Elke Sommer

Acting · 2.4 popularity

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Born: November 5, 1940
From: Berlin, Germany
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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.

Works

98 films

A Shot in the Dark

19647.2

The Oscar

19665.0

Lisa and the Devil

19736.2

And Then There Were None

19745.7

The Wrecking Crew

19685.7

Baron Blood

19726.1

The Prize

19636.7

Lily in Love

19846.3

Frontier Hellcat

19646.4

That's Carry On!

19775.8

Deadlier Than the Male

19675.9

Flashback

20004.9

The Money Trap

19655.1

Bahía de Palma

19629.0

The Art of Love

19655.5

The Venetian Affair

19664.9

The Victors

19636.3

Who Stole the Body?

19637.0

Carry On Behind

19755.5

A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

19806.0

Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika

1997

Hotel der toten Gäste

19656.1

The Prisoner of Zenda

19795.7

Jamaican Gold

19795.8

They Came to Rob Las Vegas

19685.9

Himmel, Amor und Zwirn

196010.0

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt

19627.0

Perlico - Perlaco

1971

The Swiss Conspiracy

19765.0

One Away

19765.7

The Double McGuffin

19795.0

Auf Wiedersehen

196110.0

The Astral Factor

19784.4

Meet Him and Die

19765.7

Love, the Italian Way

19604.4

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

19665.3

US Against the World

1977

Zeppelin

19716.2

Howlers of the Dock

19605.1

The Dolls

19655.3

The Fantastic Seven

19793.0

Percy

19714.3

Mondo Hollywood

19676.7

Percy's Progress

19744.0

The House of Exorcism

19754.5

The Net

19756.3

Reblaus

2005

The Corrupt Ones

19675.4

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

19683.9

Ship of the Dead

19596.6

What's a Carry On?

19987.7

The Warrior Empress

19606.0

Jenny's War

19856.0

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

20046.5

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

19784.8

Un chien dans un jeu de quilles

196210.0

Life Is Too Long

20105.0

Hollywood Ghost Stories

19865.3

Men and Noblemen

19596.5

Geliebte Hochstaplerin

19615.8

Probe

19725.8

Don't Bother to Knock

19614.8

One or the Other of Us

19744.7

Severed Ties

19924.6

The Day the Rains Came

19597.3

Training Your Best Friend

1989

The Invincible Six

19703.2

Café Oriental

19625.3

The Jack Benny Hour

19658.0

Seduction by the Sea

19635.7

Le Chien

19625.7

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

2021

Death Stone

19875.0

Daniella by Night

19614.1

The Journey to Vienna

19735.2

The Jukebox Kids

19595.8

Sweet Ecstasy

19624.1

Alles nur Tarnung

19964.0

Twisted Sex Vol. 5

1993

The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau

20027.0

L'amico del giaguaro

19596.5

Und sowas nennt sich Leben

19618.0

The Last Days of Sharon Tate

1999

In der Folterkammer des Barons

20178.0

La Pica sul Pacifico

19596.3

Ewig rauschen die Gelder

20057.5

Nicht mit uns

20009.0

Der Mann im Pyjama

19816.7

Tausend Takte Übermut

19656.6

Nachts ging das Telefon

19629.0

… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol

19635.6

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts

1988

Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne

19997.0

Niemand weint für immer

198410.0

Lampenfieber

19608.0

Elke Sommer erzählt...

2010

Nicht von gestern

19779.0

Himmelsheim

19898.0