Maria Perschy
Born: 1938-09-23 in Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria
Died: 2004-12-03
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Maria Perschy (September 23, 1938 – December 3, 2004) was an Austrian actress. Perschy was born in Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria and moved to Vienna at the age of 17 to study acting. After completing her education, she moved to Germany for more training, leading to a movie career. Her first major success came with Nasser Asphalt where she played together with Horst Buchholz. Her acting career would eventually take her — by way of France, Italy, and Great Britain — to Hollywood. Perschy played in a number of American films, her most notable roles being in the 1962 biopic Freud and the 1964 Rock Hudson comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?. Perschy's career in America eventually declined and by the late 1970s her only US appearances were brief roles in TV shows such as Hawaii Five-O and General Hospital. While shooting in Spain in 1971, Perschy suffered a burn injury from an accident that required several operations before she could resume her career. Perschy returned to her native Austria in 1985 and continued to perform in a series of plays and TV series. On 3 December 2004, Austrian state broadcaster ORF reported that Maria Perschy had died of cancer in Vienna. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Perschy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
1998
- Rosamunde Pilcher: Melodie der Herzen as Mrs. Manning
- Mörderisches Erbe - Tausch mit einer Toten as Lucy
1997
- Die Nacht der Nächte as Eva
1994
- Zwei Brüder as Vermieterin
1993
- Auf eigene Gefahr as Frau von Seberling
- Die drei Dorfheiligen
1990
- Harry and Harriet as Ruth Olsen
1988
- Eurocops as Erika Ruhland
- Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community as Mrs. Strauß
1983
- Vultures as Pamela Windsor
1977
- The Standard as Mordax
1976
- The People Who Own the Dark as Lily
- El límite del amor as Madre Superiora
- Fox Hunt as Mercedes
1975
- Exorcismo as Patricia Gibson
- The Adolescents as Miss Stella Larsen
- De profesión: polígamo as Luisa
- Kilma, Queen of the Jungle as Isabel
1974
- Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll as Ivette
- The Ghost Galleon as Lillian Perry
- Say it with Flowers as Klaus's wife
- Los fríos senderos del crimen as Jane
- Sergeant Berry as Eileen
- The Night of Fury as Jill
- Le dessous du ciel as Éliane
1973
- Hunchback of the Morgue as Dr. Maria Meyer
- The Specter of Terror as María Preston
1971
- Dalli Dalli as Self - Candidate
- Murders in the Rue Morgue as Genevre
1970
- The Last Day of the War as Elena Truppe
1969
- The Castle of Fu Manchu as Marie
- Paul Temple as Ilse Haffner
- Dr. med. Fabian - Lachen ist die beste Medizin as Dr. Inge Vollmer
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Dr. Sonya Hansen
1967
- A Witch Without a Broom as Mariana
- The Vengeance of Pancho Villa as Vera Stevens - the widow
- The Desperate Ones as Marusia
- Spy Today, Die Tomorrow as Lu Forrester
- Five Golden Dragons as Margret
- Sette donne per una strage
1966
- The Tall Women as Ursula
- Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill as Joan Smith
1965
- African Gold as Helena Hanson
- The Bandits of the Rio Grande as Helen
1964
- 633 Squadron as Hilde Bergman
- Man's Favorite Sport? as Isolde 'Easy' Mueller
- Operation Hong Kong as Claudia Laudon
- Secret of the Sphinx as Hélène Blomberg
- No Survivors, Please as Ginny Desmond, Sekretärin
- Extraconiugale as Eva (segment "La moglie svedese")
1963
- The Mad Executioners as Ann Barry
- Die fünfte Kolonne as Gisela Wilke
1962
- Freud: The Secret Passion as Magda (uncredited)
- The Password Is Courage as Irena
- Melody of Hate as Claudia / Martina
- Wenn beide schuldig werden as Josi
1961
- Ordered to Love as Doris Korff
1960
- Die verkaufte Braut as Marie
- Love in Rome as Eleonora Curtatoni
- Der Held meiner Träume as Franziska Kleinschmidt
- I piaceri del sabato notte as Claudia
1959
- The Moralist as Monique
- Natürlich die Autofahrer as Karin Dobermann
- Die Liebe des Jahres as Prinzessin Angela
1958
- Wet Asphalt as Bettina
- Fanny as Fanny
- Der schwarze Blitz as Gretl Mittermayr
- Lady Country Doctor as Afra
1957
- Zum blauen Bock as Self
1956
- Roter Mohn
- Nichts als Ärger mit der Liebe as Hannerl