Marianne Koch

Marianne Koch

Born: August 19, 1931
in Munich, Baviére, Allemagne
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Marianne Koch (born August 19, 1931 in Munich) is a retired German actress of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for her appearances in spaghetti westerns and adventure films of the 1960s. She later worked as a television host and as a physician.

Between 1950 and 1971, Koch appeared in more than 65 films. In the haunting 1954 espionage thriller Night People she starred alongside Gregory Peck. Sergio Leone's 1964 production A Fistful of Dollars showcased her alongside Clint Eastwood as a civilian tormented by ruthless local gangsters, torn between her husband and child and the villains. In Germany she was probably best-loved for her many years of participation in the highly popular TV game show Was bin ich which ran from the 1950s until 1988 and achieved ratings of up to 75% at its peak.

In 1971, she resumed the medical studies she had broken off in the early 1950s to become an actress. She got her MD in 1974 and practiced medicine until 1997 as a specialist in Munich. In 1976, she was one of the initial hosts of Germany's pioneering talk show 3 nach 9 [Three After Nine], for which she was awarded one of the most prestigious awards of the German television industry, the Grimme Preis. She also hosted other television shows and had a medical advice program on radio.

In 1953, she married the physician Gerhard Freund, with whom she has two sons. The marriage ended in 1973 after Freund began an affair with Miss World 1956, Petra Schürmann, whom he later wed.

Marianne Koch is in a relationship with the publicist Peter Hamm since the mid 1980s.

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Loriot 100
Title: Loriot 100
Character: Self
Released: November 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Documentary about German comedian Loriot alias Vicco von Bülow, who would have been 100 years old in 2023.
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Marisol: Sergio Leone's Madonna in the West
Title: Marisol: Sergio Leone's Madonna in the West
Character: Self
Released: May 18, 2018
Type: Movie
An afternoon with Marianne Koch, who remembers the making of Sergio Leone's A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS, starring Clint Eastwood.
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Title: MDR um 4
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 2014
Type: TV
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Title: Stöckl
Character: Self
Released: January 28, 2013
Type: TV
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Title: Tietjen und Hirschhausen
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: Markus Lanz
Character: Self
Released: June 3, 2008
Type: TV
TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics.
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Title: Der Sonntags-Stammtisch
Character: Self
Released: October 14, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: WissenschaftsFORUM Petersberg
Character: herself
Released: June 25, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: Daheim & unterwegs
Character: self
Released: October 15, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Menschen bei Maischberger
Character: Self
Released: September 2, 2003
Type: TV
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Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Title: Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema
Character: Self - Actress
Released: September 22, 2001
Type: Movie
The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating portrait through unpublished testimonies of collaborators, actors, directors and critics who reconstruct every aspect of his creative activity.
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Title: Hart aber fair
Character: Self
Released: January 31, 2001
Type: TV
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Title: Menschen der Woche
Character: Self
Released: September 30, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Abendschau
Character: self
Released: May 4, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Münchner Runde
Released: January 17, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Maybrit Illner
Character: Self
Released: October 21, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Volle Kanne
Character: Self
Released: August 30, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Beckmann
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1999
Type: TV
Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.
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Title: Die Johannes B. Kerner Show
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Alpha Forum
Character: Self
Released: January 7, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Sabine Christiansen
Character: Self
Released: January 4, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Nachtstudio
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 1997
Type: TV
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Title: alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Character: Self
Released: December 27, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Riverboat
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 1992
Type: TV
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Title: DAS!
Character: Self
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: ZDF-Mittagsmagazin
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: Nachtcafé
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Leute
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1983
Type: TV
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Title: Wortwechsel
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Frauengeschichten
Character: herself
Released: March 19, 1981
Type: TV
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Title: Heut' abend
Character: Self
Released: February 3, 1980
Type: TV
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Title: NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Club 2
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Kölner Treff
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: III nach neun
Character: Self - Host
Released: November 19, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: III nach neun
Character: Self
Released: November 19, 1974
Type: TV
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Glückspilze
Title: Glückspilze
Released: September 4, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Dalli Dalli
Character: Self - Candidate
Released: May 13, 1971
Type: TV
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Title: Was wäre, wenn
Character: Self
Released: April 6, 1971
Type: TV
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Title: Sie und Er im Kreuzverhör
Released: March 1, 1971
Type: TV
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Title: Tournee
Released: November 25, 1970
Type: TV
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Title: Die Journalistin
Character: Renate Albrecht
Released: October 4, 1970
Type: TV
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Title: Münchner Bilderbogen
Character: Self
Released: February 3, 1970
Type: TV
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Spain Again
Title: Spain Again
Character: Kathy Foster
Released: June 7, 1969
Type: Movie
David (Mark Stevens) is a physician who returns to Spain 30 years after his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Now a member of a medical convention, he looks up old friends and finds his former lover, now a married woman with a flamenco-dancing daughter. He and the daughter (Manuela Vargas) have an immediate and mutual attraction to each other. He considers running away with the exotic beauty before asking his wife to join him for an extended vacation after the convention .
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The Unnaturals
Title: The Unnaturals
Character: Vivian Taylor
Released: May 30, 1969
Type: Movie
During a thunderstorm, a group of members of London's high society seek refuge in a remote mansion in the countryside. They are received by Uriat and his mother, who appears to be able to communicate with the dead. The guests engage in a séance, but it will reveal each and everyone's darkest secrets.
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Title: Der rasende Lokalreporter
Released: February 2, 1969
Type: TV
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Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Hannelore Krems
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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Sandy the Seal
Title: Sandy the Seal
Character: Karen van Heerden
Released: October 23, 1968
Type: Movie
When a lighthouse keeper takes in a seal in need and gives to his children to look after, the whole family is drawn into the shadowy world of illegal seal poaching. The family then finds themselves leading the fight to rid their coastal town of the criminals and save the seals.
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Title: Der Tod läuft hinterher
Character: Mary Hotkins
Released: December 27, 1967
Type: TV
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Sunscorched
Title: Sunscorched
Character: Anna-Lisa Schmidt
Released: April 27, 1967
Type: Movie
A group of four outlaws led by Abel Dragna Fraserville decide to settle in a small, civilized and peaceful town of 1,200 inhabitants in which even the sheriff, does not carry weapons. Soon the gunmen begin to make all kinds of misdeeds against the impassive gaze of the sheriff whose attitude is misunderstood by their neighbors.
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Clint the Stranger
Title: Clint the Stranger
Character: Julie Harrison
Released: April 14, 1967
Type: Movie
In CLINT THE STRANGER (CLINT EL SOLITARIO), also widely known as CLINT THE NEVADA'S LONER, Martin plays Clint Harrison, a gunfighter who has been on the run from a vengeful family for years. He returns to his home town to discover that his wife (Marianne Koch of FISTFUL OF DOLLARS fame) has taken his son and fled north to escape his unsavory reputations. Following her in an attempt to make amends, he rides into the middle of a land-grab war between a group of desperate farmers and an unscrupulous rancher named Shannon (Walter Byrnes from THE BIG GUNDOWN) and his brutal foreman (the always reliable Fernando Sancho). Promising his wife that he won't use this gun, Clint must stand by as Shannon's men eliminate the farmer's in a series of well-staged set pieces calculated to make the audience anticipate the inevitable moment when Clint is forced to turn his guns and settle accounts.
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Trunk to Cairo
Title: Trunk to Cairo
Character: Helga Schlieben
Released: June 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Audie plays a James Bond-type action hero assigned to destroy a Neo-Nazy weapons factory headed by nemesis George Sanders.
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Who Killed Johnny R.?
Title: Who Killed Johnny R.?
Character: Bea Bordet
Released: May 19, 1966
Type: Movie
An assumed-dead gangster wants to implicate a completely innocent man to pay for his crimes so he can give the slip to his avengers and persecutors.
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Title: Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: TV
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A Place Called Glory
Title: A Place Called Glory
Character: Jade Grande
Released: July 27, 1965
Type: Movie
Two celebrated gunfighters are separately hired to come to a small Canadian town in Manitoba named "Glory" for a showdown at high noon. But before they can do that, they join forces and take on a bandit gang that dominates the area.
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Title: Meine Melodie
Character: Self - Host
Released: May 24, 1965
Type: TV
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Coast of Skeletons
Title: Coast of Skeletons
Character: Helga
Released: March 19, 1965
Type: Movie
A former district officer is assigned to work on a team of diamond prospectors, who are busy double crossing each other until they are blown up having found bullion.
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Frozen Alive
Title: Frozen Alive
Character: Dr. Helen Wieland
Released: December 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder. a murder suspect.
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A Fistful of Dollars
Title: A Fistful of Dollars
Character: Marisol
Released: September 12, 1964
Type: Movie
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
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The Monster of London City
Title: The Monster of London City
Character: Ann Morlay
Released: July 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Then the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be very much alive in 1960s London as a series of brutal slayings by the Monster of London City has Scotland Yard baffled. In a macabre coincidence, a new play about the famous murderer is about to become a major West End hit... and the leading man is rapidly becoming the prime suspect!
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The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
Title: The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
Character: Elizabeth Kelly
Released: March 28, 1964
Type: Movie
A former sheriff begins to persecute the gang led by Pedro Ortiz, after his wife is taken away.
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Title: Tim Frazer - Der Fall Salinger
Character: Helen Baker
Released: January 10, 1964
Type: TV
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Death Drums Along the River
Title: Death Drums Along the River
Character: Dr. Inge Jung
Released: December 20, 1963
Type: Movie
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.
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Title: Zwischenmahlzeit
Character: Self
Released: November 27, 1963
Type: TV
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Title: Curd Jürgens erzählt...
Released: April 27, 1963
Type: TV
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The Black Panther of Ratana
Title: The Black Panther of Ratana
Character: Dr. Marina Keller
Released: March 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Murder mystery following the revenge for the theft of a sapphire from a Buddha in a Thailand temple.
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Title: Tim Frazer
Character: Helen Baker
Released: January 14, 1963
Type: TV
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The Devil's Agent
Title: The Devil's Agent
Character: Nora Gulden
Released: September 1, 1962
Type: Movie
German actor Peter van Eyck stars as Droste, a mild-mannered businessman who was an intelligence expert during World War II. When Droste runs into his old friend Baron Von Straub (Christopher Lee), the two rekindle a friendship that was interrupted by the war. However, when Von Straub asks Droste to deliver a small package to a friend in West Germany, the befuddled Droste is set up for a series of complicated spy games.
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Liebling, ich muß dich erschießen
Title: Liebling, ich muß dich erschießen
Character: Jeannine Messmer
Released: August 29, 1962
Type: Movie
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Hong Kong Hot Harbor
Title: Hong Kong Hot Harbor
Character: Joan Kent
Released: May 22, 1962
Type: Movie
German journalist Peter Holberg arrives in Hong Kong and, by accident, he is carrying a microfilm that was destined to local gang lord, Marek. Peter is helped by another German journalist, Joan Kent, and falls in love with a night-club dancer, Colette. Colette is actually working for Marek, but betrays the gang for love - at the ultimate cost to her. The HK Police will intervene just in time to prevent Peter from further losses.
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Die Fledermaus
Title: Die Fledermaus
Character: Rosalinde
Released: February 2, 1962
Type: Movie
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Napoléon II, the Eagle
Title: Napoléon II, the Eagle
Character: Empress Marie Louise
Released: November 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken in and raised by his grandfather, Emperor Francis, who made him an Austrian prince.
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Blind Justice
Title: Blind Justice
Character: Ingrid Hansen
Released: October 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A man is accused of murdering his wife. The state prosecutor assumes he did the deed to spend more time with his lover. But the woman in question says that his wife committed suicide in her presence and that the accused is innocent. Despite the objections of the prosecutor, the accused is set free and is found dead shortly thereafter. The prosecutor decides to pursue the case and comes upon a band of criminals, who sell German state secrets. Shortly before the investigation comes to a close, a woman is murdered. When a witness asserts to have seen him near the woman's dead body, the prosecutor himself ends up in court and must now prove his innocence.
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Spotlight on a Murderer
Title: Spotlight on a Murderer
Character: Edwige
Released: March 31, 1961
Type: Movie
An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.
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The Magnificent Rogue
Title: The Magnificent Rogue
Character: Hilde von Hessenlohe
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
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Heldinnen
Title: Heldinnen
Character: Minna von Barnhelm
Released: September 29, 1960
Type: Movie
A music comedy directed by Dietrich Haugk based on the play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
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Die Frau am dunklen Fenster
Title: Die Frau am dunklen Fenster
Character: Luise Konradin
Released: March 17, 1960
Type: Movie
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Title: Stars in der Manege
Character: Self
Released: April 11, 1959
Type: TV
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Frau im besten Mannesalter
Title: Frau im besten Mannesalter
Character: Carola Hauff
Released: January 29, 1959
Type: Movie
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Lady Country Doctor
Title: Lady Country Doctor
Character: Dr. Petra Jensen
Released: October 31, 1958
Type: Movie
A German village gets a new doctor, but the conservative folk have trouble accepting a female for the job.
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...und nichts als die Wahrheit
Title: ...und nichts als die Wahrheit
Character: Mingo Fabian
Released: August 7, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Italians They Are Crazy
Title: The Italians They Are Crazy
Character: Cristina
Released: April 5, 1958
Type: Movie
In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.
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The Fox of Paris
Title: The Fox of Paris
Character: Yvonne
Released: November 13, 1957
Type: Movie
Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretly transmit secret documents to the Allies. While carrying out this mission, the commander falls under the spell of a young French resistance fighter, Yvonne. He is discovered and arrested by the Gestapo. Yvonne and her group of resistance fighters will do everything to free him.
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Interlude
Title: Interlude
Character: Reni Fischer (as Marianne Cook)
Released: October 30, 1957
Type: Movie
A young woman touring Germany is caught between a married symphony conductor and a doctor from back home.
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Vater sein dagegen sehr
Title: Vater sein dagegen sehr
Character: Margot Ventura geb. Sonnemann
Released: September 12, 1957
Type: Movie
Margot is looking forward to moving into the old defense tower with her fiancé Lutz, a writer. Then the writer receives the news of his sister's death. Lutz is supposed to take in their children Traudl and Rudi and the dog Leo. Margot did not expect so much attachment...
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Der Stern von Afrika
Title: Der Stern von Afrika
Character: Brigitte
Released: August 13, 1957
Type: Movie
Biographic Movie of the German fighter ace, who was killed in a plane crash after over 150 kills in North Africa.
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Title: Zum blauen Bock
Character: Self
Released: August 3, 1957
Type: TV
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Salzburg Stories
Title: Salzburg Stories
Character: Konstanze
Released: January 25, 1957
Type: Movie
A wealthy citizen of Salzburg wants to write a play about ordinary people.
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Four Girls in Town
Title: Four Girls in Town
Character: Ina Schiller
Released: January 16, 1957
Type: Movie
Four young starlets, from various parts of the world, are called to Hollywood to test for the lead in a major film. Each is romantically pursued by the director, composer, playboy, and actor. Which one of an international quartette of beauties will replace Universal's glamour star in an upcoming Biblical epic?
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Wenn wir alle Engel wären
Title: Wenn wir alle Engel wären
Character: Elisabeth Kempenich
Released: September 20, 1956
Type: Movie
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Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Title: Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Character: Edith Danwitz - Mannequin
Released: March 28, 1956
Type: Movie
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Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Title: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Character: Constanze
Released: January 27, 1956
Type: Movie
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Two Blue Eyes
Title: Two Blue Eyes
Character: Christiane Neubert
Released: November 4, 1955
Type: Movie
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As Long as You Live
Title: As Long as You Live
Character: Teresa
Released: October 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Amidst the chaos of the Spanish Civil War, a nurse tends to a wounded pilot.
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Waltz King
Title: Waltz King
Character: Theres Thomasoni
Released: October 6, 1955
Type: Movie
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Der Schmied von St. Bartholomä
Title: Der Schmied von St. Bartholomä
Character: Marianne
Released: April 6, 1955
Type: Movie
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The Devil's General
Title: The Devil's General
Character: Dorothea 'Diddo' Geiss
Released: February 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Curt Jurgens stars as a courageous Luftwaffe officer. Jurgens loves the service, even though he barely tolerates the Hitler regime. Sickened by wartime Nazi atrocities, Jurgens renounces his government, and is imprisoned and tortured as a result. Once released, the general takes pity on a downtrodden Jewish family. This isolated act of kindness is a point in his favor when Jurgens stands before Satan himself for his final judgment. The Devil's General was based on an immensely successful postwar play by German author Carl Zuckmeyer.
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Ludwig II
Title: Ludwig II
Character: Princess Sophie
Released: January 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
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Title: Was bin ich?
Character: Panelist
Released: January 2, 1955
Type: TV
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Und der Himmel lacht dazu
Title: Und der Himmel lacht dazu
Character: Rosl
Released: November 23, 1954
Type: Movie
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Hubertus Castle
Title: Hubertus Castle
Character: Kitty, genannt Geislein
Released: August 24, 1954
Type: Movie
The count Egge is barely a visitor in his Alpine family castle Hubertus, being preoccupied with hunting. He's furious when his young adult sons miss an annual municipal hunting concession auction, being both in love with local commoner girls, deemed undesirable although their mother was an actress herself, as is their sister's lover, painter Forbeck. So comital heir Tassilo marries in secret, spare heir Willy courts 'discretely'. Then tragedy strikes, with further consequences for the whole comital family.
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Night People
Title: Night People
Character: Kathy Gerhardt
Released: March 11, 1954
Type: Movie
A US intelligence officer, stationed in Germany, is caught in a political dilemma when the Russians kidnap a young Army private, the son of prominent American businessman. In exchange for the soldier's return, the Russians attempt to barter a trade for an elderly German couple who they want for treason.
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Liebe und Trompetenblasen
Title: Liebe und Trompetenblasen
Character: Bettina von Brixen
Released: January 20, 1954
Type: Movie
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Die große Schuld
Title: Die große Schuld
Character: Ursula
Released: October 15, 1953
Type: Movie
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Der Klosterjäger
Title: Der Klosterjäger
Character: Gittli
Released: August 28, 1953
Type: Movie
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Skandal im Mädchenpensionat
Title: Skandal im Mädchenpensionat
Character: Marina von Leithen
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Three guardsmen who accidentally end up in a girls' boarding school after a merry night out have to disguise themselves in women's clothes to avoid detection.
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Wetterleuchten am Dachstein
Title: Wetterleuchten am Dachstein
Character: Christl, die junge Magd
Released: January 23, 1953
Type: Movie
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My Friend the Thief
Title: My Friend the Thief
Character: Resl
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
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Dr. Holl
Title: Dr. Holl
Character: Anna Zoie
Released: March 23, 1951
Type: Movie
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Czardas der Herzen
Title: Czardas der Herzen
Character: Reporterin
Released: January 26, 1951
Type: Movie
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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Der keusche Lebemann
Title: Der keusche Lebemann
Character: Gerti Seibold
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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Der Mann, der zweimal leben wollte
Title: Der Mann, der zweimal leben wollte
Character: Katja Hesse
Released: September 14, 1950
Type: Movie
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Title: Bambi Awards
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: TV
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.