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.
★7.2
MOVIE1964
A Shot in the Dark
as Maria Gambrelli
★6.1
MOVIE1965
Hotel der toten Gäste
as Herself
★5.7
MOVIE1974
And Then There Were None
as Vera Clyde
★5.1
MOVIE1965
The Money Trap
as Lisa Baron
MOVIE2005
Reblaus
as Maria Rüppel
★6.1
MOVIE1972
Baron Blood
as Eva Arnold
★5.7
MOVIE1968
The Wrecking Crew
as Linka Karensky
MOVIE1971
Perlico - Perlaco
★5.0
MOVIE1966
The Oscar
as Kay Bergdahl
★6.2
MOVIE1973
Lisa and the Devil
as Lisa Reiner
★5.8
MOVIE1979
Jamaican Gold
as Ursula
★9.0
MOVIE1962
Bahía de Palma
as Olga
★7.0
MOVIE1963
Who Stole the Body?
as Brigitte
★5.5
MOVIE1965
The Art of Love
as Nikki Dunnay
★6.7
MOVIE1963
The Prize
as Inger Lisa Andersson
★5.9
MOVIE1968
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
as Ann Bennett
★6.3
MOVIE1984
Lily in Love
as Alicia Braun
★5.9
MOVIE1967
Deadlier Than the Male
as Irma Eckman
★4.9
MOVIE1966
The Venetian Affair
as Sandra Fane
★4.4
MOVIE1960
Love, the Italian Way
as Greta
★5.0
MOVIE1979
The Double McGuffin
as Prime Minister Kura
★5.7
MOVIE1979
The Prisoner of Zenda
as Countess Montparnasse
★5.7
MOVIE1976
One Away
as Elsa
★5.0
MOVIE1976
The Swiss Conspiracy
as Rita Jensen
★4.3
MOVIE1971
Percy
as Helga
★6.4
MOVIE1964
Frontier Hellcat
as Annie Dillman
★6.6
MOVIE1959
Ship of the Dead
as Mylène Loureau
★6.2
MOVIE1971
Zeppelin
as Erika Altschul
★10.0
MOVIE1960
Himmel, Amor und Zwirn
as Eva
★10.0
MOVIE1961
Auf Wiedersehen
as Suzy Dalton
★5.1
MOVIE1960
Howlers of the Dock
as Giulia Giommarelli
★5.0
MOVIE2010
Life Is Too Long
as Alfis Mutter
★6.0
MOVIE1980
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
as Miss Pelham
★6.4
MOVIE1963
The Victors
as Helga
★5.5
MOVIE1975
Carry On Behind
as Professor Anna Vooshka
★5.3
MOVIE1965
The Dolls
as Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica")
★5.7
MOVIE1976
Meet Him and Die
as Perrone's Secretary
★5.8
MOVIE1977
That's Carry On!
as Professor Anna Vooshka (archive footage)
★7.7
MOVIE1998
What's a Carry On?
as Professor Anna Vooshka (archive footage) (uncredited)
★4.4
MOVIE1978
The Astral Factor
as Chris Hartman
★4.9
MOVIE2000
Flashback
as Frau Lust
MOVIE1977
US Against the World
as Self
★4.8
MOVIE1961
Don't Bother to Knock
as Ingrid
★4.7
MOVIE1974
One or the Other of Us
as Miezi
★4.5
MOVIE1975
The House of Exorcism
as Lisa Reiner
★5.3
MOVIE1986
Hollywood Ghost Stories
as Herself
MOVIE1989
Training Your Best Friend
as Self
★4.0
MOVIE1974
Percy's Progress
as Clarissa
★4.8
MOVIE1978
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
as Magdalene Kruschen
★6.0
MOVIE1985
Jenny's War
as Eva Gruenberg
★5.4
MOVIE1967
The Corrupt Ones
as Lilly Mancini
★6.0
MOVIE1960
The Warrior Empress
★6.7
MOVIE1967
Mondo Hollywood
★4.6
MOVIE1992
Severed Ties
as Helena Harrison
★3.0
MOVIE1979
The Fantastic Seven
as Rebecca Wayne
★7.0
MOVIE1962
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
as Renate Hecker
★6.5
MOVIE2004
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
as Self
MOVIE1997
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
as Self - Actress
★6.3
MOVIE1975
The Net
as Christa Sonntag
★4.0
MOVIE1996
Alles nur Tarnung
as Jutta
★5.8
MOVIE1959
The Jukebox Kids
as Giulia Cesari
★6.3
MOVIE1959
La Pica sul Pacifico
as Rossana
★3.9
MOVIE1968
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
as Paula Schultz
★8.0
MOVIE1965
The Jack Benny Hour
as Elke Sommer / Maria Poppenini
★6.5
MOVIE1959
Men and Noblemen
as Caterina
★6.5
MOVIE1959
L'amico del giaguaro
as Greta
★5.8
MOVIE1972
Probe
as Heideline 'Uli' Ullman
★7.3
MOVIE1959
The Day the Rains Came
as Ellen
★7.0
MOVIE2002
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
as self
★6.6
MOVIE1965
Tausend Takte Übermut
as Herself
★5.3
MOVIE1962
Café Oriental
as Sylvia
★5.7
MOVIE1962
Le Chien
as Elle
★4.1
MOVIE1962
Sweet Ecstasy
as Elke
★3.2
MOVIE1970
The Invincible Six
as Zari
★5.7
MOVIE1963
Seduction by the Sea
as Eva
MOVIE1993
Twisted Sex Vol. 5
as (archive)
★8.0
MOVIE1960
Lampenfieber
as Evelyne
★5.0
MOVIE1987
Death Stone
as Kris Patterson
★5.3
MOVIE1966
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
as Didi
★10.0
MOVIE1984
Niemand weint für immer
as Lou Parker
MOVIE1999
The Last Days of Sharon Tate
★8.0
MOVIE1961
Und sowas nennt sich Leben
as Britta
★4.1
MOVIE1961
Daniella by Night
as Daniella
★5.6
MOVIE1963
… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol
as Singer
★6.7
MOVIE1981
Der Mann im Pyjama
as Frau Lachmann
★5.2
MOVIE1973
The Journey to Vienna
as Toni Simon
★10.0
MOVIE1962
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
as Ariane
MOVIE1988
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts
as Self
★5.8
MOVIE1961
Geliebte Hochstaplerin
as Barbara Shadwell
★7.0
MOVIE1999
Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne
as Frau Lorenz
★9.0
MOVIE1962
Nachts ging das Telefon
as Mabel Meyer
★8.0
MOVIE1989
Himmelsheim
as Helga Münzel
★7.5
MOVIE2005
Ewig rauschen die Gelder
as Mrs. von Korff
MOVIE2010
Elke Sommer erzählt...
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1977
Nicht von gestern
as Billie Dawn
MOVIE2021
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE2017
In der Folterkammer des Barons
as self
★9.0
MOVIE2000
Nicht mit uns
as Andrea Paretti