Marthe Keller

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

Movies

109

Born: January 28, 1945
From: Basel, Switzerland

Biography

Marthe Keller (born 28 January 1945; Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss actress and opera director. She studied ballet as a child, but stopped after a skiing accident at age 16. She changed to acting, and worked in Berlin at the Schiller Theatre and the Berliner Ensemble. Keller's earliest film appearances were in Funeral in Berlin (1966, uncredited) and the German film Wilder Reiter GmbH (1967). She appeared in a series of French films in the 1970s, including Un cave (1971), La raison du plus fou (1973) and Toute une vie (And Now My Love, 1974). Her most famous American film appearances are her Golden Globe-nominated performance as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend in Marathon Man and her performance as a femme fatale Arab terrorist who leads an attack on the Super Bowl in Black Sunday, both of them were ill-fated characters at the climax of each film. Keller also acted with William Holden in the 1978 Billy Wilder film Fedora. She appeared alongside Al Pacino in the auto racing film Bobby Deerfield, and subsequently the two of them were involved in a relationship. Since then, Keller has worked more steadily in European cinema compared to American movies. Her later films include Dark Eyes, with Marcello Mastroianni. In 2001, Keller appeared in a Broadway adaptation of Abby Mann's play Judgment at Nuremberg as Mrs. Bertholt (the role played by Marlene Dietrich in the 1961 Stanley Kramer film version). She was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for this performance. In addition to her work in film and theatre, Keller has developed a career in classical music as a speaker and opera director. She has performed the speaking role of Joan of Arc in the oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher of Arthur Honegger on several occasions, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur. She has recorded the role for Deutsche Grammophon with Ozawa (DG 429 412-2). Keller has also recited the spoken part in Igor Stravinsky's Perséphone. She has performed classical music melodramas for speaker and piano in recital. The Swiss composer Michael Jarrell wrote the melodrama Cassandre, after the novel of Christa Wolf, for Keller, who gave the world premiere in 1994. Keller's first production as an opera director was Dialogues des Carmélites, for Opéra National du Rhin, in 1999. This production subsequently received a semi-staged performance in London that year. She has also directed Lucia di Lammermoor for Washington National Opera and for Los Angeles Opera. Her directorial debut at the Metropolitan Opera was in a 2004 production of Don Giovanni. Keller has a son, Alexandre (born 1971), from her relationship with Philippe de Broca. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marthe Keller, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

109 films

The Amateur

20256.9

One Life

20237.8

Hereafter

20106.2

From Behind

19995.1

Marathon Man

19767.2

Mars Express

20237.5

Tödliches Geld

199510.0

Page Eight

20116.6

Tout va bien c'est Noël!

20019.0

Fedora

19786.7

Par amour

20037.0

À deux pas du paradis

19927.0

In a Rush

20124.9

Unveiled

20185.8

Black Sunday

19776.7

Funeral in Berlin

19666.4

Kein Freibrief für Mord

1966

The Amateur

19815.4

Homo Faber (Trois femmes)

2015

Seven Minutes

19897.2

Una vittoria (TV)

198810.0

Morceaux de Cannes

20212.0

Red Kiss

19855.5

The Formula

19805.6

The Escape

20185.5

L'aigle à deux têtes

197510.0

After Love

20166.1

Bobby Deerfield

19775.8

Fragile

20065.5

The Missing Granddaughter

20076.0

The Staggering Girl

20195.7

Dark Eyes

19876.7

Miserere

20135.9

The Old Maid

19725.9

20076.1

Und nicht mehr Jessica

19659.0

Dans l'ombre du maître

2008

Liberate mio figlio

19937.0

Give Her the Moon

19705.8

Nuits blanches

19978.0

Heidi's Alpine Dream

202210.0

Chrysalis

20075.3

Down the Ancient Stairs

19755.5

The Hospice

19877.0

The Devil by the Tail

19696.1

Sing Me Back Home

20194.8

Pfeiffer

19676.0

Mein oder Dein

19647.0

My Wonderful Wanda

20215.9

Mon amie Max

19945.7

And Now My Love

19746.0

Time of the Wolf

20027.4

Der Platzanweiser

19837.0

Everybody Loves Jeanne

20226.2

The School of Flesh

19985.4

Amnesia

20155.5

Going the Distance: Remembering 'Marathon Man'

20017.3

Never Be Boring: Billy Wilder

20177.3

My Best Enemy

20115.8

My Little Sister

20206.4

Final Arrangements

20085.5

Joan Lui

19855.3

The Right of the Maddest

19736.4

Regie: Billy Wilder

1978

Tango

19708.0

Turbulences

199210.0

Pereira Declares

19956.7

Al Pacino: The Reluctant Star

20206.4

Only the Wind Knows the Answer

19745.7

Femmes de personne

19844.3

The Suburbs Are Everywhere

19735.0

Mariana Pineda

19658.0

Cortex

20086.5

The Holy Family

20194.0

Die Frau des Reporters

19867.0

The Violet Hour

2018

Lapse of Memory

19917.3

The Witness

20197.0

Im Kreis der Iris

19938.0

The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People

19767.0

Women

19975.2

The Hornet's Nest

19766.5

Breath of Life

20186.3

Murder In The Auvergne Mountains

20176.6

19976.0

Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher

199310.0

La veuve rusée

1969

The Giants

20117.1

Midnight Men: A John Schlesinger and Michael Childers Story

2026

La Ruelle au clair de lune

19888.0

La vie à l'envers

20146.0

Corinne und der Seebär

19668.0

Fall of a Body

19735.6

Jedermann Remixed

2011

Wilder Reiter GmbH

19677.5

La Nourrice

20047.0

A Loser

19725.3

Swan Song: The Story of Billy Wilder's Fedora

20146.0

Miséricorde

20165.6

Jedermann

1983

Nightsongs

20045.0

Modus Operandi

2008

Sous un autre jour

20093.6

La Résidence

2011

P'pa je serai serrurier

1972

Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt

19648.0

Bach rencontre Buxtehude

2010

Marthe Keller, du mur de Berlin à Hollywood

20198.0

Antiquitäten

1965