{"id":1244,"date":"2026-07-19T11:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:40:21","slug":"barbara-bach-left-hollywood-for-husband-ringo-starr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejoeroganpod.com\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Bach left Hollywood for husband Ringo Starr"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Barbara Bach, who played Bond girl Triple X, wasn\u2019t needing to be rescued from the spy who loved her.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Instead she was looking for her knight in shining armor \u2013 her rocker husband, Sir Richard Starkey, better known as Ringo Starr.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Had roles in Italian films<\/h2>\n

Now 78, Bach, an actor and model, was at the pinnacle of her career with her appearance in 1977\u2019s\u00a0The Spy Who Loved Me<\/em>, where she played the love interest, and potential adversary, to the womanizing 007 agent, James Bond played by Roger Moore.<\/p>\n

According to a 1983 story in People,\u00a0Bach referred to Bond\u00a0as \u201ca chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Moore agreed and in 1973, the year he starred in his first Bond film,\u00a0Live and Let Die<\/em>, he said in an interview with People, \u201cBond, like myself, is a male chauvinist pig. All my life I\u2019ve been trying to get women out of brassieres and pants.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Prior to filming\u00a0The Spy Who Loved Me<\/em>, Bach had roles in Italian films, one with other Bond Girls\u2013Claudine Auger from\u00a0Thunderball<\/em>\u00a0(1965) and Barbara Bouchet from\u00a0Casino Royale<\/em>\u00a0(1967)\u2013 in\u00a0Black Belly of the Tarantula<\/em>, a 1971 Italian murder-mystery.<\/p>\n

Bach\u2019s starring performance as a Bond girl made the brown-haired beauty an all-time favorite and paved her acting career with gold.<\/p>\n

After playing Major Anya Amasova, the fictional character part of the KGB, she had leading roles in\u00a0Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy<\/em>, a 1980 film directed by Robert Downey Sr, and in\u00a0Caveman<\/em>, a 1981 slapstick comedy where she co-starred with Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long and\u00a0Ringo Starr, now 82.<\/p>\n

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Barbara Bach. Credit \/ Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Barbara Bach, who played Bond girl Triple X, wasn\u2019t needing to be rescued from the spy who loved her.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Instead she was looking for her knight in shining armor \u2013 her rocker husband, Sir Richard Starkey, better known as Ringo Starr.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Had roles in Italian films<\/h2>\n

Now 78, Bach, an actor and model, was at the pinnacle of her career with her appearance in 1977\u2019s\u00a0The Spy Who Loved Me<\/em>, where she played the love interest, and potential adversary, to the womanizing 007 agent, James Bond played by Roger Moore.<\/p>\n

According to a 1983 story in People,\u00a0Bach referred to Bond\u00a0as \u201ca chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Moore agreed and in 1973, the year he starred in his first Bond film,\u00a0Live and Let Die<\/em>, he said in an interview with People, \u201cBond, like myself, is a male chauvinist pig. All my life I\u2019ve been trying to get women out of brassieres and pants.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sunset Boulevard\/Corbis via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prior to filming\u00a0The Spy Who Loved Me<\/em>, Bach had roles in Italian films, one with other Bond Girls\u2013Claudine Auger from\u00a0Thunderball<\/em>\u00a0(1965) and Barbara Bouchet from\u00a0Casino Royale<\/em>\u00a0(1967)\u2013 in\u00a0Black Belly of the Tarantula<\/em>, a 1971 Italian murder-mystery.<\/p>\n

Bach\u2019s starring performance as a Bond girl made the brown-haired beauty an all-time favorite and paved her acting career with gold.<\/p>\n

After playing Major Anya Amasova, the fictional character part of the KGB, she had leading roles in\u00a0Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy<\/em>, a 1980 film directed by Robert Downey Sr, and in\u00a0Caveman<\/em>, a 1981 slapstick comedy where she co-starred with Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long and\u00a0Ringo Starr, now 82.<\/p>\n

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Starr plays Neanderthal lusting after Lana, played by Bach, but in the end, he dumps her and choses another mate.<\/p>\n

The screenplay in no way reflects what happened in real life.<\/p>\n

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Barbara Bach and Roger Moore, stars of the James Bond film \u2018The Spy Who Loved Me\u2019 leaning on the now-famous \u2018amphibious\u2019 Lotus Esprit. (Photo by Hulton Archive\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The pair saw each other at the Los Angeles airport, flying to the set of\u00a0Caveman<\/em>, which was filmed in Mexico.<\/p>\n

Featured in a 1981 Playboy pictorial (per\u00a0People), Bach said, \u201cA lot of garbage has been written about us, none of it interesting,\u201d she said. \u201cThe truth is, we weren\u2019t together until the very end of\u00a0Caveman<\/em>. Working, we got along fine, but we each had other people, our respective friends. Then, all of a sudden, within a week\u2013the last week of shooting\u2013it just happened. We changed from friendly love to being in love.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking with the Irish Examiner in 2021, The Beatles superstar gushed over his wife, whom he married more than four decades ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the woman. I loved her from when I first saw her at LAX in 1980. She was at the airport with a boyfriend and I was at the airport checking in, and we happened to be going to Mexico to do the same movie. And that\u2019s how it happened,\u201d Star recalled. \u00a0\u201cI\u2019m blessed she\u2019s in my life, that\u2019s all I can ever say.\u201d<\/p>\n

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