Ruth Killer

Ruth Killer (born April 18, 1920 in Graz ) is a German actress , voice actress and artist agent.

Life

Ruth Killer worked as a child actress in Johann Nestroy's posse Der Talisman as early as 1929, directed by Willem Holsboer at the Munich Volkstheater .

Later she also appeared in several film productions, such as in Kurt Hoffmann's The Lost Face alongside Gustav Fröhlich , the Ganghofer film adaptation of The Violin Maker from Mittenwald and in the US crime film Phantom Caravan with Don Ameche in the lead role. She also worked as a voice actress and lent her voice to Virginia Christine in Avengers of the Underworld , Ina Claire in Ninotschka and Moira Lister in Love with a Queen, among others .

Her professional focus, however, was another activity in the show industry: Ruth Killer founded and managed a successful artist agency as an agent , which, among other things , looked after the actor Raimund Harmstorf for 25 years and the actor Gunther Philipp for over 20 years . Karin Dor , Heide Keller , René Heinersdorff , Horst Naumann and Marika Rökk are also among her clients.

Ruth Killer was married to producer Albert Stenzel.

Filmography (selection)

• 1948: The Lost Face - Director: Kurt Hoffmann
• 1950: The violin maker from Mittenwald - Director: Rudolf Schündler
• 1951: The Eternal Game - Director: František Čáp
• 1951: Fanfares of Love - Director: Kurt Hoffmann
• 1954: Phantom Caravan - Director: Roy Rich

Radio plays

• 1957: The girl from the suburbs (based on Johann Nestroy ) - Director: Karl Bogner

Web links

• Ruth Killer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ruth Killer in Arne Kaul's synchronous database

Remarks

1. ^ Nestroy in Munich , Brigit Pargner, WE Yates (ed.), Deutsches Theatermuseum Munich, Lehner 2001, p. 163.
2. ↑ News: Politics, Money, Scene, People, Issues , VerlagsgesembH & Co KG 1998, p. 240.
3. ^ Obituary for Gunther Philipp, in: Die Welt , October 3, 2003.
4. ↑ Michael Petzel / Manfred Hobsch: The James Bond Files: The Billy Kocian Photo Collection of the classic James Bond films with Sean Connery and Roger Moore, with many previously unpublished photographs from the shooting of the James Bond films , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2002.
5. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Vol. 102, Deutscher Bühnenverein, Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Members (Ed.), FA Günther & Sohn 1994, p. 392.
6. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , Vol. 102, Deutscher Bühnenverein, Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Anerbeiger (Ed.), FA Günther & Sohn 1994, p. 372
7. ↑ Who's who in Germany 1990 , Vol. 1, p. 744.