Cast
Elke Sommer
Acting
Cast
Elke Sommer
Known for
Acting
Born
1940-11-05
From
Berlin, Germany
Biography
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.
Percy
as Helga
And Then There Were None
as Vera Clyde
A Shot in the Dark
as Maria Gambrelli
The Dolls
as Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica")
Mondo Hollywood
The Wrecking Crew
as Linka Karensky
The Prize
as Inger Lisa Andersson
Baron Blood
as Eva Arnold
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
as Self - Actress
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
as Ann Bennett
The Oscar
as Kay Bergdahl
Lisa and the Devil
as Lisa Reiner
The Victors
as Helga
Probe
as Heideline 'Uli' Ullman
Lily in Love
as Alicia Braun
Deadlier Than the Male
as Irma Eckman
Alles nur Tarnung
as Jutta
Love, the Italian Way
as Greta
Percy's Progress
as Clarissa
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
as Miss Pelham
Hollywood Ghost Stories
as Herself
US Against the World
as Self
That's Carry On!
as Professor Anna Vooshka (archive footage)
The Venetian Affair
as Sandra Fane
Frontier Hellcat
as Annie Dillman
Carry On Behind
as Professor Anna Vooshka
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
as Paula Schultz
Zeppelin
as Erika Altschul
Howlers of the Dock
as Giulia Giommarelli
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
as Didi
The Swiss Conspiracy
as Rita Jensen
The Money Trap
as Lisa Baron
The Fantastic Seven
as Rebecca Wayne
Don't Bother to Knock
as Ingrid
The Jukebox Kids
as Giulia Cesari
Geliebte Hochstaplerin
as Barbara Shadwell
The Astral Factor
as Chris Hartman
Severed Ties
as Helena Harrison
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
as Magdalene Kruschen
The Art of Love
as Nikki Dunnay
The House of Exorcism
as Lisa Reiner
The Double McGuffin
as Prime Minister Kura
What's a Carry On?
as Professor Anna Vooshka (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Corrupt Ones
as Lilly Mancini
L'amico del giaguaro
as Greta
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Countess Montparnasse
Hotel der toten Gäste
as Herself
One or the Other of Us
as Miezi
Death Stone
as Kris Patterson
Auf Wiedersehen
as Suzy Dalton
La Pica sul Pacifico
as Rossana
The Invincible Six
as Zari
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts
as Self
The Journey to Vienna
as Toni Simon
Life Is Too Long
as Alfis Mutter
Bahía de Palma
as Olga
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
as self
Ship of the Dead
as Mylène Loureau
Flashback
as Frau Lust
Le Chien
as Elle
Jenny's War
as Eva Gruenberg
The Day the Rains Came
as Ellen
The Net
as Christa Sonntag
Reblaus
as Maria Rüppel
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
Jamaican Gold
as Ursula
Who Stole the Body?
as Brigitte
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
as Self
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
as Ariane
Daniella by Night
as Daniella
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
as Renate Hecker
Meet Him and Die
as Perrone's Secretary
Seduction by the Sea
as Eva
Himmel, Amor und Zwirn
as Eva
Twisted Sex Vol. 5
as (archive)
Ewig rauschen die Gelder
as Mrs. von Korff
Tausend Takte Übermut
as Herself
Nachts ging das Telefon
as Mabel Meyer
The Last Days of Sharon Tate
Und sowas nennt sich Leben
as Britta
Niemand weint für immer
as Lou Parker
One Away
as Elsa
Lampenfieber
as Evelyne
Nicht von gestern
as Billie Dawn
Perlico - Perlaco
… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol
as Singer
Sweet Ecstasy
as Elke
Men and Noblemen
as Caterina
Training Your Best Friend
as Self
The Jack Benny Hour
as Elke Sommer / Maria Poppenini
The Warrior Empress
Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne
as Frau Lorenz
Elke Sommer erzählt...
as Self
Himmelsheim
as Helga Münzel
Café Oriental
as Sylvia
Nicht mit uns
as Andrea Paretti
Der Mann im Pyjama
as Frau Lachmann