Elke Sommer

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
Birthday: 1940-11-05
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
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Movies List of Elke Sommer

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A Shot in the Dark

1964 Movie
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Alles nur Tarnung

1996 Movie
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The Victors

1963 Movie
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The Wrecking Crew

1968 Movie
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The Prisoner of Zenda

1979 Movie
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The Prize

1963 Movie
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Lisa and the Devil

1973 Movie
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Baron Blood

1972 Movie
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Frontier Hellcat

1964 Movie
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Filmlegenden. Deutsch

2005 Movie
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The Swiss Conspiracy

1976 Movie
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The Money Trap

1965 Movie
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That's Carry On!

1977 Movie
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Zeppelin

1971 Movie
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The Dolls

1965 Movie
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Carry On Behind

1975 Movie
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The Fantastic Seven

1979 Movie
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The Oscar

1966 Movie
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Percy

1971 Movie
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Percy's Progress

1974 Movie
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The Double McGuffin

1979 Movie
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Howlers of the Dock

1960 Movie
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Bahía de Palma

1962 Movie
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US Against the World

1977 Movie
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The Art of Love

1965 Movie
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Lily in Love

1984 Movie
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The Astral Factor

1978 Movie
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Meet Him and Die

1976 Movie
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Who Stole the Body?

1963 Movie
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Death Stone

1987 Movie
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The Net

1975 Movie
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Probe

1972 Movie
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Sweet Ecstasy

1962 Movie
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Twisted Sex Vol. 5

1993 Movie
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Daniella by Night

1961 Movie
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Don't Bother to Knock

1961 Movie
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Jenny's War

1985 Movie
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Beloved Con Artist

1961 Movie
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The Venetian Affair

1967 Movie
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Flashback

2000 Movie
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The House of Exorcism

1975 Movie
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Die Reise nach Wien

1973 Movie
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Ship of the Dead

1959 Movie
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Himmelsheim

1989 Movie
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Der Mann Im Pyjama

1981 Movie
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Lampenfieber

1960 Movie
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Café Oriental

1962 Movie
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Auf Wiedersehen

1961 Movie
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Seduction by the Sea

1963 Movie
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The Corrupt Ones

1967 Movie
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The Warrior Empress

1960 Movie
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Nicht mit uns

2000 Movie
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The Top of the Hill

1980 Movie
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La Pica sul Pacifico

1959 Movie
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Love, the Italian Way

1960 Movie
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The Jack Benny Hour

1965 Movie
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Reblaus

2005 Movie
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Severed Ties

1992 Movie
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Life Is Too Long

2010 Movie
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One Away

1976 Movie
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The Invincible Six

1970 Movie
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Perlico - Perlaco

1971 Movie
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Nicht von gestern

1977 Movie
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L'amico del giaguaro

1959 Movie
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Jamaican Gold

1979 Movie
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Le Chien

1962 Movie
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The Jukebox Kids

1959 Movie
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Men and Noblemen

1959 Movie