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Elke Sommer

Elke Sommer

Actor · b. 1940 · 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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  • Movie7.2

    A Shot in the Dark

    1964 · 678 votes

  • Movie5.7

    And Then There Were None

    1974 · 117 votes

  • Movie6.7

    The Prize

    1963 · 119 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Las Vegas: 500 millones

    They Came to Rob Las Vegas

    1968 · 23 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Unter Geiern

    Frontier Hellcat

    1964 · 78 votes

  • Movie5.7

    The Wrecking Crew

    1968 · 74 votes

  • Movie5.1

    The Oscar

    1966 · 17 votes

  • Movie5.7

    The Prisoner of Zenda

    1979 · 39 votes

  • Movie5.5

    The Art of Love

    1965 · 14 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Deadlier Than the Male

    1967 · 55 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Lisa e il diavolo

    Lisa and the Devil

    1974 · 163 votes

  • Movie6.1

    Gli orrori del castello di Norimberga

    Baron Blood

    1972 · 152 votes

  • Movie5.8

    That's Carry On!

    1977 · 25 votes

  • Movie4.4

    The Astral Factor

    1978 · 18 votes

  • Movie5.3
  • Movie
  • Movie5.2

    The Double McGuffin

    1979 · 15 votes

  • Movie6.2

    The Victors

    1963 · 29 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Les Bricoleurs

    Who Stole the Body?

    1963 · 3 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie10.0

    Auf Wiedersehen

    1961 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.0
  • Movie3.0

    The Fantastic Seven

    1979 · 4 votes

  • Movie5.5

    Carry On Behind

    1975 · 59 votes

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  • TV7.5
  • TV7.4

    Die Harald Schmidt Show

    1995 · 21 votes

  • TV6.3

    The Love Boat

    1977 · 199 votes

  • TV6.6

    NDR Talk Show

    1979 · 5 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Dick Cavett Show

    1968 · 22 votes

  • TV5.7

    St. Elsewhere

    1982 · 93 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV2.8

    ZDF-Fernsehgarten

    1986 · 5 votes

  • TV7.4

    Wer weiß denn sowas?

    2015 · 13 votes

  • TV4.7

    Nachtcafé

    1987 · 3 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV5.6

    Wetten, dass..?

    1981 · 24 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV7.0

    The Bob Hope Show

    1950 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    Dinah!

    1974 · 4 votes

  • TV6.0

    Menschen der Woche

    2000 · 1 votes

  • TV9.0

    Tietjen und Bommes

    1997 · 1 votes

  • TV9.3

    Dalli Dalli

    1971 · 3 votes

  • TV2.0
  • TV6.0

    Miss Universe

    1955 · 3 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Danny Kaye Show

    1963 · 4 votes

  • TV7.0

    Heut' abend

    1980 · 1 votes

  • TV8.0

    The Muppet Show

    1976 · 363 votes