Astrid Frank

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Astrid Frank (born August 9, 1944 in Berlin ; born Eike Pulwer ) is a former German actress .

Life

Eike Pulwer had trained as an actor and then started her first theater engagement in Hamburg . Further engagements took her to Munich and Berlin. She also celebrated a number of stage successes abroad, for example the native of Berlin. B. at the side of Fernandel in the Parisian Théâtre des Variétés . In France, where the artist was later to settle, she also took part in television productions (series Hallo Taxi ).

Since 1960 in front of the camera - both in the cinema, where she made her debut alongside Willy Millowitsch , as well as in the television film (series You write with ) - Eike Pulwer began to play under her maiden name, but gave up at the age of 19 internationally more catchy artist name Astrid Frank . She was initially used in the film mostly as an elegant seductress with supercooled eroticism, often as a leading actress in films such as Black Market of Love , Undress, Doll , Greta, the Stranger Came Naked and What Men Don't Think is Possible . Appearances in high-quality entertainment productions alongside experienced old stars such as Jean Gabin ( The Merciless ) or Louis de Funès ( The Stupid Pranks of the Rich ) remained the exception during her work in France.

Before moving to Paris at the end of the 1960s, Astrid Frank also took part in several guest TV series ( Die Hesselbach , The perpetrator on the trail , Salto Mortale , Sherlock Holmes ). Since the mid-1980s, she has retired from the film and television business; She was last seen in 1985 in an American television multipart based on a model by F. Scott Fitzgerald , Tender is the Night .

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SURNAME Frank, Astrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pulwer, Eike (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin