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
The Wrecking Crew (1968)
as Linka Karensky
The Art of Love (1965)
as Nikki Dunnay
The Oscar (1966)
as Kay Bergdahl
The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
as Countess Montparnasse
The Corrupt Ones (1967)
as Lilly Mancini
Baron Blood (1972)
as Eva Arnold
The Prize (1963)
as Inger Lisa Andersson
Auf Wiedersehen (1961)
as Suzy Dalton
Perlico - Perlaco (1971)
Actor
Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
as Irma Eckman
Jamaican Gold (1979)
as Ursula
That's Carry On! (1977)
as Professor Anna Vooshka (archive footage)
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1980)
as Miss Pelham
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
as Didi
Don't Bother to Knock (1961)
as Ingrid
Frontier Hellcat (1964)
as Annie Dillman
The Fantastic Seven (1979)
as Rebecca Wayne
Love, the Italian Way (1960)
as Greta
What's a Carry On? (1998)
as Professor Anna Vooshka (archive footage) (uncredited)
Who Stole the Body? (1963)
as Brigitte
The Money Trap (1965)
as Lisa Baron
US Against the World (1977)
as Self
They Came to Rob Las Vegas (1968)
as Ann Bennett
The Victors (1963)
as Helga
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika (1997)
as Self - Actress
Reblaus (2005)
as Maria Rüppel
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts (1988)
as Self
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (1968)
as Paula Schultz
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962)
as Renate Hecker
Carry On Behind (1975)
as Professor Anna Vooshka
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses (1978)
as Magdalene Kruschen
Mario Bava: Operazione paura (2004)
as Self
One or the Other of Us (1974)
as Miezi
Bahía de Palma (1962)
as Olga
The Double McGuffin (1979)
as Prime Minister Kura
The Day the Rains Came (1959)
as Ellen
Death Stone (1987)
as Kris Patterson
One Away (1976)
as Elsa
The Astral Factor (1978)
as Chris Hartman
The House of Exorcism (1975)
as Lisa Reiner
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Himmel, Amor und Zwirn (1960)
as Eva
Life Is Too Long (2010)
as Alfis Mutter
The Warrior Empress (1960)
Actor
The Jack Benny Hour (1965)
as Elke Sommer / Maria Poppenini
The Venetian Affair (1966)
as Sandra Fane
Hotel der toten Gäste (1965)
as Herself
Lily in Love (1984)
as Alicia Braun
Und sowas nennt sich Leben (1961)
as Britta
The Last Days of Sharon Tate (1999)
Actor
Zeppelin (1971)
as Erika Altschul
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau (2002)
as self
Jenny's War (1985)
as Eva Gruenberg
Howlers of the Dock (1960)
as Giulia Giommarelli
Ship of the Dead (1959)
as Mylène Loureau
Men and Noblemen (1959)
as Caterina
Twisted Sex Vol. 5 (1993)
as (archive)
The Jukebox Kids (1959)
as Giulia Cesari
The Swiss Conspiracy (1976)
as Rita Jensen
Der Mann im Pyjama (1981)
as Frau Lachmann
La Pica sul Pacifico (1959)
as Rossana
The Dolls (1965)
as Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica")
Flashback (2000)
as Frau Lust
L'amico del giaguaro (1959)
as Greta
The Journey to Vienna (1973)
as Toni Simon
Training Your Best Friend (1989)
as Self
In der Folterkammer des Barons (2017)
as self
The Net (1975)
as Christa Sonntag
Meet Him and Die (1976)
as Perrone's Secretary
Mondo Hollywood (1967)
Actor
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles (1962)
as Ariane
Percy (1971)
as Helga
Daniella by Night (1961)
as Daniella
Severed Ties (1992)
as Helena Harrison
Nachts ging das Telefon (1962)
as Mabel Meyer
Ewig rauschen die Gelder (2005)
as Mrs. von Korff
Probe (1972)
as Heideline 'Uli' Ullman
Percy's Progress (1974)
as Clarissa
Hollywood Ghost Stories (1986)
as Herself
The Invincible Six (1970)
as Zari
Niemand weint für immer (1984)
as Lou Parker
Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne (1999)
as Frau Lorenz
Alles nur Tarnung (1996)
as Jutta
… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol (1963)
as Singer
Sweet Ecstasy (1962)
as Elke
Le Chien (1962)
as Elle
Tausend Takte Übermut (1965)
as Herself
Lampenfieber (1960)
as Evelyne
Seduction by the Sea (1963)
as Eva
Geliebte Hochstaplerin (1961)
as Barbara Shadwell
Café Oriental (1962)
as Sylvia
Himmelsheim (1989)
as Helga Münzel
Nicht mit uns (2000)
as Andrea Paretti
Nicht von gestern (1977)
as Billie Dawn
Elke Sommer erzählt... (2010)
as Self