Irene Prador

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Irene Prador (born July 16, 1911 in Vienna , † July 8, 1996 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actress , singer and author .

Life

Prador was born as the eldest daughter of the Jewish doctor Alfred Peiser and his wife, the actress Rose Lissmann. Prador had two younger sisters, Lilli Peiser, who later became actress Lilli Palmer , and Hilde Peiser. In the early 1930s, Prador emigrated to Paris under the auspices of the emerging National Socialism in Germany . In October 1933 Lilli Palmer also emigrated and moved to Prador in Paris. In order to make money, Prador and Palmer appeared together as singers in various cabarets and revue theaters in Paris . They called themselves Les Sœurs Viennoises and performed sentimental songs like Vienna, Vienna only you . Together with Palmer, Prador had engagements in the Monte Christo nightclub , then in the Casanova nightclub and finally in Le Shéhérézade , a then notorious nightclub with a brothel . Together with Palmer, Prador also received an engagement for the Folies Bergères , which they refused when they learned that they had to perform there " topless " ( torse nu ). After Palmer had gained a foothold in Great Britain and had already made the film Crime Unlimited , Prador emigrated from Paris to London in the mid-1930s . She initially stayed with Palmer, who had previously brought her mother and sister Hilde to London.

From the 1930s onwards, Prador also worked in films and later in television productions . In 1939 she played the role of dancer and singer Maria Bellini in the musical Rake's Progress . In the late 1930s, Prador also appeared as a singer and dancer at London revue theaters. In 1937 she appeared in the revue After Supper . In 1939 she launched the song Englishmen Never Make Love By Day (Text: Herbert Farjeon ; Music: Walter Leigh ), which was composed especially for her in the Little Revue at the Little Theater in London .

After the Second World War , Prador resumed her acting career. In 1948 she was seen in the crime thriller No Orchids for Miss Blanchard in the role of the gangster bride Olga , the friend of the film character Johnny . In later years she was used almost exclusively as a character actress in incisive supporting roles. In 1958 she played a French woman in the crime film The Snorkel . In the thriller Death is delayed , with Richard Attenborough in the lead role, she played the role of Sophia Gelderin , a passenger on the plane , in 1959 (Germany premiere in 1961) . In 1961 she took on the small role of Maisie in the Edgar Wallace film The Secret of the Yellow Daffodils, shot in two versions (German / English) in London . In 1978 she played the role of concentration camp inmate Maria Karlova in the miniseries Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family ; in the German dubbed version her role is voiced by Gisela Trowe . In 1981 she had a dramaturgically not unimportant supporting role as a neighbor and Stasi informant in the Walt Disney production Mit dem Wind nach Westen , a film drama about the successful escape of two families from East Germany in a hot air balloon, shot in Bavaria based on a true story Mrs. Roseler .

Prador has appeared in numerous British television series , including on secret assignment for John Drake , 1962 as Signora Vespa in the episode The Charitable Countess in the crime series Simon Templar , Jason King and most recently in 1992 in Lovejoy .

In the 1950s, Prador appeared in two productions of the Saturday Night Theater , a series of plays on the radio broadcast by BBC Radio 4 : in April 1957 in The Hoffman episode by Jeffrey Dell and in January 1958 in Miss Roach by Patrick Hamilton .

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 761.
  2. ↑ Tim Bergfelder, Christian Cargnelli: Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950. P. 173.
  3. ↑ Michael O. Huebner: Lilli Palmer. Your films - your life. Heyne publishing house. Munich 1986, ISBN 3-453-86107-8 , pp. 23-28.
  4. ^ Radio Times Television Supplement 1937.
  5. ^ The Little Revue. Little Theater, London 1939-1940 season
  6. ↑ James Crighton Robertson: The hidden cinema: British film censorship in action, 1913-1972. , P. 94.
  7. ^ The Snorkel Turner Classic Movies.
  8. ↑ The Snorkel ( Memento of the original from August 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Die-besten-Horrorfilme.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.die-besten-horrorfilme.de
  9. ↑ Jet Storm (1961). Turner Classic Movies
  10. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures. THE DEVIL'S DAFFODIL
  11. ^ Charitable Countess as Signora Vespa. Aveleyman.com (with photo)
  12. ↑ Saturday Night Theater 1943-1960. ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.ukonline.co.uk
personal data
SURNAME Prador, Irene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prador, Irène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress, singer and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1996
Place of death Berlin , Germany