Mai Zetterling, a Swedish-born director and actress who starred in films with Peter Sellers, Tyrone Power and Anjelica Huston, died of cancer this past week. She was 68.
She appeared with Sellers in "Only Two Can Play," with Power in "Abandon Ship," and with Huston in "The Witches." She also starred with Danny Kaye in "Knock On Wood," with Richard Widmark in "The Price Of Gold" and Pat Boone in "The Main Attraction."After her Hollywood career she turned to writing and directed a number of films.
"I gave up acting because I was not a passive person," she said in a 1973 interview with The Associated Press. "I had been infuriated about direction in films again and again. I wanted, for many reasons, to do my own ideas, positive ideas."
Zetterling had written and was directing the film "The Woman Who Cleaned the World" when she died.
She wrote a number of books, including "Rains Hat," a children's book published in 1979, and her 1985 autobiography, "All Those Tomorrows."