Elke Sommer
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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.
Known for
Credits
A Shot in the Dark (1964)
as Maria Gambrelli
And Then There Were None (1974)
as Vera Clyde
Lisa and the Devil (1974)
as Lisa Reiner
Baron Blood (1972)
as Eva Arnold
The Wrecking Crew (1968)
as Linka Karensky
The Oscar (1966)
as Kay Bergdahl
The Prize (1963)
as Inger Lisa Andersson
The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
as Countess Montparnasse
Frontier Hellcat (1964)
as Annie Dillman
Auf Wiedersehen (1961)
as Suzy Dalton
Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
as Irma Eckman
Who Stole the Body? (1963)
as Brigitte
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1980)
as Miss Pelham
The Money Trap (1965)
as Lisa Baron
They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968)
as Ann Bennett
The Art of Love (1965)
as Nikki Dunnay
Jamaican Gold (1979)
as Ursula
Flashback (2000)
as Frau Lust
The Astral Factor (1978)
as Chris Hartman
The Dolls (1965)
as Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica")
Perlico - Perlaco (1971)
Actor
The Venetian Affair (1966)
as Sandra Fane
Meet Him and Die (1976)
as Perrone's Secretary
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika (1997)
as Self - Actress
That's Carry On! (1977)
as Professor Anna Vooshka (archive footage)
Bahía de Palma (1962)
as Olga
Probe (1972)
as Heideline 'Uli' Ullman
Lily in Love (1984)
as Alicia Braun
US Against the World (1977)
as Self
The Victors (1963)
as Helga
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
as Didi
The Swiss Conspiracy (1976)
as Rita Jensen
Zeppelin (1971)
as Erika Altschul
Carry On Behind (1975)
as Professor Anna Vooshka
Love, the Italian Way (1960)
as Greta
The Corrupt Ones (1967)
as Lilly Mancini
The Double McGuffin (1979)
as Prime Minister Kura
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968)
as Paula Schultz
Howlers of the Dock (1960)
as Giulia Giommarelli
One Away (1976)
as Elsa
Ship of the Dead (1959)
as Mylène Loureau
The House of Exorcism (1975)
as Lisa Reiner
Reblaus (2005)
as Maria Rüppel
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (1978)
as Magdalene Kruschen
Jenny's War (1985)
as Eva Gruenberg
Percy (1971)
as Helga
The Fantastic Seven (1979)
as Rebecca Wayne
Mondo Hollywood (1967)
Actor
Don't Bother to Knock (1961)
as Ingrid
Life Is Too Long (2010)
as Alfis Mutter
Death Stone (1987)
as Kris Patterson
What's a Carry On? (1998)
as Professor Anna Vooshka (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Warrior Empress (1960)
Actor
Severed Ties (1992)
as Helena Harrison
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau (2002)
as self
Percy's Progress (1974)
as Clarissa
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962)
as Renate Hecker
Mario Bava: Operazione paura (2004)
as Self
Himmel, Amor und Zwirn (1960)
as Eva
Men and Noblemen (1959)
as Caterina
The Net (1975)
as Christa Sonntag
Le Chien (1962)
as Elle
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts (1988)
as Self
The Day the Rains Came (1959)
as Ellen
The Jukebox Kids (1959)
as Giulia Cesari
The Jack Benny Hour (1965)
as Elke Sommer / Maria Poppenini
Lampenfieber (1960)
as Evelyne
La Pica sul Pacifico (1959)
as Rossana
Hollywood Ghost Stories (1986)
as Herself
Alles nur Tarnung (1996)
as Jutta
In der Folterkammer des Barons (2017)
as self
Training Your Best Friend (1989)
as Self
Daniella by Night (1961)
as Daniella
The Journey to Vienna (1973)
as Toni Simon
The Invincible Six (1970)
as Zari
Tausend Takte Übermut (1965)
as Herself
One or the Other of Us (1974)
as Miezi
Hotel der toten Gäste (1965)
as Herself
Seduction by the Sea (1963)
as Eva
Café Oriental (1962)
as Sylvia
Und sowas nennt sich Leben (1961)
as Britta
Twisted Sex Vol. 5 (1993)
as (archive)
Sweet Ecstasy (1962)
as Elke
Der Mann im Pyjama (1981)
as Frau Lachmann
Himmelsheim (1989)
as Helga Münzel
Geliebte Hochstaplerin (1961)
as Barbara Shadwell
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles (1962)
as Ariane
Nicht von gestern (1977)
as Billie Dawn
Nachts ging das Telefon (1962)
as Mabel Meyer
The Last Days of Sharon Tate (1999)
Actor
… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol (1963)
as Singer
Ewig rauschen die Gelder (2005)
as Mrs. von Korff
L'amico del giaguaro (1959)
as Greta
Nicht mit uns (2000)
as Andrea Paretti
Niemand weint für immer (1984)
as Lou Parker
Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne (1999)
as Frau Lorenz
Elke Sommer erzählt... (2010)
as Self