
Above: American actress Tamara Dobson, a 6’2″ fashion model who made an unforgettable splash in early ’70s blaxploitation cinema as Cleopatra Jones. She’d played a couple of bit parts before then, and played a few more roles after, but it’s the ass-kicking, karate-chopping Jones that film fans will always remember. Dobson died this month in 2006 of pneumonia related to multiple sclerosis.