View our gallery of Raquel Welch’s 50-plus year career in film and television
Raquel Welch had a 50-plus year career in film and television, starring opposite Marcello Mastroianni, Edward G. Robinson, Robin Williams, Jimmy Stewart, Faye Dunaway, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Farrah Fawcett, Jim Brown, Burt Reynolds, Mae West, John Huston, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn and many others.
While often celebrated for her appearance, Welch also essayed more serious roles such as the 1987 television drama, for which she was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award. In 2012, the Film Society of Lincoln Center presented a special retrospective of the films of Welch at the Walter Reade Theater.
Much of Welch’s career leveraged her cultural stature. She hosted SNL in 1976, appeared on The Muppet Show, played a diva version of herself on Seinfeld and, as “Raquel Welch,” got into a wrestling match onstage at the Oscars with Leslie Nielsen’s Lt. Frank Drebin in Naked Gun 33 1/2: The Final Insult.
Of course, Welch also presented at the actual Oscar ceremony in 1970, 1974, 1975 and 1979. She famously accepted the Oscar for an absent Goldie Hawn in 1970.
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