The dark-haired, dark-eyed sex symbol then returned for another spy spoof, playing one of the “James Bonds,” aka The Detainer, in Casino Royale (1967) opposite David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress and Woody Allen. In The Silencers (1966), the first of the four Matt Helm movies that starred Dean Martin as the American superspy, Lavi played the femme-fatale Tina Batori she saves the hero from getting a dagger in the back while he is in the embrace of a gorgeous female enemy agent.
Lavi died Wednesday at her home in Asheville, N.C., her family announced. Daliah Lavi, the exotic beauty who starred in the swinging 1960s spy spoofs Casino Royale and The Silencers, has died.
