Sybille Schmitz

Sybille Schmitz

Born: December 2, 1909
Died: April 13, 1955
in Düren, Germany
Sybille Maria Christina Schmitz (2 December 1909 – 13 April 1955) was a German actress.

Schmitz attended an acting school in Cologne and got her first engagement at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1927. Only one year later, she made her film debut with Freie Fahrt (1928), which attracted her first attention from critics. Her other early movies include Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), Dreyer's Vampyr (1932), and eventually F.P.1 (1932), where she played her first leading role.

Schmitz established herself as a prominent actress in German cinema with the films which followed; including Der Herr der Welt (1934), Abschiedswalzer (1934), Ein idealer Gatte (1935), and Fährmann Maria (1936). She also had roles in Die Umwege des schönen Karl (1937), Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1938), Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit (1939), Trenck, der Pandur (1940) and Titanic (1943)

Movies for Sybille Schmitz...

Dance with Death: The Ufa Star Sybille Schmitz
Title: Dance with Death: The Ufa Star Sybille Schmitz
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 2000
Type: Movie
A documentary of the life of German actress Sybille Schmitz (1909–1955) who rose to prominence in the German cinema of the 1930s and whose final years were used as the basis for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1982 film 'Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss'.
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Vincent Price's Dracula
Title: Vincent Price's Dracula
Character: Léone - (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Vincent Price hosts this documentary exploring the historical myths surrounding vampires.
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The House on the Coast
Title: The House on the Coast
Character: Anna
Released: June 30, 1954
Type: Movie
The story takes place in a town on Adriatic coast. Mother wants to marry her daughter to a wealthy doctor, but her plan proves to be challenging as they're both seduced by a handsome smuggler.
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Illusion in Moll
Title: Illusion in Moll
Character: Maria Alsbacher
Released: December 18, 1952
Type: Movie
After the death of her husband (Albrecht Schoenhals) wealthy but lonely hotel owner Maria Alsbacher (Sybille Schmitz) falls in love with a charming bandleader and singer (Maurice Teynac) without realizing that he is only behind her money. When she decides to marry him, her son (Hardy Krüger) enlists the help of his tragically ill fiancee Lydia (Hildegard Knef) to unmask this man for the villain he really is.
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Crown Jewels
Title: Crown Jewels
Character: Eva Skeravenen
Released: December 8, 1950
Type: Movie
As foreign troops occupy the country, the government commissions a jeweler to bring the crown jewels to safety.
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Sensation im Savoy
Title: Sensation im Savoy
Character: Vera Gordon
Released: September 22, 1950
Type: Movie
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Die Lüge
Title: Die Lüge
Character: Susanne Gruber
Released: August 10, 1950
Type: Movie
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The Last Night
Title: The Last Night
Character: Renée Meurier
Released: February 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.
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Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Title: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Character: Nelly Dreifuss
Released: December 11, 1947
Type: Movie
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and their own actions.
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Das Leben ruft
Title: Das Leben ruft
Character: Hella Warkentin
Released: December 20, 1944
Type: Movie
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Die Hochstaplerin
Title: Die Hochstaplerin
Character: Thea Varèn
Released: January 7, 1944
Type: Movie
A fake countess falls in love with an honest man.
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Titanic
Title: Titanic
Character: Sigrid Olinsky
Released: November 10, 1943
Type: Movie
This little-known German film retells the true story of the British ocean liner that met a tragic fate. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer plays the president of the White Star Line, who unwisely pressed the Titanic's captain (Otto Wernicke) to make the swiftest possible crossing to New York.
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Vom Schicksal verweht
Title: Vom Schicksal verweht
Character: Dr. Virginia Larsen
Released: July 24, 1942
Type: Movie
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Wetterleuchten um Barbara
Title: Wetterleuchten um Barbara
Character: Barbara Stammer
Released: October 17, 1941
Type: Movie
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Clarissa
Title: Clarissa
Character: Clarissa von Reckwitz
Released: September 8, 1941
Type: Movie
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Trenck, der Pandur
Title: Trenck, der Pandur
Character: Prinzessin Deinartstein
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of empress Maria Theresia of Austria garnished with espionage and twisted love affairs.
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Die fremde Frau
Title: Die fremde Frau
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
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Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit
Title: Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit
Character: Eva
Released: July 17, 1939
Type: Movie
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Hotel Sacher
Title: Hotel Sacher
Character: Nadja Woroneff
Released: March 15, 1939
Type: Movie
Vienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the First World War. In Hotel Sacher, the mood is excellent; and although the political atmosphere is charged, there’s an undercurrent of hate and intolerance in the air. It is with this background that Nadja, a Russian spy, meets the Austrian civil servant Stefan. He loves her, but comes under suspicion of being an agent because of this love.
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Tanz auf dem Vulkan
Title: Tanz auf dem Vulkan
Character: Gräfin Héloise Cambouilly
Released: November 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau's scornful jests. That would be a somewhat tolerable situation if it weren't for the fact that Debureau has fallen for a countess, who happens to be the King's mistress.
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The Stars Shine
Title: The Stars Shine
Character: Gast
Released: March 17, 1938
Type: Movie
German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
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Die Umwege des schönen Karl
Title: Die Umwege des schönen Karl
Character: Lu Donon - Tochter
Released: January 30, 1938
Type: Movie
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Signal in der Nacht
Title: Signal in der Nacht
Character: Brigitte von Schachen
Released: September 30, 1937
Type: Movie
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Die Kronzeugin
Title: Die Kronzeugin
Character: Jelena Rakowska
Released: April 20, 1937
Type: Movie
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The Unknown
Title: The Unknown
Character: Madeleine
Released: November 12, 1936
Type: Movie
The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering what drove the girl to such a grisly fate. The film then flashes back to months before, showing the torrid love affair between a young cabaret singer and a rich playboy that ultimately results in tragedy for the girl.
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Die Leuchter des Kaisers
Title: Die Leuchter des Kaisers
Character: Anna Demidow
Released: February 14, 1936
Type: Movie
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Ferryman Maria
Title: Ferryman Maria
Character: Maria
Released: January 7, 1936
Type: Movie
A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she loves.
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I Was Jack Mortimer
Title: I Was Jack Mortimer
Character: Winifred Montemayor
Released: October 16, 1935
Type: Movie
The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersection from the backseat of his taxi. The shot is not heard during the traffic noise. The taxi driver, Sponer, sitting in his car with the now-dead Mortimer, goes into a panic.
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Wenn die Musik nicht wär
Title: Wenn die Musik nicht wär
Character: Ilonka Badacz
Released: September 25, 1935
Type: Movie
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An Ideal Husband
Title: An Ideal Husband
Character: Gloria Cheveley
Released: September 5, 1935
Type: Movie
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
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Stradivari
Title: Stradivari
Character: Maria Belloni
Released: August 25, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owner. He and his Italian fiancée are separated by the First World War, and he is badly wounded.
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Punks kommt aus Amerika
Title: Punks kommt aus Amerika
Character: Britta Geistenberg
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
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Oberwachtmeister Schwenke
Title: Oberwachtmeister Schwenke
Character: Erna Zuwade, Stütze bei Wenkstern
Released: January 14, 1935
Type: Movie
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Farewell Waltz
Title: Farewell Waltz
Character: George Sand
Released: October 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Warsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When his professor learns that Polish revolutionaries want to persuade Chopin to take part in their uprising, he and Constantia hatch a plan to keep Chopin away from the revolution: Constantia pretends that she no longer loves him, so that Chopin accepts an offer to go to a concert in Paris. There, however, he meets the famous writer George Sand and falls in love with her.
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Master of the World
Title: Master of the World
Character: Vilma, seine Frau
Released: August 11, 1934
Type: Movie
A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing humans in jeopardy. But the machine itself turns out to have disastrous effects on the people involved.
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Musik im Blut
Title: Musik im Blut
Character: Carola, seine Nichte
Released: July 31, 1934
Type: Movie
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Rivalen der Luft
Title: Rivalen der Luft
Character: Sportfliegerin Lisa Holm
Released: January 19, 1934
Type: Movie
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F.P.1 Doesn't Answer
Title: F.P.1 Doesn't Answer
Character: Claire Lennartz
Released: December 22, 1932
Type: Movie
F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight can stop. Yet a saboteur tries to sink the technical wonder in this classic German science fiction film from 1932. The film was also created with English and French speaking actors at the same time.
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Vampyr
Title: Vampyr
Character: Léone
Released: May 6, 1932
Type: Movie
A student of the occult encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside of Paris.
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Diary of a Lost Girl
Title: Diary of a Lost Girl
Character: Elisabeth
Released: September 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
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Freie Fahrt
Title: Freie Fahrt
Released: December 7, 1928
Type: Movie
The struggels of the German proletariat over the course of several centuries. Propaganda film by the Social Democratic Party.
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Accident
Title: Accident
Released: November 6, 1928
Type: Movie
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.