Romy Schneider

Actor

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Also Known As

Rosemarie Albach-Retty

Birth Place

Austria

Born

September 23, 1938

Died

May 29, 1982

Biography

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Sensual, intelligent leading lady who first earned international attention with her role in the Visconti-directed episode of "Boccaccio '70" (1962). Schneider has become something of a fixture in Claude Sautet's studies of French middle-class life; she has also appeared in films by Orson Welles ("The Trial" 1963), Clive Donner ("What's New, Pussycat?" 1965), Joseph Losey ("The Assassinat...

Filmography

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Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno (2009)

La Passante (1983)

Garde a Vue (1981)

Fantasma d'Amore (1981)

La Banquiere (1980)

Death Watch (1980)

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Good Neighbor Sam (1964) -- (Movie Clip) It Can't Be Helped

Good Neighbor Sam (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Nice To See You

Biography

Sensual, intelligent leading lady who first earned international attention with her role in the Visconti-directed episode of "Boccaccio '70" (1962). Schneider has become something of a fixture in Claude Sautet's studies of French middle-class life; she has also appeared in films by Orson Welles ("The Trial" 1963), Clive Donner ("What's New, Pussycat?" 1965), Joseph Losey ("The Assassination of Trotsky" 1972) and Bertrand Tavernier (the underrated "Death Watch" 1979). Daughter of actors Wolf Albach-Retty and Magda Schneider, both born in 1908.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Henri-George Clouzot's Inferno (2009)

La Passante (1983)

Garde a Vue (1981)

Fantasma d'Amore (1981)

La Banquiere (1980)

Death Watch (1980)

Womanlight (1979)

Bloodline (1979)

Une Histoire simple (1978)

Les Innocents aux mains Sales (1978)

That Most Important Thing: Love (1977)

Group Portrait With A Lady (1977)

Une femme a sa fenetre (1976)

A Woman At Her Window (1976)

The Old Gun (1975)

Le Vieux Fusil (1975)

Le Mouton Enrage (1974)

Un Amour de pluie (1974)

Le Trio Infernal (1974)

Le Train (1973)

Empress Elisabetta

The Assassination Of Trotsky (1972)

Cesar and Rosalie (1972)

Cesar et Rosalie (1972)

La Califfa (1971)

The Swimming Pool (1970)

My Lover, My Son (1970)

Francesca Anderson

The Things of Life (1970)

Triple Cross (1967)

Angel on Earth (1966)

Air stewardess/guardian angel

The Girl and the Legend (1966)

10:30 P.M. Summer (1966)

What's New Pussycat? (1965)

Maedchen in Uniform (1965)

Manuela von Mainhardis

Good Neighbor Sam (1964)

The Trial (1963)

Magnificent Sinner (1963)

The Victors (1963)

The Cardinal (1963)

Forever My Love (1962)

Princess Elisabeth [Sissi]

Boccaccio '70 (1962)

Le combat dans l'ile (1962)

Ein Engel auf Erden (1959)

Air Stewardess; Guardian Angel

Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957)

Maedchen in Uniform (1957)

Sissi: The Young Empress (1956)

The Story of Vickie (1954)

Cast (Special)

Bob Hope Special: Bob Hope's Women I Love - Beautiful but Funny (1982)

Life Events

1953

Screen debut in "Wenn der weisse flieder wieder bluht"

1963

First US films, "The Cardinals" and "The Victors"

1983

Last film, "La passante"

Videos

Good Neighbor Sam (1964) -- (Movie Clip) It Can't Be Helped Posing as her husband for her pursuing litigious cousins, Jack Lemmon as Bay Area ad-man Sam and Romy Schneider, as his wife’s visiting European friend Janet, have to continue the act when they find his boss (Edward Andrews) awaiting with the big client (Edward G. Robinson), in Good Neighbor Sam, 1964.

Good Neighbor Sam (1964) -- (Movie Clip) Nice To See You Bounding home after landing a new account, ad-man Sam (Jack Lemmon) discovers his wife's bubbly European friend Janet (Romy Schneider) in the shower, smoothing things out with Min (Dorothy Provine) straight away, in Good Neighbor Sam, 1964.

Sissi (1955) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Not A Nihilist! Pursued by the neurotic security man (Josef Meinrad), Elisabeth (Romy Schneider, title character) has escaped her minders and is not recognized by the young Emperor Franz Joseph (Karl Boehm), as the sister of his fianceè, shooting on location at Bad Ischl, Austria, in Sissi, 1955.

Sissi (1955) -- (Movie Clip) St. Michaels, Vienna Shot on location at St. Michael’s church in Vienna, though the event took place at the nearby Augustinian church, the climax of the first film in the series, Romy Schneider the title character, Duchess Elisabeth of Bavaria, marries Emperor Franz Joseph (Karl Boehm), with Handel’s Messiah, in Sissi, 1955.

Sissi (1955) -- (Movie Clip) To The Future Empress Introducing the title character, in the first film in the international hit series, father Duke Max (Gustav Knuth), friend Johann (Franz Boheim) and Duchess Ludovika (Magda Schneider, the star’s mother) discuss the next Austrian empress, though Romy Schneider, on location in the Tyrolean Alps, is not yet a candidate, in Sissi, 1955.

Death Watch (1980) -- (Movie Clip) It Seems You're Dying Harry Dean Stanton as producer of the reality TV show named in the title, which covers people who are dying, after medicine has almost eliminated premature death, with Harvey Keitel as his quasi-reporter, observing Romy Schneider as potential star Katherine, Russell Enoch her doctor, in Bertrand Tavernier’s Death Watch, 1980.

Death Watch (1980) -- (Movie Clip) You're About To Become A Celebrity Katherine (Romy Schneider) in near-future Glasgow, where science has all-but eliminated death, has just learned she’s terminally ill, and finds she’s being promoted as the next star of the blockbuster reality TV show about dying people, meeting Derek Royle as a newspaper reporter, in Bertrand Tavernier’s Death Watch, 1980.

Triple Cross (1967) -- (Movie Clip) Your Latent Possibilities Yul Brynner is von Grunen, Nazi spy chief on the occupied English Isle of Jersey, Romy Schneider “The Countess,” an operative in his command, and Christopher Plummer the British thief and turncoat Chapman, about to be subjected to her loyalty test, in the fact-based Triple Cross, 1967.

What's New, Pussycat? (1965) -- (Movie Clip) You Are Serious Adulterer! Tom Jones with the hit title tune by Burt Bacharach and Hal David over the gaudy credits, and an opening scene that sounds like a surviving piece of Woody Allen’s original screenplay, Peter Sellers as shrink Fassbender, at war with his burly wife (Eddra Gale), opening What’s New, Pussycat?, 1965.

What's New, Pussycat? (1965) -- (Movie Clip) I Saw Your Lips Standing There Screenwriter Woody Allen as Parisian Victor, not quite able to take advantage of Carole (Romy Schneider), the discouraged fianceè of his commitment-averse fashion editor pal Michael (Peter O’Toole), who meantime attempts a last fling with neurotic stripper Liz (Paula Prentiss), in What’s New, Pussycat?, 1965.

Le Combat Dans L'Ile (1962) -- (Movie Clip) A Weapon Of War Arising in Paris after an intense, boozy night out, singer Anne (Romy Schneider), with the maid, discovers a bazooka in the closet, which her husband Clement (Jean-Louis Trintignant), returning from a meeting with his industrialist father, feels little need to explain, in Le Combat Dans L'Ile , 1962.

Le Combat Dans L'Ile (1962) -- (Movie Clip) You Must Bring The Device No context as this is the opening shot, Jean-Louis Tringignant and Romy Schneider as a young Paris couple, sharing a cab after dinner with Pierre Asso, whose relationship is not explained, though dialogue intrigues, in director Alan Cavalier's Les Combat Dans L'Ile, 1962.

Trial, The (1963) - (Original Trailer) A man in a nameless county stands trial for an unnamed crime in Orson Welles' film version of the Franz Kafka novel, The Trial (1963).

Family

Wolf Albach-Retty

Father

Actor. Born Vienna, 1908.

Magda Schneider

Mother

Actor. Died in her sleep on July 30, 1996.

Wolfdieter Albach-Retty

Brother

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