Corny Collins

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Corny Collins (born December 18, 1933 in Berlin ; actually Gisela Szymanski ) is a German theater and film actress and voice actress .

Life

After school, Corny Collins completed an apprenticeship as a medical assistant. Günter Pfitzmann discovered her with a theater doctor for cabaret . There she performed with Wolfgang Neuss and Ursula Herking . In order to advance professionally, she took acting lessons. She had her first theater appearance in the play A Day in Seventh Heaven . The director and actor Axel von Ambesser noticed her talent and hired her in 1957 for a role in the film My Husband's Girlfriend , together with Peter Kraus . Although Corny Collins was now 25 years old, she continued to play teenage roles in films. As a voice actress she lent her voice and a. Ruby Dee ( Black Power ) and Marion Ross in the family series Happy Days .

After the Edgar Wallace film adaptation of The Indian Cloth (1963), she largely withdrew into private life. It was not until the late 1970s that she appeared again increasingly in television productions. She shot her last film Journey Without Return in 1989. After that, she could only be seen on stage.

Private life

Corny Collins was first married to the actor Christian Wolff and then to the Berlin neurologist Hermann Tillmann. She lives in Berlin-Zehlendorf . She was close friends with her colleague Mady Rahl until her death in August 2009.

Filmography

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Corny Collins. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .