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person_profile-Elke Sommer

Elke Sommer Age: 84

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Elke Sommer

Date of Birth:

Nov 05, 1940

Country of birth:

Germany

Biography of

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.

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Filmography of

Elke Sommer

Found 80 Movies in total

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

Herself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2021

Life Is Too Long

Alfis Mutter ( Actor )

... 2010

... 2004

Flashback

Frau Lust ( Actor )

... 2000

Alles nur Tarnung

Jutta ( Actor )

... 1996

Twisted Sex Vol. 5

(archive) ( Actor )

... 1993

Severed Ties

Helena Harrison ( Actor )

... 1992

... 1989

Death Stone

Kris Patterson ( Actor )

... 1987

Jenny's War

Eva Gruenberg ( Actor )

... 1985

Lily in Love

Alicia Braun ( Actor )

... 1984

Inside the Third Reich

Magda Goebbels ( Actor )

... 1982

Der Mann im Pyjama

Frau Lachmann ( Actor )

... 1981

... 1980

The Top of the Hill

Eva Heggener ( Actor )

... 1980

Jamaican Gold

Ursula ( Actor )

... 1979

The Prisoner of Zenda

Countess Montparnasse ( Actor )

... 1979

The Double McGuffin

Prime Minister Kura ( Actor )

... 1979

The Fantastic Seven

Rebecca Wayne ( Actor )

... 1979

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

Magdalene Kruschen ( Actor )

... 1978

The Astral Factor

Chris Hartman ( Actor )

... 1978

That's Carry On!

Professor Anna Vooshka ( Actor )

... 1977

US Against the World

Self ( Actor )

... 1977

Meet Him and Die

Perrone's Secretary ( Actor )

... 1976

The Swiss Conspiracy

Rita Jensen ( Actor )

... 1976

One Away

Elsa ( Actor )

... 1976

The Net

Christa Sonntag ( Actor )

... 1975

Carry On Behind

Professor Anna Vooshka ( Actor )

... 1975

The House of Exorcism

Lisa Reiner ( Actor )

... 1975

And Then There Were None

Vera Clyde ( Actor )

... 1974

Percy's Progress

Clarissa ( Actor )

... 1974

One or the Other of Us

Miezi ( Actor )

... 1974

Die Reise nach Wien

Toni Simon ( Actor )

... 1973

Lisa and the Devil

Lisa Reiner ( Actor )

... 1973

Baron Blood

Eva Arnold ( Actor )

... 1972

Probe

Heideline 'Uli' Ullman ( Actor )

... 1972

Zeppelin

Erika Altschul ( Actor )

... 1971

Percy

Helga ( Actor )

... 1971

The Invincible Six

Zari ( Actor )

... 1970

The Wrecking Crew

Linka Karensky ( Actor )

... 1968

They Came to Rob Las Vegas

Ann Bennett ( Actor )

... 1968

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

Paula Schultz ( Actor )

... 1968

Deadlier Than the Male

Irma Eckman ( Actor )

... 1967

The Corrupt Ones

Lilly Mancini ( Actor )

... 1967

The Venetian Affair

Sandra Fane ( Actor )

... 1967

... 1966

The Oscar

Kay Bergdahl ( Actor )

... 1966

The Jack Benny Hour

Elke Sommer / Maria Poppenini ( Actor )

... 1965

Tausend Takte Übermut

Herself ( Actor )

... 1965

The Money Trap

Lisa Baron ( Actor )

... 1965

The Art of Love

Nikki Dunnay ( Actor )

... 1965

Hotel der toten Gäste

Herself ( Actor )

... 1965

The Dolls

Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica") ( Actor )

... 1965

Frontier Hellcat

Annie Dillman ( Actor )

... 1964

A Shot in the Dark

Maria Gambrelli ( Actor )

... 1964

The Prize

Inger Lisa Andersson ( Actor )

... 1963

The Victors

Helga ( Actor )

... 1963

... 1963

Who Stole the Body?

Brigitte ( Actor )

... 1963

Bahía de Palma

Olga ( Actor )

... 1962

Le Chien

Elle ( Actor )

... 1962

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt

Renate Hecker ( Actor )

... 1962

Sweet Ecstasy

Elke ( Actor )

... 1962

Auf Wiedersehen

Suzy Dalton ( Actor )

... 1961

Geliebte Hochstaplerin

Barbara Shadwell ( Actor )

... 1961

Don't Bother to Knock

Ingrid ( Actor )

... 1961

Daniella by Night

Daniella ( Actor )

... 1961

... 1961

Love, the Italian Way

Greta ( Actor )

... 1960

... 1960

Howlers of the Dock

Giulia Giommarelli ( Actor )

... 1960

The Day the Rains Came

Ellen ( Actor )

... 1959

Ship of the Dead

Mylène Loureau ( Actor )

... 1959

The Jukebox Kids

Giulia Cesari ( Actor )

... 1959

La Pica sul Pacifico

Rossana ( Actor )

... 1959

Men and Noblemen

Caterina ( Actor )

... 1959

L'amico del giaguaro

Greta ( Actor )

... 1959