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Ellen Schwiers

Actress

Born - 11 June 1930, Stettin, Germany (now Poland)
Died - 26 April 2019

Full-lipped, very dark-haired, serious-looking German/Polish actress; she entered films as a teenager and was rarely out of work for the next 30 years: Secret Rendezvous (1949), Bandits of the Autobahn (1955), Is Anna Anderson Anastasia? (1956), No Time to Kill (1959), The Cow and I (1959), Everyman (1961), The Brain (1962), the Invisible Terror (1963), Bandits of the Rio Grande (1965), Rocco/Ballad of a Gunman (1967), 1900 (1976), Fedora (1978), Woman Doctors (1983), Sherlock Holmes and the Seven Dwarfs (1992), Scarmour (1997), Play It Loud! (2003) and 3096 Days, her last. She married actor Peter Jacob, but he died at 62. The actress Katerina Jacob is her daughter and the actress Josephine Jacob her granddaughter.