Sybille Schmitz
Born: 1909-12-02 in Düren, Germany
Died: 1955-04-13
Known For: Acting
Biography
Sybille Maria Christina Schmitz (2 December 1909 – 13 April 1955) was a German actress. Schmitz attended an acting school in Cologne and got her first engagement at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1927. Only one year later, she made her film debut with Freie Fahrt (1928), which attracted her first attention from critics. Her other early movies include Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), Dreyer's Vampyr (1932), and eventually F.P.1 (1932), where she played her first leading role. Schmitz established herself as a prominent actress in German cinema with the films which followed; including Der Herr der Welt (1934), Abschiedswalzer (1934), Ein idealer Gatte (1935), and Fährmann Maria (1936). She also had roles in Die Umwege des schönen Karl (1937), Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1938), Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit (1939), Trenck, der Pandur (1940) and Titanic (1943)
Filmography
2000
- Dance with Death: The Ufa Star Sybille Schmitz as Self (archive footage)
1954
- The House on the Coast as Anna
1952
- Illusion in Moll as Maria Alsbacher
1950
- Crown Jewels as Eva Skeravenen
- Sensation im Savoy as Vera Gordon
- Die Lüge as Susanne Gruber
1949
- The Last Night as Renée Meurier
1947
- Between Yesterday and Tomorrow as Nelly Dreifuss
1944
- Life Calls as Hella Warkentin
- The Impostor as Thea Varèn
1943
- Titanic as Sigrid Olinsky
1942
- Vom Schicksal verweht as Dr. Virginia Larsen
1941
- Wetterleuchten um Barbara as Barbara Stammer
- Clarissa as Clarissa von Reckwitz
1940
- Trenck, der Pandur as Prinzessin Deinartstein
1939
- Hotel Sacher as Nadja Woroneff
- Die fremde Frau
- Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit as Eva
1938
- Die Umwege des schönen Karl as Lu Donon - Tochter
- The Stars Shine as Gast
- Tanz auf dem Vulkan as Gräfin Héloise Cambouilly
1937
- Die Kronzeugin as Jelena Rakowska
- Signal in der Nacht as Brigitte von Schachen
1936
- Ferryman Maria as Maria
- Die Leuchter des Kaisers as Anna Demidow
- The Unknown as Madeleine
1935
- Top Sergeant Schwenke as Erna Zuwade, Stütze bei Wenkstern
- If It Were Not for Music as Ilonka Badacz
- I Was Jack Mortimer as Winifred Montemayor
- Punks Arrives from America as Britta Geistenberg
- An Ideal Husband as Gloria Cheveley
- Stradivari as Maria Belloni
1934
- Farewell Waltz as George Sand
- Rivalen der Luft as Sportfliegerin Lisa Holm
- Music in the Blood as Carola, seine Nichte
- Master of the World as Vilma, seine Frau
1932
- Vampyr as Léone
- F.P.1 Doesn't Answer as Claire Lennartz
1929
- Diary of a Lost Girl as Elisabeth