‘The Collector’ Actress Samantha Eggar Dead at 86

Actress Samantha Eggar — finest identified for “The Collector,” “Physician Dolittle” and “The Molly Maguires” — has died, TMZ can verify.

The vigorous British actress died peacefully Wednesday surrounded by household at her house in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles … her household tells TMZ. We’re instructed she struggled with a “lengthy sickness” earlier than her passing.

Samantha hit the large display screen working, incomes an Oscar nomination for her breakout function within the 1965 movie “The Collector.” She went on to have a prolific profession, showing in additional than 100 tasks on the large and small screens, together with voiceover work.

In her later years, the “The Brood” actress was lively on the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills and at Saint Francis de Gross sales Parish in Sherman Oaks.

She is survived by her actress daughter Jenna and producer son Nicolas Stern, whose father is American actor Tom Stern. The couple was married from 1964 to 1971. She’s additionally survived by her youngsters’s spouses, 3 grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.

She was 86.