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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Berlin, Germany, 1940-11-05

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	L'amico del giaguaro	Greta	50
2	1959	Men and Noblemen	Caterina	61
3	1959	La Pica sul Pacifico	Rossana	50
4	1959	The Jukebox Kids	Giulia Cesari	57
5	1959	Ship of the Dead	Mylène Loureau	65
6	1959	The Day the Rains Came	Ellen	68
7	1960	Lampenfieber	Evelyne	60
8	1960	Howlers of the Dock	Giulia Giommarelli	49
9	1960	Himmel, Amor und Zwirn	Eva	0
10	1960	The Warrior Empress		55
11	1960	Love, the Italian Way	Greta	44
12	1961	Und sowas nennt sich Leben	Britta	70
13	1961	Daniella by Night	Daniella	32
14	1961	Don't Bother to Knock	Ingrid	51
15	1961	Geliebte Hochstaplerin	Barbara Shadwell	60
16	1961	Auf Wiedersehen	Suzy Dalton	0
17	1962	Café Oriental	Sylvia	45
18	1962	Sweet Ecstasy	Elke	41
19	1962	Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt	Renate Hecker	40
20	1962	Le Chien	Elle	52
21	1962	Un chien dans un jeu de quilles	Ariane	0
22	1962	Bahía de Palma	Olga	0
23	1962	Nachts ging das Telefon	Mabel Meyer	0
24	1963	Who Stole the Body?	Brigitte	65
25	1963	Seduction by the Sea	Eva	59
26	1963	The Victors	Helga	63
27	1963	… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol	Singer	42
28	1963	The Prize	Inger Lisa Andersson	68
29	1964	A Shot in the Dark	Maria Gambrelli	72
30	1964	Frontier Hellcat	Annie Dillman	63
31	1965	The Dolls	Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica")	54
32	1965	Hotel der toten Gäste	Herself	38
33	1965	The Art of Love	Nikki Dunnay	53
34	1965	The Money Trap	Lisa Baron	50
35	1965	Tausend Takte Übermut	Herself	58
36	1965	The Jack Benny Hour	Elke Sommer / Maria Poppenini	0
37	1966	The Oscar	Kay Bergdahl	51
38	1966	Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!	Didi	51
39	1967	The Venetian Affair	Sandra Fane	49
40	1967	The Corrupt Ones	Lilly Mancini	55
41	1967	Deadlier Than the Male	Irma Eckman	59
42	1968	The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz	Paula Schultz	34
43	1968	They Came to Rob Las Vegas	Ann Bennett	57
44	1968	The Wrecking Crew	Linka Karensky	57
45	1970	The Invincible Six	Zari	27
46	1971	Percy	Helga	40
47	1971	Zeppelin	Erika Altschul	62
48	1971	Perlico - Perlaco		0
49	1972	Probe	Heideline 'Uli' Ullman	55
50	1972	Baron Blood	Eva Arnold	62
51	1973	Lisa and the Devil	Lisa Reiner	63
52	1973	Die Reise nach Wien	Toni Simon	55
53	1974	One or the Other of Us	Miezi	48
54	1974	Percy's Progress	Clarissa	36
55	1974	And Then There Were None	Vera Clyde	57
56	1975	The House of Exorcism	Lisa Reiner	47
57	1975	Carry On Behind	Professor Anna Vooshka	55
58	1975	The Net	Christa Sonntag	50
59	1976	One Away	Elsa	40
60	1976	The Swiss Conspiracy	Rita Jensen	49
61	1976	Meet Him and Die	Perrone's Secretary	54
62	1977	Nicht von gestern	Billie Dawn	0
63	1977	US Against the World	Self	0
64	1977	That's Carry On!	Professor Anna Vooshka	57
65	1978	The Astral Factor	Chris Hartman	40
66	1978	I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses	Magdalene Kruschen	46
67	1979	The Fantastic Seven	Rebecca Wayne	15
68	1979	The Double McGuffin	Prime Minister Kura	53
69	1979	The Prisoner of Zenda	Countess Montparnasse	56
70	1979	Jamaican Gold	Ursula	43
71	1980	The Top of the Hill	Eva Heggener	0
72	1980	A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square	Miss Pelham	64
73	1981	Der Mann im Pyjama	Frau Lachmann	65
74	1982	Inside the Third Reich	Magda Goebbels	72
75	1984	Lily in Love	Alicia Braun	60
76	1984	Niemand weint für immer	Lou Parker	0
77	1985	Jenny's War	Eva Gruenberg	60
78	1986	Hollywood Ghost Stories	Herself	44
79	1987	Death Stone	Kris Patterson	30
80	1988	Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts	Self	0
81	1989	Himmelsheim	Helga Münzel	0
82	1989	Training Your Best Friend	Self	0
83	1992	Severed Ties	Helena Harrison	41
84	1993	Twisted Sex Vol. 5	(archive)	0
85	1996	Alles nur Tarnung	Jutta	27
86	1997	Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika	Self - Actress	0
87	1999	The Last Days of Sharon Tate		0
88	1999	Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne	Frau Lorenz	0
89	2000	Nicht mit uns	Andrea Paretti	0
90	2000	Flashback	Frau Lust	49
91	2002	The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau	self	0
92	2004	Mario Bava: Operazione paura	Self	60
93	2005	Reblaus	Maria Rüppel	0
94	2005	Ewig rauschen die Gelder	Mrs. von Korff	80
95	2010	Elke Sommer erzählt...	Self	0
96	2010	Life Is Too Long	Alfis Mutter	50
97	2021	Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood	Herself (archive footage)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Bambi-Verleihung	Self	90
2	1950	The Bob Hope Show	Self	70
3	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	The Princess	86
4	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
5	1954	Reflets de Cannes	Self	20
6	1955	Miss Universe	Host	60
7	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
8	1959	Stars in the Ring	Self	53
9	1961	Musik aus Studio B	Self	0
10	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
11	1963	The Danny Kaye Show	Self	63
12	1964	Der goldene Schuß	Self	60
13	1964	Zwischenstation	Self	0
14	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
15	1969	Unsere kleine Show	Self	0
16	1969	Wünsch dir was	Self	0
17	1970	Münchner Bilderbogen	Self	0
18	1971	Dalli Dalli	Self	80
19	1971	Dalli Dalli	Self - Candidate	80
20	1973	The Bobby Darin Show		0
21	1973	Je später der Abend	Self	0
22	1974	The Six Million Dollar Man	Dr. Ilse Martin	73
23	1974	Der große Preis	Self	60
24	1974	Dinah!	Self	67
25	1975	Schnick-Schnack	Self	0
26	1976	The Muppet Show	Self - Special Guest Star	80
27	1977	The Love Boat	Benita James	63
28	1978	Bio’s Bahnhof	Self	0
29	1979	NDR Talk Show	Self	65
30	1979	Die Pyramide	Self - Musician	60
31	1980	Verstehen Sie Spaß?	Self	38
32	1980	Heut' abend	Self	0
33	1981	Wetten, dass..?	Self	53
34	1982	Krimistunde		90
35	1982	St. Elsewhere		55
36	1983	The Winds of War		73
37	1985	Jenny's War	Eva Gruenberg	55
38	1986	Peter the Great	Charlotte	80
39	1986	ZDF-Fernsehgarten	Self	15
40	1986	Showgeschichten	Self	0
41	1986	Anastasia - The Mystery of Anna	Isabel Von Hohenstauffen	66
42	1987	Nachtcafé	Self	47
43	1987	Na siehste!	Self	0
44	1990	Schmidteinander		80
45	1993	Destiny Ridge	Anna Hansen	10
46	1993	Happy Holiday	Isabella Scattini	0
47	1994	Florian III	Sonja Carpenter	0
48	1994	alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio	Self	50
49	1995	Die Harald Schmidt Show	Self	70
50	1997	Tietjen und Bommes	Self	0
51	1999	Gisbert		70
52	2000	Menschen der Woche	Self	60
53	2001	Die WIB-Schaukel	self	0
54	2006	Filmlegenden. Deutsch	Self	80
55	2006	Lafer! Lichter! Lecker!	Self	20
56	2015	Wer weiß denn sowas?	Self	76

Elke Sommer

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