Elisabeth Müller (actress, 1926)

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Elisabeth Müller (born July 18, 1926 in Basel ; † December 11, 2006 in Sempach ) was a Swiss actress .

Life

The daughter of a professor of dentistry first took private acting lessons from her aunt, the stage actress Ellen Widmann, and graduated from the Zurich Drama School from 1944 to 1946 , where she also received her first stage engagement. In 1948 she brought Heinz Hilpert to Konstanz and two years later took her to the German Theater in Göttingen . Other stage stations were Giessen , Stuttgart , Lucerne and a number of touring theaters.

In 1947 she made her debut as a film actress in the production Matto reigns under the name Lisabet Müller . Her first major film success, Moselfahrt aus Liebeskummer (1953), made her one of the audience favorites of the 1950s . This popularity also resulted in appearances in English-language productions, so in 1956 alongside Robert Taylor in the Hollywood melodrama The Power and Its Prize and a little later alongside Robert Mitchum in the British war film Hill of Secrets . Müller celebrated her greatest television success in 1960 in the five-part television series Am grün Strand der Spree , based on the book of the same name by Hans Scholz . Besides Peter Pasetti , her partners were Bum Krüger , Werner Lieven , Malte Jaeger and Günter Pfitzmann . After further television offers, she mainly played theater.

Elisabeth Müller had been married to the director and cameraman Kurt Grigoleit since 1962 , whom she had met in 1958 while filming at Rommel calls Cairo .

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SURNAME Müller, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Lisabet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss film actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2006
Place of death Sempach