Elke Sommer

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1940-11-05 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Elke Sommer

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...

Acting

1964

A Shot in the Dark

as Maria Gambrelli

1996

1963

The Victors

as Helga

1968

The Wrecking Crew

as Linka Karensky

1979

The Prisoner of Zenda

as Countess Montparnasse

1963

The Prize

as Inger Lisa Andersson

1974

1973

Lisa and the Devil

as Lisa Reiner

1972

Baron Blood

as Eva Arnold

1967

1984

1964

Frontier Hellcat

as Annie Dillman

1976

The Swiss Conspiracy

as Rita Jensen

1965

The Money Trap

as Lisa Baron

1977

That's Carry On!

as Professor Anna Vooshka

1971

Zeppelin

as Erika Altschul

1965

The Dolls

as Ulla (segment "Il Trattato di Eugenetica")

1975

Carry On Behind

as Professor Anna Vooshka

1979

The Fantastic Seven

as Rebecca Wayne

1966

The Oscar

as Kay Bergdahl

1971

Percy

as Helga

1974

Percy's Progress

as Clarissa

1979

The Double McGuffin

as Prime Minister Kura

1960

Howlers of the Dock

as Giulia Giommarelli

1962

1965

The Art of Love

as Nikki Dunnay

1984

Lily in Love

as Alicia Braun

1968

1978

The Astral Factor

as Chris Hartman

1976

Meet Him and Die

as Perrone's Secretary

1963

2005

Ewig rauschen die Gelder

as Mrs. von Korff

1987

Death Stone

as Kris Patterson

1975

The Net

as Christa Sonntag

1972

Probe

as Heideline 'Uli' Ullman

1962

1993

Twisted Sex Vol. 5

as (archive)

1961

1985

Jenny's War

as Eva Gruenberg

1961

Geliebte Hochstaplerin

as Barbara Shadwell

1967

The Venetian Affair

as Sandra Fane

2000

Flashback

as Frau Lust

1975

The House of Exorcism

as Lisa Reiner

1973

Die Reise nach Wien

as Toni Simon

1959

Ship of the Dead

as Mylène Loureau

1978

I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses

as Magdalene Kruschen

1989

Himmelsheim

as Helga Münzel

1981

Der Mann im Pyjama

as Frau Lachmann

1960

Lampenfieber

as Evelyne

1962

1961

Auf Wiedersehen

as Suzy Dalton

1982

Inside the Third Reich

as Magda Goebbels

1967

The Corrupt Ones

as Lilly Mancini

2000

Nicht mit uns

as Andrea Paretti

1980

The Top of the Hill

as Eva Heggener

1959

1965

The Jack Benny Hour

as Elke Sommer / Maria Poppenini

2005

Reblaus

as Maria Rüppel

1992

Severed Ties

as Helena Harrison

2010

Life Is Too Long

as Alfis Mutter

1962

1999

1976

One Away

as Elsa

1977

Nicht von gestern

as Billie Dawn

1979

Jamaican Gold

as Ursula

1962

Le Chien

as Elle

1959

The Jukebox Kids

as Giulia Cesari

1959

Men and Noblemen

as Caterina

2021

Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood

as Herself (archive footage)

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