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Sybille Schmitz

Acting Born Dec 2, 1909 Düren, Germany 24 credits

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)

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Known for

Film

Vampyr

as Léone

Full filmography

  • Vampyr (1932) as Léone
  • Titanic (1943) as Sigrid Olinsky
  • Accident (1928)
  • Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) as Elisabeth
  • F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932) as Claire Lennartz
  • Master of the World (1934) as Vilma, seine Frau
  • Ferryman Maria (1936) as Maria
  • Trenck, der Pandur (1940) as Prinzessin Deinartstein
  • Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (1947) as Nelly Dreifuss
  • Top Sergeant Schwenke (1935) as Erna Zuwade, Stütze bei Wenkstern
  • Farewell Waltz (1934) as George Sand
  • The Stars Shine (1938) as Gast
  • The Unknown (1936) as Madeleine
  • Stradivari (1935) as Maria Belloni
  • The House on the Coast (1954) as Anna
  • The Impostor (1944) as Thea Varèn
  • Die Kronzeugin (1937) as Jelena Rakowska
  • Die Umwege des schönen Karl (1938) as Lu Donon - Tochter
  • Life Calls (1944) as Hella Warkentin
  • Illusion in Moll (1952) as Maria Alsbacher
  • Die Leuchter des Kaisers (1936) as Anna Demidow
  • Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit (1939) as Eva
  • Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1938) as Gräfin Héloise Cambouilly
  • The Last Night (1949) as Renée Meurier