
Elke Sommer
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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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 3.485 |
Birthday | 1940-11-05 |
Place of Birth | Berlin, Germany |
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1964

A Shot in the Dark
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1996

Alles nur Tarnung
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1963

The Victors
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1968

The Wrecking Crew
5.6/57
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1979

The Prisoner of Zenda
5.6/34
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1963

The Prize
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1974

And Then There Were None
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1973

Lisa and the Devil
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1972

Baron Blood
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1967

Deadlier Than the Male
5.9/43
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1984

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1964

Frontier Hellcat
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2010

Elke Sommer erzählt...
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1976

The Swiss Conspiracy
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1965

The Money Trap
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1966

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
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1977

That's Carry On!
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1971

Zeppelin
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1965

The Dolls
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1975

Carry On Behind
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1979

The Fantastic Seven
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1966

The Oscar
5.1/14
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1971

Percy
4.3/10
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1974

Percy's Progress
3.9/8
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1979

The Double McGuffin
5.3/9
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1960

Howlers of the Dock
4.9/17
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1962

Bahía de Palma
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1977

US Against the World
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1980

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
6.4/16
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1989

Training Your Best Friend
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1965

The Art of Love
5.3/11
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1984

Lily in Love
6/3
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1968

They Came to Rob Las Vegas
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1978

The Astral Factor
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1965

Hotel der toten Gäste
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1976

Meet Him and Die
5.4/5
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1963

Who Stole the Body?
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2005

Ewig rauschen die Gelder
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1987

Death Stone
3/2
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1975

The Net
5/2
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1972

Probe
5.5/4
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1962

Sweet Ecstasy
4.5/8
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1993

Twisted Sex Vol. 5
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1974

One or the Other of Us
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2002

The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
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1961

Daniella by Night
3.2/5
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1999

The Last Days of Sharon Tate
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1961

Don't Bother to Knock
5.1/5
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1985

Jenny's War
6/1
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1963

… denn die Musik und die Liebe in Tirol
4.2/3
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1961

Geliebte Hochstaplerin
6/3
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1959

The Day the Rains Came
6.8/5
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1967

The Venetian Affair
4.7/7
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2000

Flashback
4.9/27
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1975

The House of Exorcism
4.9/27
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1973

Die Reise nach Wien
5.5/4
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1959

Ship of the Dead
6.5/22
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1978

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses
4.6/9
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1989

Himmelsheim
0/0
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1981

Der Mann im Pyjama
6.5/2
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1960

Himmel, Amor und Zwirn
0/0
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1962

Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt
4/1
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1960

Lampenfieber
6/1
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1961

Und sowas nennt sich Leben
7/1
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1962

Café Oriental
4.5/2
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1965

Tausend Takte Übermut
5.7/3
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1961

Auf Wiedersehen
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1963

Seduction by the Sea
5.9/7
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1968

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz
3.7/3
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1982

Inside the Third Reich
7.3/6
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1967

The Corrupt Ones
5.45/10
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1960

The Warrior Empress
5/1
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2000

Nicht mit uns
0/0
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1980

The Top of the Hill
0/0
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1959

La Pica sul Pacifico
5/2
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1960

Love, the Italian Way
4.4/5
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1965

The Jack Benny Hour
0/0
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1962

Un chien dans un jeu de quilles
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2005

Reblaus
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1992

Severed Ties
4.1/13
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2010

Life Is Too Long
5/3
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1988

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts
0/0
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1962

Nachts ging das Telefon
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1986

Hollywood Ghost Stories
4.4/5
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1999

Doppeltes Spiel mit Anne
0/0
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1976

One Away
4/2
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1970

The Invincible Six
2.7/3
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1971

Perlico - Perlaco
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1977

Nicht von gestern
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1959

L'amico del giaguaro
5/1
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1979

Jamaican Gold
4.3/3
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1962

Le Chien
5.2/4
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1959

The Jukebox Kids
5.7/8
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1959

Men and Noblemen
6.1/9
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2021

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood
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1997

Sunset Boulevard - 27 Meilen Amerika
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2004

Mario Bava: Operazione paura
6/1
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