Lea Lander

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Lea Lander (* 1936 , also known as Lea Krüger ) is a German actress with an Italian film career.

Hardy Krüger's cousin Lea Krüger had a first small role as a teacher in Wolfgang Glück's What Not To Talk About - Gynecologist Dr. Brand intervenes (1958). This was followed by small parts in Don't leave me alone on Sunday (1959) and in Italian films ( The Tiger of Sardis , Bloody Silk ). From then on she called herself Lea Lander. In Federico Fellini's Julia and the Ghosts , she appeared as a party guest unnamed. She was first noticed in Fernando Di Leo's Giallo Amarsi paint , in which she played a call girl alongside Gianni Macchia and Nieves Navarro . In Pasquale Festa Campaniles adult comedy Why Do You Always Walk Around Naked? she played the wife of the president ( Gastone Moschin ) and in Le vergine di Bali the fiancée of George Ardisson .

In the 1970s she played mainly in Italian Poliziotteschi and Gialli such as Der Mondscheinkiller . In her most famous films, she was murdered by the film heroes at the end: in Mario Bava's Wild Dogs , she was tortured by Mr. 32 George Eastman and then shot by his friend Bisturi ( Don Backy ) in the end. In Die eiskalten Killer (1977) she is Gabriele Ferzetti's gangster lover , who is shot by the hero Marc Porel at the end . As a sadistic SS supervisor and torturer Dr. Erika Lessing in the trash eploitation film Desert Foxes Know No Mercy (1978) she also met a gruesome end after the counterattack of her US prisoners. 1978 her active film career also ended, except for a short comeback in 1992 as superior in Il giorno del porco .

Lander turned to production and published in this capacity u. a. the Bavas Wild Dogs , which hadn't been seen before.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1958: What not to talk about - gynecologist Dr. Brand intervenes
  • 1959: Don't leave me alone on Sunday
  • 1963: The Tiger of Sardis (Goliath e la schiava ribelle)
  • 1964: Bloody silk (Sei donne per l'assassino)
  • 1969: Why do you always walk around naked? (Dove vai tutta nuda?)
  • 1974: Wild Dogs (Cani arrabbiati)
  • 1976: The moonlight killer (4 minuti per 4 miliardi)
  • 1977: Desert foxes have no mercy (Kaput Lager - Gli ultimi giorni delle SS)
  • 1978: The Ice Cold Killer (Porci con la P38)
  • 1978: Zanna Bianca e il grande Kid
  • 1992: Il giorno del porco

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personal data
SURNAME Lander, Lea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krüger, Lea (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1936