opposite Peter Sellers in the comedy The Return of the Pink Panther as Lady Claudine Lytton. It is frequently claimed that her tendency to break into uncontrollable laughter at Sellers's antics as inspector Clouseau ruined many takes. The final print of the film repeatedly shows Schell attempting to stifle laughter at Sellers's behaviour, both at the Lytton residence and during the nightclub bar scene. Although these scenes are frequently proffered as classic examples of corpsing, it is worth noting that Schell has maintained in interviews that she considered it in character for Lady Lytton to be amused at Clouseau, whom she does not see as a serious threat (an attitude made explicit during her banter with her husband at the film's climax in her hotel room).
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