Elisabeth Müller (actress, 1926)
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 .
Filmography
Movies (complete)
- 1947: Matto rules
- 1952: The day before the wedding
- 1953: Trip to the Moselle from a heartache
- 1954: Dawn
- 1954: Ina Kahr's confession
- 1955: André and Ursula
- 1956: roses for Bettina
- 1956: Power and its price
- 1956: Beloved Corinna
- 1957: Taxi driver Bänz
- 1957: Scandal in Ischl
- 1957: El Hakim
- 1958: Dr. Crippen is alive
- 1958: Confess, Dr. Corda!
- 1959: Rommel calls Cairo
- 1959: Hill of Terror
- 1959: Every day is not a Sunday
watch TV
- 1957: Victoria
- 1960: On the green beach of the Spree
- 1966: three sisters
- 1968: Many are called Cain
- 1984: Derrick : The Girl in Jeans
- 1984: The old man : The dead man in the palace gardens
Radio plays (selection)
- 1964: John Galsworthy : Fight to the Knife (Chloe, Hornblower's wife) - Adaptation and director: Werner Hausmann (radio play adaptation - SR / SR DRS )
- 1964: Radomir Konstantinovic : The Flight of Ikaros (Daedalus' wife) - Director: Paul Pörtner (radio play - SR / HR )
literature
- Thomas Blubacher : Elisabeth Müller . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1286.
- Elisabeth Müller , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 20/2007 from May 19, 2007, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Web links
- Elisabeth Müller in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures by Elisabeth Müller In: Virtual History
personal data | |
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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 |