Known for Acting
Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar (March 5, 1939 — October 15, 2025) was an Oscar nominated English film, television and voice actress who appeared in Doctor Dolittle.
Born
March 5, 1939
Died
October 15, 2025 (age 86)
Birthplace
Hampstead, London, England, UK
Filmography
53 films, 34 shows


Birth Pains
2015 · 33m
country: United States
Fun thirty-three minute documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's THE BROOD features interviews with star Samantha Eggar, executive producer Pierre David, special effects artists Rick Baker and Joe Blasco as well as assistant director John Board.


Disney Heroes Volume 1
2005
country: United States


The American Nightmare
2000 · 1h 13m
country: United States
An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.


The Astronaut's Wife
1999 · 1h 49m
country: United States
When astronaut Spencer Armacost returns to Earth after a mission that nearly cost him his life, he decides to take a desk job in order to see his beautiful wife, Jillian, more often. Gradually, Jillian notices that Spencer's personality seems to have changed, but her concerns fade when she discovers that she's pregnant. As Jillian grows closer to becoming a mother, her suspicions about Spencer return. Why does it seem as if he's a different person?
Loss of Faith
Loss of Faith
1998 · 1h 33m
country: Canada
A crime novelist searches for a missing baby at his sister's behest and makes painful discoveries about himself along the way.


Hercules
1997 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Bestowed with superhuman strength, a young mortal named Hercules sets out to prove himself a hero in the eyes of his father, the great god Zeus. Along with his friends Pegasus, a flying horse, and Phil, a personal trainer, Hercules is tricked by the hilarious, hotheaded villain Hades, who's plotting to take over Mount Olympus!


Everything to Gain
1996 · 1h 27m
country: United States
After losing her husband and two daughters in a robbery, Mallory must face up to her bereavement and ensuing depression.


Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible
1996 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Inspired by the theatrical magicians Siegfried and Roy, this animated adventure transplants the stage personalities into a fantastical world called Sarmoti, where the once powerful witches and fairies of the land have had their magical abilities stolen by an invading race from Endland. Now, heroic magic wielders Siegfried, Roy, and Roy's magical white tiger Manticore are the only ones who can set things right - if they can just get along with each other.
Corwin
Corwin
1996 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Biography of Norman Corwin, the great writer, producer and director of the Golden Age of Radio. Actors in his radio plays included Orson Welles, Jimmy Stewart, Charles Laughton, Danny Kaye, Paul Robeson and Judy Garland.


The Phantom
1996 · 1h 40m
country: United States
The 21st successor to the role of Bengalla's resident superhero must travel to New York to prevent a rich madman from obtaining three magic skulls that would give him the secret to ultimate power.


Inevitable Grace
1994 · 1h 43m
country: United States
A psychiatrist falls prey to blackmail by her patient's husband.


The Magic Flute
1994 · 44m
country: Unknown
Based on Mozart’s opera, a young prince is gifted a magical flute by the Queen of the night to help him find a missing princess and he uncovers a hidden truth.


A Case for Murder
1993 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Jack Hammett is an aggressive young defence attorney on the rise up the corporate ladder. In the courtroom he's known as the "Hail Mary Kid" for his ability to win the unwinnable cases. When one of the firm's lawyers, Darren Gaines, is murdered and Gaines' wife is charged, Hammett is assigned as her attorney. Hammett asks Kate Weldon, a recently hired lawyer, to assist him. Together they discover some inconsistencies in the case as well as a possible connection to the recent murder of a judge.


Round Numbers
1992 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A housewife who despises society's obsession with health and looks suspects her husband of cheating on her with a hot model in a local health spa. She decides to infiltrate the spa, find the woman and get her revenge. But is it that simple?


Dark Horse
1992 · 1h 38m
country: United States
14 year old Allison has to go to a horse farm. With all the horses and the help of the owner Susan Hadley she finds new sense in her life.


P.J. Sparkles
1992 · 30m
country: United States
PJ is an orphan with no last name and she has a special wish, she wants someone to love. One night while out riding her grey horse Blaze, PJ gets her wish. The "Wishing Star" shines its magic light on her and her horse and PJ is transported to the gray world of Twinkle Town. There she meets three new friends, Glimmer, Glowee, and Sparks, three lonely children who live there and have been wishing for someone to love them. The Wishing Star has turned Blaze into a beautiful white talking horse and given PJ a crown that talks! Her clothing has changed into a brilliant, sparkling dress, which gives her a last name, she is now PJ Sparkles! She's been given a magic power, the magic of LOVE!


Ragin Cajun
1991 · 1h 31m
country: United States
After his girlfriend is kidnapped by a vicious mobster, Cage rips into action with a vengeance. Retired from kickboxing to pursue dreams of being an entertainer, Cage is forced into a death match with the brutal doctor death. He must win, or he will die.


Dors: The Other Diana
1990 · 1h
country: United Kingdom
Documentary about the life and career of actress Diana Dors, Britain's own "Blonde Bombshell".


A Ghost in Monte Carlo
1990 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
A chance meeting between British nobleman and lovely young Mistral foils a plot by her manipulating Aunt Emilie to avenge the death of her sister, Mistral's mother, who died in childbirth. But when an unscrupulous blackmailer and a rapacious Rajah enter the plot, the growing attraction between Lord and convent girl becomes yet more fraught with Danger.
Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder
Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder
1988 · 1h 34m
country: Canada
In a well received addition to the Disney original, Johnny Cash and Tim Dunigan play Davy Crockett. Crockett and Andrew Jackson, now old men, share their memories (and differences) about an Indian uprising they put down 25 years prior.


Love Among Thieves
1987 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San Francisco museum. The eggs were demanded as ransom for her kidnapped fiancé. She boards a plane for the Latin American city of Ladera, as per instructions, and is met by Mike Chambers. Caroline first believes that Mike is one of the kidnappers, until a mysterious man in a trench-coat tries to kill her, and Mike comes to the rescue. They are then both captured by a band of Mexican bandits, who also may or may not be part of the scheme.


Directed by William Wyler
1986 · 59m
country: United States
A documentary on the film director William Wyler (1902-1981), this feature was conceived by his daughter, Catherine, as a loving tribute. Utilizing a wealth of film clips, many in black and white, the movie features interviews with Bette Davis, Samantha Eggar, Greer Garson, Lillian Hellman, Audrey Hepburn, Charlton Heston, John Huston, Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck, Ralph Richardson, Terence Stamp, Barbra Streisand, Billy Wilder, and the director himself, interviewed only a few days before he died in 1981.


Curtains
1983 · 1h 29m
country: Canada
Six young actresses auditioning for a movie role at a remote mansion are targeted by a mysterious masked murderer.


The Hot Touch
1982 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer figures out their scheme but agrees to keep quiet if they forge some art lost in WWII.


Demonoid
1981 · 1h 20m
country: Mexico
A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine, fearing an ancient curse. The couple enter the mine to prove there is no danger and inadvertently release a demon which possesses people's left hands and forces them to behave in a suitably diabolical manner.


The Exterminator
1980 · 1h 38m
country: United States
When a man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York, he transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a war zone.


The Brood
1979 · 1h 32m
country: Canada
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalised wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.


Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
1978 · 2h 30m
country: United States
The life and times of the flamboyant showman who built his legendary Follies around beautiful women -- as told by the women in his life.


The Biggest Battle
1978 · 1h 42m
country: Germany
A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.


Unknown Powers
1978 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A documentary –actually three episodes of a canceled TV series edited together– examining various phenomena, including ESP, psychic surgery and past-life hypnosis.


The Uncanny
1977 · 1h 29m
country: Canada
Wilbur Gray, a horror writer, has stumbled upon a terrible secret, that cats are supernatural creatures who really call the shots. In a desperate attempt to get others to believe him, Wilbur spews three tales of feline horror.


Why Shoot the Teacher?
1977 · 1h 40m
country: Canada
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.


Welcome to Blood City
1977 · 1h 36m
country: Canada
Five strangers awake, finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed - what the townspeople refer to as being "immortal" - by killing twenty of the other inhabitants of the town under the scrutiny of the sheriff (Jack Palance), otherwise they will spend their lives in slavery.


The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976 · 1h 53m
country: United Kingdom
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.


The Killer Who Wouldn't Die
1976 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
After his wife is killed in a mysterious bomb explosion, a cop leaves the department and starts a charter boat service. When an undercover agent who is a close friend is killed, he is asked to look into it, and discovers a web of espionage and murder.


The Hemingway Play
1976 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A novel portrait of author Ernest Hemingway, in which four versions of the man from different points of his life exist simultaneously.


The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
1975 · 1h 45m
country: United States
The curse of the legendary blue Hope Diamond on all its owners is dramatized from the gem's discovery in 17th Century India until its donation to the Smithsonian Institute.


All the Kind Strangers
1974 · 1h 13m
country: United States
An LA photographer, driving through backwoods country, spots a young boy walking on the side of the road and offers him a ride home. After reaching the isolated house, he discovers that the boy and his siblings are keeping a woman prisoner as their "mom" and now he is expected to be their "dad"...or else.


Double Indemnity
1973 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.


A Name for Evil
1973 · 1h 14m
country: United States
Dissatisfied with the family architectural business, a man and his wife pack up and move out to his great-grandfather's old house in the country. While trying to patch it up, the house starts to make it clear to him that it doesn't want him there, but the local church (with some off-kilter practices of their own) seems to take a shine to him.


The Dead Are Alive
1972 · 1h 45m
country: Germany
A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.


The Light at the Edge of the World
1971 · 2h 8m
country: United States
Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.


The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970 · 1h 45m
country: France
Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.


The Walking Stick
1970 · 1h 41m
country: United Kingdom
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.


The Molly Maguires
1970 · 2h
country: United States
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath, put pressure on the greedy and ruthless company they work for by sabotaging mining facilities in the hope of improving their working conditions and the lives of their families.


Doctor Dolittle
1967 · 2h 31m
country: United States
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.


Walk Don't Run
1966 · 1h 54m
country: United States
During the housing shortage of the 1964 Summer Olympic Games, two men and a woman share a small apartment in Tokyo, and the older man soon starts playing Cupid to the younger pair.


Return from the Ashes
1965 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.


The Collector
1965 · 1h 59m
country: United Kingdom
A man kidnaps a woman and holds her hostage just for the pleasure of having her there.


Psyche 59
1964 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
An industrialist's wife tries to remember the shocking sight that made her blind.


Dr. Crippen
1963 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
A British physician stands trial for murdering his wife after he and his mistress are captured while fleeing to Canada.


Doctor in Distress
1963 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.


The Wild and the Willing
1962 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play 'rugger' and can't sink a whole pint of beer, and African student Reggie. He also has a way with the girls....