Annette Carell
Annette Carell | |
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| File:Annette Carell 1953 retouched.png Carell in Martin Luther (1953) | |
| Born | Anneliese Erlanger 7 January 1926 Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany |
| Died | 20 October 1967 (aged 41) London, England |
| Other names | Annette Karen Carell |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse | Gerald Savory (m. 1953) |
Annette Karen Carell (variously Carrell; born Anneliese Erlanger; 7 January 1926 – 20 October 1967)[1][2][3][Note 1] was a German-born American actress of stage, screen, and television who lived in the United States and Britain at various stages of her career. She appeared in American, British, and German films, plays, and television series, including Beyond the Curtain, No Hiding Place, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Out of the Unknown, Our Mother's House, and Z-Cars.[5][6][7]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Early life
[edit | edit source]Carell was born Anneliese Erlanger in Nuremberg, Bavaria, the daughter of Stephen (Stefan) Erlanger and Lilly Kromwell.[8][9][10] Her family was Jewish,[7][11][12] and left Nazi Germany for England in the late 1930s.[8][13][14] In 1942 the family emigrated from England to the United States,[12] where Carell became a naturalized American citizen on 12 February 1944 in Boston, Massachusetts.[15][1] She attended the Leland Powers School in Boston.[8]
Career
[edit | edit source]Under the name Annette Erlanger, her first notable acting role was a supporting part in the Washington National Theatre production of Robert E. Sherwood's play The Rugged Path (1945), starring Spencer Tracy.[16] While acting in Germany in the early 1950s, she adopted the stage name Carell.[17] Her most prominent film role was probably in the German-shot Martin Luther (1953) as Luther's wife, Katherine von Bora.[6] She also had supporting roles in Darling (1965),[18] Our Mother's House (1967),[19] and The Vulture (1967).[20]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]Carell married expatriate British playwright Gerald Savory in New Jersey on 1 September 1953.[8] They returned to England from the U.S. in 1956;[21] the couple had no children.
Carell died of a barbiturate overdose at her home in London on 20 October 1967, in what was ruled a suicide.[21][3]
Filmography
[edit | edit source]Films
[edit | edit source]| Year | Production | Role | Notes |
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| 1952 | The Sergeant's Daughter (Der Grosse Zapfenstreich) | Bettina von Laufen | |
| 1953 | Martin Luther | Katherine von Bora[15] | |
| 1960 | Beyond the Curtain | Governor | |
| 1960 | The Tell-Tale Heart | Betty's Landlady | |
| 1961 | Wings of Death | Marie | Short film |
| 1961 | Return of a Stranger | Matron | |
| 1961 | Two Wives at One Wedding | Maria | |
| 1965 | Darling | Billie Castiglione | |
| 1967 | The Vulture | Ellen West | |
| 1967 | Our Mother's House | Mother |
Television
[edit | edit source]| Year | Production | Role | Notes |
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| 1956 | Armchair Theatre | Madame Klost | Episode: "The Outsider" |
| 1957 | The Queen and the Rebels | Elizabetta | TV film |
| 1957 | BBC Sunday Night Theatre | Princess Caroline of Brunswick | Episode: "The Lass of Richmond Hill" |
| 1957 | ITV Television Playhouse | Maria Kovali | Episode: "Who Killed Kovali?" |
| 1957 | Hour of Mystery | Helen Webster | Episode: "Sound Alibi" |
| 1958 | Television World Theatre | Sick Girl | Episode: "The Captain of Koepenick" |
| 1958 | Saturday Playhouse | Anna Kirsten | Episode: "So Many Children" |
| 1959 | Love and Mr Lewisham | Miss Alice Heydinger | 5 episodes |
| 1959 | Bleak House | Mademoiselle Hortense | 5 episodes |
| 1960 | International Detective | Rose Di Marco | Episode: "The Raffael Case" |
| 1960 | No Hiding Place | Claudine van Buren | Episode: "Bed of Roses" |
| 1960 | Maigret | Sylvie | Episode: "Liberty Bar" |
| 1961 | One Step Beyond | Frieda Hessler | Episode: "The Prisoner" |
| 1961 | ITV Play of the Week | Margery Bellows | Episode: "The Burden of Proof" |
| 1961 | Emergency Ward 10 | Elaine Carr | 4 episodes |
| 1962 | Dixon of Dock Green | Ada Jones | Episode: "A Special Kind of Jones" |
| 1962 | The Six Proud Walkers | Miss. Manson | 2 episodes |
| 1962 | Outbreak of Murder | Sugar Bayliss | 2 episodes |
| 1962 | Compact | Madame Roussin | 4 episodes |
| 1963 | The Human Jungle | Laurie Winters | Episode: "The Flip Side Man" |
| 1963 | The Scales of Justice | Mrs. Joyce Warren | Episode: "The Invisible Asset" |
| 1963–1965 | Crane |
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| 1964 | Sergeant Cork | Clara Lancing | Episode: "The Case of the Six Suspects" |
| 1965 | The Saint | Katerina | Episode: "The Persistent Parasites" |
| 1965 | Buddenbrooks | Gerda | TV mini-series |
| 1965 | BBC Play of the Month | Hansi Brand | Episode: "The Joel Brand Story" |
| 1965 | The Man Who Never Was | Kaeth Van Zeeland | Episode: "Search for a Bent Twig" |
| 1966 | Out of the Unknown | Emma Bowles | Episode: "The Fastest Draw" |
| 1967 | Adam Adamant Lives! | Monique | Episode: "Conspiracy of Death" |
| 1967 | The Avengers | Dr. Voss | Episode: "The Fear Merchants" |
| 1967 | The Baron | Eleanor Saumarez | Episode: "Long Ago and Far Away" |
| 1967 | Z-Cars | Nina Papadopoulos | Double episode: "Who Said Anything About the Law?" |
| 1967 | Theatre 625 | Anna | Episode: "Firebrand" |
| 1967 | The Prisoner | 'B' | Episode: "A. B. and C." |
| 1967 | Man in a Suitcase | Gilchrist | Episode: "The Girl Who Never Was" |
| 1967 | The Informer | Moira Hepworth | Episode: "Your Money or Your Life" |
Notes
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Annette Carell at IMDb
- Annette Carell at the Internet Broadway DatabaseLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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- 1926 births
- 1967 suicides
- 1967 deaths
- Actors from Nuremberg
- American film actresses
- American television actresses
- German film actresses
- German television actresses
- Drug-related suicides in England
- Barbiturates-related deaths
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- 20th-century American actresses
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
- Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
- 20th-century German women
- Actresses from Bavaria