Marianna Hill

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Marianna Hill , sometimes also: Mariana Hill (born February 9, 1942 in Santa Barbara , California ) is an American actress of German-Spanish descent.

Life

When she was a child, Marianna Schwarzkopf traveled around the world with her family. Her father was a building contractor and also oversaw projects in Canada , Spain and the UK . She learned several languages ​​and dialects early on. As a teenager she started acting at the La Jolla Theater in California and worked as a model . She later trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York . One of their teachers there was Sanford Meisner .

Since 1960 she has been a regular guest star in various television series, where she often embodied exotic beauties because of her appearance and her linguistic abilities (e.g. as a young Greek in the Perry Mason lawyer series , as a Spanish woman in Bonanza or as an Eskimo girl in a cage full of heroes ). From 1962, the first film roles followed, including Rote Linie 7000 directed by Howard Hawks and Südseeparadies at the side of Elvis Presley (with whom she sings the duet "Scratch My Back" in the film). In addition to a few other movies followed in the 1960s mainly television roles, including in the series Batman , Spaceship Enterprise , tennis rackets and cannons , Kobra you and Mannix take over . Over the years came guest appearances on over 50 different television series.

It was only in the 1970s that she was seen more often in the cinema: in the US western El Condor filmed in Europe , in the film The Traveling Executioner , which was highly appreciated by Quentin Tarantino, and in the avant-garde horror film Messiah of Evil , in which she has an American counterpart Horror icon Barbara Steele made up. Roles in the horror grotesque The Baby , followed by Clint Eastwood 's A Stranger Without a Name and in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather II . In Method Acting trained and equipped with different makeup, Hill is almost unrecognizable their roles in some.

Since the 1980s she has primarily worked as an acting teacher. After moving to England, she taught at the Lee Strasberg Studio in London for years .

Marianna Hill is the cousin of the US General Norman Schwarzkopf .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1962: Married Too Young
  • 1963: Black Zoo
  • 1964: Interns (The New Interns)
  • 1965: Red Line 7000 (Red Line 7000)
  • 1966: South Seas Paradise (Paradise Hawaiian Style)
  • 1966: Spaceship Enterprise (Star Trek: The Original Series, 1x10)
  • 1969: Medium Cool
  • 1970: El Condor
  • 1970: The Traveling Executioner
  • 1972: Highway Tramper (Thumb Tripping)
  • 1973: The Baby
  • 1973: Messiah of Evil (Messiah of Evil)
  • 1973: A Stranger Without a Name (High Plains Drifter)
  • 1974: The Godfather - Part II (The Godfather: Part II)
  • 1977: On the Trail of Death ( Relentless , TV movie)
  • 1980: Schizoid

Web links

Commons : Marianna Hill  - Collection of Images

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  1. ↑ documented by California Birth Records
  2. ↑ http://www.astro.com/astro-databank/Hill,_Marianna shows birth certificate
  3. ^ Marianna Hill: Marianna Hill. Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Marianna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hill, Mariana; Schwarzkopf, Marianna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actress of German-Spanish descent
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Barbara , California , United States