Lotte Lenya
Born: 1898-10-17 in Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary
Died: 1981-11-27
Known For: Acting
Biography
Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). She also played the murderous and sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love (1963). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lotte Lenya, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2026
- One Hat is One Hat ... (Songs)
2021
- Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh? as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Popular Voices at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
1994
1989
- The Exiles as Self
1980
- No. 18: Mahagonny as Self (voice)
1977
- Semi-Tough as Carla Pelf
1969
- The Appointment as Emma Valadier
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1966
- NET Playhouse
- Ten Blocks on the Camino Real as The Gypsy
1965
- The Incredible World of James Bond as Self (archive footage)
- Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War as Mutter Courage
1963
- From Russia with Love as Rosa Klebb
1962
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone as Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
- Treffpunkt New York as Self
- Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill as Self
1960
- George Grosz' Interregnum as Narrator
1931
- The 3 Penny Opera as Jenny