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
as Maria GambrelliInspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a...
Movie page
The Astral Factor
as Chris HartmanDemonstrating that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, a convicted strangler studies the...
Movie page
The Prize
as Inger Lisa AnderssonA group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American...
Movie page
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Countess MontparnasseAnthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter...
Movie page
Lisa and the Devil
as Lisa ReinerLisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to...
Movie page
The Wrecking Crew
as Linka KarenskyWhen Count Contini attempts to destroy the world's economy by masterminding the theft of $1...
Movie page
And Then There Were None
as Vera ClydeTen people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is...
Movie page
The House of Exorcism
as Lisa ReinerA re-edited version of Mario Bava's "Lisa and the Devil" for the U.S. market, including newly...
Movie page
The Art of Love
as Nikki DunnayStruggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
Movie page
Baron Blood
as Eva ArnoldA young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of...
Movie page
Deadlier Than the Male
as Irma EckmanBritish agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to...
Movie page
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts
as SelfIt’s sun, sea and sand celebrity style from exotic cities to fantasy islands. Come join in the...
Movie page
Carry On Behind
as Professor Anna VooshkaProfessors Vrooshka and Crump decide to visit an archaeological site to study the artifacts...
Movie page
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
as Paula SchultzA beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.
Movie page
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
as Miss PelhamAn American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an...
Movie page
Frontier Hellcat
as Annie DillmanOutlaws disguised as Indians commit crimes against settlers but Winnetou and Old Surehand are...
Movie page
The Swiss Conspiracy
as Rita JensenA Swiss bank discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer....
Movie page
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
as Ann BennettAfter successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of...
Movie page
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
as DidiTom Meade mistakenly dials the gorgeous European film star Didi at her Oregon hotel. Didi, who...
Movie page
Flashback
as Frau LustA young woman is released from an asylum where she has been since witnessing the murder of her...
Movie page
Probe
as Heideline 'Uli' UllmanThat hipster ring that special agent Hugh Lockwood wears? It's a camera, transmitting image and...
Movie page
Daniella by Night
as DaniellaDaniella, a fashion model, goes to Rome to replace a model who's been murdered. Once there, she...
Movie page
Jenny's War
as Eva GruenbergThis fact-based story follows a woman who launches a rescue of her Royal Air Force pilot son,...
Movie page
The Money Trap
as Lisa BaronWhen half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the...
Movie page
Ship of the Dead
as Mylène LoureauAfter a line of mischief Philip Gale, an American sailor, is lured into hiring on the "Yorikke",...
Movie page
Inside the Third Reich
as Magda GoebbelsA dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and...
Movie page
The Victors
as HelgaIntercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an...
Movie page
Howlers of the Dock
as Giulia GiommarelliFollows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy,...
Movie page
That's Carry On!
as Professor Anna VooshkaCelebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth...
Movie page
… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol
as SingerMusic student Susanne and her cousin Monika inherit an alpine pasture. They have no idea that...
Movie page
Meet Him and Die
as Perrone's SecretaryRay Lovelock stars as Massimo, a young undercover cop with a taste for violence and a thirst for...
Movie page
The Net
as Christa SonntagThe aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are...
Movie page
The Dolls
as Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica")This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written...
Movie page
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
as Herself (archive footage)
US Against the World
as SelfThis NBC Special from 1977 pitted celebrities from the worlds of film and TV in the United...
Movie page
Death Stone
as Kris PattersonKumar Cunningham loses his fiancee in Sri Lanka during a festival, only to discover her dead...
Movie page
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
as Magdalene KruschenSuccessful businessman Charles Kruschen (Donald Pilon) is accused of bludgeoning to death his...
Movie page
Percy's Progress
as ClarissaPercy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in...
Movie page
Don't Bother to Knock
as IngridAn Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys...
Movie page
Zeppelin
as Erika AltschulThe outbreak of World War I places Scots officer Geoffrey Richter-Douglas in an uncomfortable...
Movie page
Love, the Italian Way
as GretaA group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various...
Movie page
The Top of the Hill
as Eva HeggenerMichael Stone is a rising company executive who decides to chuck his career and marriage to...
Movie page
Percy
as HelgaEdwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer....
Movie page
Severed Ties
as Helena HarrisonA regeneration experiment on a severed arm goes awry, turning the limb into a murderous,...
Movie page
The Fantastic Seven
as Rebecca WayneAn intrepid team of stunt experts stage a daring air, sea and land rescue of a kidnapped movie...
Movie page
The Jukebox Kids
as Giulia CesariWhen a promising record company president is arrested, his daughter takes over his company to...
Movie page
The Last Days of Sharon Tate
as uncreditedThe documentary profiled the final and last days of Sharon Tate Polanski, a beloved actress and...
Movie page
Who Stole the Body?
as BrigitteEdouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if...
Movie page
Beloved Con Artist
as Barbara ShadwellBerliner Roberto Bolle smuggles himself as a stowaway on an ocean liner that of Hamburg gen New...
Movie page
The Oscar
as Kay BergdahlAn amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to...
Movie page
The Corrupt Ones
as Lilly ManciniFreelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful...
Movie page
The Day the Rains Came
as EllenA motorcycle gang in post-war Germany wreaks havok on a town, until one of their members begins...
Movie page
The Invincible Six
as ZariBased on the story "The Heroes of Yucca," The Invincible Six features a ragtag group of jewel...
Movie page
One Away
as ElsaTwo brothers plot to get their third brother out of jail.
Movie page
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
as selfDA-DUN DA-DUN DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUUUUN Henry Mancini’s iconic score, Peter...
Movie page
The Venetian Affair
as Sandra FaneFormer CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate...
Movie page
Sweet Ecstasy
as ElkeOlivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during...
Movie page
Die Reise nach Wien
as Toni SimonTwo women during WW2 living in a Hunsrück village embark on a trip to Vienna.
Movie page
Seduction by the Sea
as EvaA young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his...
Movie page
Jamaican Gold
as UrsulaA chance meeting leads two former college friends into a search for sunken treasure, a search...
Movie page
Bahía de Palma
as OlgaMario starts working as a pianist in a party hall in Palma de Mallorca, where he finds two...
Movie page
The Double McGuffin
as Prime Minister KuraSome school kids stumble across a briefcase full of money, when they go back for it, they find a...
Movie page
The Warrior Empress
as uncreditedThe poetess Sappho led an uprising against the corrupt government of the island of Lesbos.
Movie page
Alles nur Tarnung
as JuttaAfter trying to smuggle a package into prison for his father Willi, Harry and his girlfriend...
Movie page
One or the Other of Us
as MieziPsychological thriller that focuses on the intense conflict between a university professor and a...
Movie page
La Pica sul Pacifico
as RossanaAdelaide takes possession of an island in the Pacific inherited from her deceased husband. She...
Movie page
The Jack Benny Hour
as Elke Sommer / Maria PoppeniniThe Beach Boys appear in a skit with Benny and Hope as surfers. Jack trys to weasel Disneyland...
Movie page
Twisted Sex Vol. 5
as (archive)Twenty-third volume of Something Weird Videos on going series in their collection of American...
Movie page
Lily in Love
as Alicia BraunInsulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol...
Movie page
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
as uncreditedIn 1920, a squire decides to change his skin and pretends to be poor to a nice bourgeois family....
Movie page
Tausend Takte Übermut
as HerselfGerman music film set in a seaside hotel.
Movie page
Le Chien
as ElleIn this extremely hard to find TV movie from 1962, Delon plays the role of "He", a nameless man...
Movie page
Men and Noblemen
as CaterinaNicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of...
Movie page
Training Your Best Friend
as SelfMichael Kamer, dog trainer to the stars, will show you that you can teach old dog new tricks.
Movie page
L'amico del giaguaro
as GretaA grown man named Augusto escapes from an orphanage and after several unsuccessful attempts at...
Movie page
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
as SelfMario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror,...
Movie page
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as SelfThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...
TV Show page
Die Harald Schmidt Show
as SelfThe Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian...
TV Show page
The Six Million Dollar Man
as Dr. Ilse MartinFollow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent,...
TV Show page
The Love Boat
as Benita JamesPassengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...
TV Show page
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - GuestThe Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various...
TV Show page
St. Elsewhere
as uncreditedSt. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from...
TV Show page
Wetten, dass..?
as SelfA long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British...
TV Show page
Bambi Awards
as SelfThe Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...
TV Show page
The Muppet Show
as Self - Special Guest StarGo behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly...
TV Show page
The Bob Hope Show
as SelfThe Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC...
TV Show page
The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
TV Show page
The Winds of War
as uncreditedSet against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in...
TV Show page
Miss Universe
as HostMiss Universe is an annual international beauty pageant that is run by the United States-based...
TV Show page
The Danny Kaye Show
as SelfThe Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963...
TV Show page
Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna
as Isabel Von HohenstauffenAnastasia: The Mystery of Anna is a 1986 TV movie, starring Amy Irving, Rex Harrison, Olivia de...
TV Show page
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as The PrincessHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
TV Show page
Peter the Great
as CharlottePeter the Great is a 1986 NBC television mini-series starring Maximilian Schell as Russian...
TV Show page
Jenny's War
as Eva GruenbergJenny's War is a 1985 war television serial set during World War II, made by HTV in association...
TV Show page