Uta Erickson was a Norwegian

Norway

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 actress who was in many sexploitation

Sexploitation

Sexploitation, or "sex-exploitation", describes a class of independently produced, low-budget feature films generally associated with the 1960s and serving largely as a vehicle for the exhibition of non-explicit sexual situations and gratuitous nudity. The genre is a subgenre of exploitation films...

 films of the late 1960s. She starred in several provocatively titled films directed by Michael and Roberta Findlay, including The Kiss Of Her Flesh, A Thousand Pleasures, The Curse Of Her Flesh, and The Ultimate Degenerate. Erickson was also a favorite of directors Doris Wishman

Doris Wishman

Doris Wishman was an American film director, screenwriter and independent film producer....

 (Love Toy

Love Toy

Love Toy is an American 1968 sexploitation film, produced and directed by Doris Wishman. The film stars Bernard Marcel, Pat Happel, Uta Erickson and Larry Hunter...

) and Barry Mahon

Barry Mahon

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 (Sex Killer). Some of her films, notably Mnasidika were arty enough to pass as the "low end" of an arthouse pairing with a film by a European auteur. At her best, such as in Passion in Hot Hollows directed by Joe Sarno

Joseph W. Sarno

Joseph W. Sarno was an American film director and screenwriter.One of the most prolific and distinctive auteurs to emerge from the proto-pornographic sexploitation film genre of the 1960s, Joe Sarno had written and directed approximately 75 theatrically released feature films in the sexploitation,...

, her acting could make a softcore scene far more erotic. Deep Throat

Deep Throat (film)

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rang the death knell to this softcore

Softcore

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 genre

Genre

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 and effectively ended Erickson's film career.

Filmography

• Dynamite (1972)
• Bacchanale (1970)
• The Amazing Transplant (1970)
• Women Women Women Moira (1970)
• Passion in Hot Hollows (1969)
• She Came By Bus aka The Sick Ones (1969)
• Sex Circus (1969)
• Mnasidika (1969)
• She's Doing It Again (1969)
• The Ultimate Degenerate (1969)
• Love Toy
  Love Toy
  Love Toy is an American 1968 sexploitation film, produced and directed by Doris Wishman. The film stars Bernard Marcel, Pat Happel, Uta Erickson and Larry Hunter...
  
  (1968)
• Daughters of Lesbos (1968)
• Seeds of Sin (1968)
• The Curse of Her Flesh (1968)
• See How They Come (1968)
• The Sex Killer (1967)
• Unholy Matrimony (1966)
• Electronic Lover (1966)
• Olga's Dance Hall Girls (1966)

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