1940-11-05 ( 84 years old ) in 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.
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Movies
Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
2021-05-03
Life Is Too Long
2010-08-26
Elke Sommer erzählt...
2010-01-01
Ewig rauschen die Gelder
2005-11-19
Reblaus
2005-11-13
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004-04-30
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
2002-01-01
Flashback
2000-04-06
Nicht mit uns
2000-01-01
Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne
1999-09-29
The Last Days of Sharon Tate
1999-07-25
Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
1997-04-14
Alles nur Tarnung
1996-11-14
Twisted Sex Vol. 5
1993-10-01
Severed Ties
1992-09-02
Training Your Best Friend
1989-07-12
Himmelsheim
1989-03-02
Death Stone
1987-07-02
Hollywood Ghost Stories
1986-09-24
Jenny's War
1985-10-25
Niemand weint für immer
1984-11-01
Lily in Love
1984-10-17
Inside the Third Reich
1982-05-09
Der Mann im Pyjama
1981-12-18
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
1980-03-16
The Top of the Hill
1980-02-06
Jamaican Gold
1979-12-31
The Prisoner of Zenda
1979-08-17
The Double McGuffin
1979-06-01
The Fantastic Seven
1979-05-30
I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
1978-09-08
The Astral Factor
1978-02-01
That's Carry On!
1977-11-10
US Against the World
1977-09-07
Nicht von gestern
1977-01-01
Meet Him and Die
1976-10-08
The Swiss Conspiracy
1976-03-01
One Away
1976-01-01
The Net
1975-12-25
Carry On Behind
1975-06-10
The House of Exorcism
1975-04-02
And Then There Were None
1974-09-24
Percy's Progress
1974-08-01
One or the Other of Us
1974-04-22
Die Reise nach Wien
1973-09-26
Lisa and the Devil
1973-05-08
Baron Blood
1972-02-25
Probe
1972-02-21
Perlico - Perlaco
1971-12-17
Zeppelin
1971-04-08
Percy
1971-02-18
The Invincible Six
1970-06-10
The Wrecking Crew
1968-12-30
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
1968-02-07
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
1968-01-03
Deadlier Than the Male
1967-02-12
The Corrupt Ones
1967-01-20
The Venetian Affair
1967-01-18
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
1966-06-08
The Oscar
1966-03-04
The Jack Benny Hour
1965-11-03
Tausend Takte Übermut
1965-09-10
The Money Trap
1965-09-07
The Art of Love
1965-06-30
Hotel der toten Gäste
1965-03-26
The Dolls
1965-01-27
Frontier Hellcat
1964-12-08
A Shot in the Dark
1964-06-23
The Prize
1963-12-25
… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol
1963-12-20
The Victors
1963-11-22
Seduction by the Sea
1963-05-22
Who Stole the Body?
1963-02-01
Nachts ging das Telefon
1962-11-02
Bahía de Palma
1962-10-22
Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
1962-08-22
Le Chien
1962-03-10
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
1962-03-08
Sweet Ecstasy
1962-03-07
Café Oriental
1962-02-16
Auf Wiedersehen
1961-12-22
Geliebte Hochstaplerin
1961-12-16
Don't Bother to Knock
1961-05-28
Daniella by Night
1961-04-28
Und sowas nennt sich Leben
1961-01-10
Love, the Italian Way
1960-12-22
The Warrior Empress
1960-08-24
Himmel, Amor und Zwirn
1960-07-07
Howlers of the Dock
1960-03-13
Lampenfieber
1960-03-03
The Day the Rains Came
1959-11-24
Ship of the Dead
1959-10-01
The Jukebox Kids
1959-08-13
La Pica sul Pacifico
1959-04-24
Men and Noblemen
1959-04-03
L'amico del giaguaro
1959-03-03
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