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Elke Sommer

Elke Sommer, born Elke von Schletz, is a German actress, entertainer and artist, who has starred in many Hollywood films. She was spotted by film director Vittorio De Sica while on holiday in Italy, and began appearing in films there in 1958. Also that year, she changed her surname from Schletz to Sommer, which was easier to pronounce for a non-German audience. She quickly became a noted sex symbol and moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s. She also became one of the most popular pin-up girls of the time, and posed for several pictorials in Playboy magazine, including the September 1964 and December 1967 issues. Sommer became one of the top film actresses of the 1960s. She made just shy of 100 film and television appearances between 1959 and 2005, including A Shot in the Dark with Peter Sellers, The Art of Love with James Garner and Dick Van Dyke, The Oscar with Stephen Boyd, Boy Did I Get a Wrong Number! with Bob Hope, the Bulldog Drummond extravaganza Deadlier Than the Male, The Wrecking Crew with Dean Martin, and The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz. In 1964, she won a Golden Globe award as Most Promising Newcomer Actress for The Prize, a film in which she co-starred with Paul Newman and Edward G. Robinson. A frequent guest on television, Sommer sang and participated in comedy sketches on episodes of The Dean Martin Show and on Bob Hope specials, made 10 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, and was a panelist on the Hollywood Squares game show many times between 1973 and 1980, when Peter Marshall was its "Square-Master", or host. Sommer's films during the 1970s included the thriller Zeppelin, in which she co-starred with Michael York, and a remake of Agatha Christie's frequently filmed murder mystery Ten Little Indians. In 1972, she starred in two Italian horror films directed by Mario Bava: Baron Blood and Lisa and the Devil. The latter was subsequently re-edited (with 1975 footage inserted) to make a different film called House of Exorcism. Sommer went back to Italy to act in additional scenes for Lisa and the Devil, which its producer inserted into the film to convert it to House of Exorcism, against the wishes of the director. In 1975, Peter Rogers cast her in the British comedy Carry On Behind as the Russian Professor Vrooshka.[2] She became the Carry On films' joint highest-paid performer, at £30,000; this was an honor that she shared with Phil Silvers (who starred in Follow That Camel). Most of her movie work during the decade came in European films. After the 1979 comedy The Prisoner of Zenda, which reunited her with Sellers, the actress did virtually no more acting in Hollywood films, concentrating more on her artwork. She provided the voice for Yzma in the German release of The Emperor's New Groove. Sommer also performed as a singer, recording and releasing several albums. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elke Sommer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Nacimiento: 1940-11-05, Berlin, Germany
  • Valoración en CMNetwork Actors: 2,8 de 5

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Conocido por

  • El nuevo caso del inspector Clouseau (1964) — Maria Gambrelli
  • El Diablo se lleva los muertos (1974) — Lisa Reiner
  • Orgía de Sangre (1972) — Eva Arnold
  • Diez negritos (1974) — Vera Clyde
  • El premio (1963) — Inger Lisa Andersson
  • Carry On Behind (1975) — Professor Anna Vooshka
  • La mansión de los siete placeres (1968) — Linka Karensky
  • Los buitres (1964) — Annie Dillman

Filmografía

  • Das Leben ist zu lang (2010) — Alfis Mutter
  • Ewig rauschen die Gelder (2005) — Mrs. von Korff
  • Reblaus (2005) — Maria Rüppel
  • Un verano sangriento (2000) — Frau Lust
  • Nicht mit uns (2000) — Andrea Paretti
  • Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne (1999) — Frau Lorenz
  • Gisbert (1999)
  • Alles nur Tarnung (1996) — Jutta
  • Florian III (1994) — Sonja Carpenter
  • Happy Holiday (1993) — Isabella Scattini
  • Destiny Ridge (1993) — Anna Hansen
  • Severed Ties (1992) — Helena Harrison
  • Schmidteinander (1990)
  • Himmelsheim (1989) — Helga Münzel
  • En el calor de la jungla (1987) — Kris Patterson
  • Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna (1986) — Isabel Von Hohenstauffen
  • Peter the Great (1986) — Charlotte
  • La guerra de Jenny (1985) — Eva Gruenberg
  • Jenny's War (1985) — Eva Gruenberg
  • Niemand weint für immer (1984) — Lou Parker
  • Lily in Love (1984) — Alicia Braun
  • St. Elsewhere (1982) — Natasha
  • Inside the Third Reich (1982) — Magda Goebbels
  • Krimistunde (1982)
  • Der Mann im Pyjama (1981) — Frau Lachmann
  • Un ruiseñor cantó en Berkeley Square (1980) — Miss Pelham
  • Top of the Hill (1980) — Eva Heggener
  • Jamaican Gold (1979) — Ursula
  • El estrafalario prisionero de Zenda (1979) — Countess Montparnasse
  • The Double McGuffin (1979) — Prime Minister Kura
  • The Fantastic Seven (1979) — Rebecca Wayne
  • I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (1978) — Magdalene Kruschen
  • The Astral Factor (1978) — Chris Hartman
  • That's Carry On! (1977) — Professor Anna Vooshka (archive footage)
  • Vacaciones en el mar (1977) — Benita James
  • Nicht von gestern (1977) — Billie Dawn
  • Pronto ad uccidere (1976) — Perrone's Secretary
  • Conspiración en Suiza (1976) — Rita Jensen
  • One Away (1976) — Elsa
  • Das Netz (1975) — Christa Sonntag
  • Carry On Behind (1975) — Professor Anna Vooshka
  • La casa del exorcismo (1975) — Lisa Reiner
  • El Diablo se lleva los muertos (1974) — Lisa Reiner
  • Diez negritos (1974) — Vera Clyde
  • Percy's Progress (1974) — Clarissa
  • Einer von uns beiden (1974) — Miezi
  • El hombre de los seis millones de dólares (1974) — Dr. Ilse Martin
  • Die Reise nach Wien (1973) — Toni Simon
  • The Bobby Darin Show (1973)
  • Orgía de Sangre (1972) — Eva Arnold
  • Probe (1972) — Heideline 'Uli' Ullman
  • Perlico - Perlaco (1971)
  • Zeppelin (1971) — Erika Altschul
  • Percy (1971) — Helga
  • The Invincible Six (1970) — Zari
  • La mansión de los siete placeres (1968) — Linka Karensky
  • Las Vegas: 500 millones (1968) — Ann Bennett
  • Sigan a esa rubia (1968) — Paula Schultz
  • Más peligrosas que los hombres (1967) — Irma Eckman
  • Los Corrompidos (1967) — Lilly Mancini
  • Intriga en Venecia (1966) — Sandra Fane
  • Vaya, me equivoqué de número (1966) — Didi
  • El Oscar (1966) — Kay Bergdahl
  • The Jack Benny Hour (1965) — Elke Sommer / Maria Poppenini
  • La trampa del dinero (1965) — Lisa Baron
  • El arte de amar (1965) — Nikki Dunnay
  • Las cuatro muñecas (1965) — Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica")
  • Los buitres (1964) — Annie Dillman
  • El nuevo caso del inspector Clouseau (1964) — Maria Gambrelli
  • El premio (1963) — Inger Lisa Andersson
  • … denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol (1963) — Singer
  • Los vencedores (1963) — Helga
  • Verführung am Meer (1963) — Eva
  • Les Bricoleurs (1963) — Brigitte
  • Nachts ging das Telefon (1962) — Mabel Meyer
  • Bahía de Palma (1962) — Olga
  • Un chien dans un jeu de quilles (1962) — Ariane
  • Le Chien (1962) — Elle
  • Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962) — Renate Hecker
  • Douce violence (1962) — Elke
  • Café Oriental (1962) — Sylvia
  • Auf Wiedersehen (1961) — Suzy Dalton
  • Geliebte Hochstaplerin (1961) — Barbara Shadwell
  • Don't Bother to Knock (1961) — Ingrid
  • De quoi tu te mêles Daniela! (1961) — Daniella
  • Und sowas nennt sich Leben (1961) — Britta
  • Mujeres de lujo (1960) — Greta
  • Saffo, venere di Lesbo (1960)
  • Himmel, Amor und Zwirn (1960) — Eva
  • Urlatori Alla Sbarra (1960) — Giulia Giommarelli
  • Lampenfieber (1960) — Evelyne
  • Am Tag, als der Regen kam (1959) — Ellen
  • Das Totenschiff (1959) — Mylène Loureau
  • Ragazzi del Juke-Box (1959) — Giulia Cesari
  • La Pica sul Pacifico (1959) — Rossana
  • Uomini e nobiluomini (1959) — Caterina
  • L'amico del giaguaro (1959) — Greta
  • Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) — The Princess