1940-11-05 Berlin, Germany
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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Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood | Herself (archive footage) | 2021-05-03 |
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Das Leben ist zu lang | Alfis Mutter | 2010-08-26 |
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Elke Sommer erzählt... | Self | 2010-01-01 |
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Reblaus | Maria Rüppel | 2005-11-13 |
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Ewig rauschen die Gelder | Mrs. von Korff | 2005-11-19 |
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Mario Bava: Operazione paura | Self | 2004-04-30 |
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The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau | self | 2002-01-01 |
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Nicht mit uns | Andrea Paretti | 2000-01-01 |
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Flashback - Mörderische Ferien | Frau Lust | 2000-04-06 |
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The Last Days of Sharon Tate | 1999-07-25 | |
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Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne | Frau Lorenz | 1999-09-29 |
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Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika | Self - Actress | 1997-04-14 |
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Alles nur Tarnung | Jutta | 1996-11-14 |
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Twisted Sex Vol. 5 | (archive) | 1993-10-01 |
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Severed Ties | Helena Harrison | 1992-09-02 |
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Training Your Best Friend | Self | 1989-07-12 |
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Himmelsheim | Helga Münzel | 1989-03-02 |
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Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts | Self | 1988-01-01 |
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Der Stein des Todes | Kris Patterson | 1987-07-02 |
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Hollywood Ghost Stories | Herself | 1986-09-24 |
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Jenny's War | Eva Gruenberg | 1985-10-25 |
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Lily in Love | Alicia Braun | 1984-10-17 |
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Niemand weint für immer | Lou Parker | 1984-11-01 |
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Inside the Third Reich | Magda Goebbels | 1982-05-09 |
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Der Mann im Pyjama | Frau Lachmann | 1981-12-18 |
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The Top of the Hill | Eva Heggener | 1980-02-06 |
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square | Miss Pelham | 1980-03-16 |
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Jamaican Gold | Ursula | 1979-12-31 |
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The Double McGuffin | Prime Minister Kura | 1979-06-01 |
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The Prisoner of Zenda | Countess Montparnasse | 1979-08-17 |
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The Fantastic Seven | Rebecca Wayne | 1979-05-30 |
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I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses | Magdalene Kruschen | 1978-09-08 |
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The Astral Factor | Chris Hartman | 1978-02-01 |
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Nicht von gestern | Billie Dawn | 1977-01-01 |
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US Against the World | Self | 1977-09-07 |
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That's Carry On! | Professor Anna Vooshka | 1977-11-10 |
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One Away | Elsa | 1976-01-01 |
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The Swiss Conspiracy | Rita Jensen | 1976-03-01 |
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Pronto ad uccidere | Perrone's Secretary | 1976-10-08 |
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Carry On Behind | Professor Anna Vooshka | 1975-06-10 |
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The House of Exorcism | Lisa Reiner | 1975-04-02 |
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Das Netz | Christa Sonntag | 1975-12-25 |
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And Then There Were None | Vera Clyde | 1974-09-24 |
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Einer von uns beiden | Miezi | 1974-04-22 |
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Percy's Progress | Clarissa | 1974-08-01 |
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Lisa e il diavolo | Lisa Reiner | 1973-05-08 |
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Die Reise nach Wien | Toni Simon | 1973-09-26 |
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Probe | Heideline 'Uli' Ullman | 1972-02-21 |
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Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga | Eva Arnold | 1972-02-25 |
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Zeppelin | Erika Altschul | 1971-04-08 |
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Perlico - Perlaco | 1971-12-17 | |
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Percy | Helga | 1971-02-18 |
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The Invincible Six | Zari | 1970-06-10 |
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The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz | Paula Schultz | 1968-01-03 |
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The Wrecking Crew | Linka Karensky | 1968-12-30 |
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Las Vegas: 500 millones | Ann Bennett | 1968-02-07 |
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The Venetian Affair | Sandra Fane | 1967-01-18 |
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Die Hölle von Macao | Lilly Mancini | 1967-01-20 |
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Deadlier Than the Male | Irma Eckman | 1967-02-12 |
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The Oscar | Kay Bergdahl | 1966-03-04 |
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Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! | Didi | 1966-06-08 |
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Le Bambole | Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica") | 1965-01-27 |
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Hotel der toten Gäste | Herself | 1965-03-26 |
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The Money Trap | Lisa Baron | 1965-09-07 |
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Tausend Takte Übermut | Herself | 1965-09-10 |
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The Jack Benny Hour | Elke Sommer / Maria Poppenini | 1965-11-03 |
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The Art of Love | Nikki Dunnay | 1965-06-30 |
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A Shot in the Dark | Maria Gambrelli | 1964-06-23 |
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Unter Geiern | Annie Dillman | 1964-12-08 |
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The Prize | Inger Lisa Andersson | 1963-12-25 |
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The Victors | Helga | 1963-11-22 |
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Verführung am Meer | Eva | 1963-05-22 |
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Les bricoleurs | Brigitte | 1963-02-01 |
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… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol | Singer | 1963-12-20 |
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Nachts ging das Telefon | Mabel Meyer | 1962-11-02 |
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Bahía de Palma | Olga | 1962-10-22 |
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Douce violence | Elke | 1962-03-07 |
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Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt | Renate Hecker | 1962-03-08 |
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Le Chien | Elle | 1962-03-10 |
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Un chien dans un jeu de quilles | Ariane | 1962-08-22 |
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Café Oriental | Sylvia | 1962-02-16 |
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De quoi tu te mêles Daniela! | Daniella | 1961-04-28 |
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Geliebte Hochstaplerin | Barbara Shadwell | 1961-12-16 |
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Auf Wiedersehen | Suzy Dalton | 1961-12-22 |
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Und sowas nennt sich Leben | Britta | 1961-01-10 |
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Don't Bother to Knock | Ingrid | 1961-05-28 |
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Urlatori Alla Sbarra | Giulia Giommarelli | 1960-03-13 |
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Himmel, Amor und Zwirn | Eva | 1960-07-07 |
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Lampenfieber | Evelyne | 1960-03-03 |
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Saffo - Venere di Lesbo | 1960-08-24 | |
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Intrigo a Taormina | Greta | 1960-12-22 |
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Uomini e nobiluomini | Caterina | 1959-04-03 |
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Das Totenschiff | Mylène Loureau | 1959-10-01 |
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La Pica sul Pacifico | Rossana | 1959-04-24 |
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Am Tag, als der Regen kam | Ellen | 1959-11-24 |
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L'amico del giaguaro | Greta | 1959-03-03 |
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Ragazzi del Juke-Box | Giulia Cesari | 1959-08-13 |
