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.
A Shot in the Dark
(Maria Gambrelli)
Alles nur Tarnung
(Jutta)
The Victors
(Helga)
The Wrecking Crew
(Linka Karensky)
The Prisoner of Zenda
(Countess Montparnasse)
The Prize
(Inger Lisa Andersson)
And Then There Were None
(Vera Clyde)
Lisa and the Devil
(Lisa Reiner)
Baron Blood
(Eva Arnold)
Deadlier Than the Male
(Irma Eckman)
Niemand weint für immer
(Lou Parker)
Frontier Hellcat
(Annie Dillman)
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
(Self)
Elke Sommer erzählt...
(Self)
The Swiss Conspiracy
(Rita Jensen)
The Money Trap
(Lisa Baron)
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
(Didi)
That's Carry On!
(Professor Anna Vooshka)
Zeppelin
(Erika Altschul)
The Dolls
(Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica"))
Carry On Behind
(Professor Anna Vooshka)
The Fantastic Seven
(Rebecca Wayne)
The Oscar
(Kay Bergdahl)
Percy
(Helga)
Percy's Progress
(Clarissa)
The Double McGuffin
(Prime Minister Kura)
Howlers of the Dock
(Giulia Giommarelli)
Bahía de Palma
(Olga)
US Against the World
(Self)
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
(Miss Pelham)
Training Your Best Friend
(Self)
The Art of Love
(Nikki Dunnay)
Lily in Love
(Alicia Braun)
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
(Ann Bennett)
The Astral Factor
(Chris Hartman)
Hotel der toten Gäste
(Herself)
Meet Him and Die
(Perrone's Secretary)
Who Stole the Body?
(Brigitte)
Ewig rauschen die Gelder
(Mrs. von Korff)
Death Stone
(Kris Patterson)
The Net
(Christa Sonntag)
Probe
(Heideline 'Uli' Ullman)
Sweet Ecstasy
(Elke)
Twisted Sex Vol. 5
((archive))
One or the Other of Us
(Miezi)
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
(self)
Daniella by Night
(Daniella)
The Last Days of Sharon Tate
Don't Bother to Knock
(Ingrid)
Jenny's War
(Eva Gruenberg)
… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol
(Singer)
Geliebte Hochstaplerin
(Barbara Shadwell)
The Day the Rains Came
(Ellen)
The Venetian Affair
(Sandra Fane)
Flashback
(Frau Lust)
The House of Exorcism
(Lisa Reiner)
Die Reise nach Wien
(Toni Simon)
Ship of the Dead
(Mylène Loureau)
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
(Magdalene Kruschen)
Himmelsheim
(Helga Münzel)
Der Mann im Pyjama
(Frau Lachmann)
Himmel, Amor und Zwirn
(Eva)
Lampenfieber
(Evelyne)
Und sowas nennt sich Leben
(Britta)
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
(Renate Hecker)
Café Oriental
(Sylvia)
Tausend Takte Übermut
(Herself)
Auf Wiedersehen
(Suzy Dalton)
Seduction by the Sea
(Eva)
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
(Paula Schultz)
Inside the Third Reich
(Magda Goebbels)
The Corrupt Ones
(Lilly Mancini)
The Warrior Empress
Nicht mit uns
(Andrea Paretti)
The Top of the Hill
(Eva Heggener)
La Pica sul Pacifico
(Rossana)
Love, the Italian Way
(Greta)
The Jack Benny Hour
(Elke Sommer / Maria Poppenini)
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
Reblaus
(Maria Rüppel)
Severed Ties
(Helena Harrison)
Life Is Too Long
(Alfis Mutter)
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts
(Self)
Nachts ging das Telefon
(Mabel Meyer)
Hollywood Ghost Stories
(Herself)
Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne
(Frau Lorenz)
One Away
(Elsa)
The Invincible Six
(Zari)
Perlico - Perlaco
Nicht von gestern
(Billie Dawn)
L'amico del giaguaro
(Greta)
Jamaican Gold
(Ursula)
Le Chien
(Elle)
The Jukebox Kids
(Giulia Cesari)
Men and Noblemen
(Caterina)
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
(Herself (archive footage))
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
(Self - Actress)
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
(Self)
St. Elsewhere
Heut' abend
(Self)
Münchner Bilderbogen
(Self)
Schnick-Schnack
(Self)
Zwischenstation
(Self)
Showgeschichten
(Self)
The Muppet Show
(Self - Special Guest Star)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
(The Princess)
The Oscars
(Self)
The Winds of War
Happy Holiday
(Isabella Scattini)
Florian III
(Sonja Carpenter)
Stars in der Manege
(Self)
Die Harald Schmidt Show
(Self)
Dalli Dalli
(Self)
Lafer! Lichter! Lecker!
(Self)
Wetten, dass..?
(Self)
Gisbert
Peter the Great
(Charlotte)
The Bob Hope Show
(Self)
Krimistunde
The Six Million Dollar Man
(Dr. Ilse Martin)
Miss Universe
(Host)
Bio’s Bahnhof
(Self)
Dalli Dalli
(Self - Candidate)
Na siehste!
(Self)
Verstehen Sie Spaß?
(Self)
Destiny Ridge
(Anna Hansen)
Schmidteinander
Musik aus Studio B
(Self)
Die Pyramide
(Self - Musician)
Bambi Awards
(Self)
Wer weiß denn sowas?
(Self)
Der goldene Schuß
(Self)
ZDF-Fernsehgarten
(Self)
Filmlegenden. Deutsch
(Self)
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
(Self)
Menschen der Woche
(Self)
The Love Boat
(Benita James)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(Self)
Cinépanorama
(Self)
The Dick Cavett Show
(Self - Guest)
NDR Talk Show
(Self)
Je später der Abend
(Self)
Jenny's War
(Eva Gruenberg)
Wünsch dir was
(Self)
Der große Preis
(Self)
Unsere kleine Show
(Self)
Abendschau
(Self)
Nachtcafé
(Self)
Die WIB-Schaukel
(self)
The Danny Kaye Show
(Self)
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
(Isabel Von Hohenstauffen)
Reflets de Cannes
(Self)
Tietjen und Bommes
(Self)
Dinah!
(Self)
Best of The Dean Martin Variety Show
The Bobby Darin Show