Brigitte Horney
Birthday: Born in 1911-03-29 in Berlin, Germany
Deathday: 1988-07-27
Brigitte Horney was a German stage and film actress. Best known for her role as Empress Katherine the Great in the 1943 version of the UFA film version of "Baron Münchhausen", directed by Josef von Báky, with Hans Albers in the title role.
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Huckleberry Finn and His Friends
Character:
Huckleberry Finn and His Friends was a 1979 television series documenting the exploits of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer, based on the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American writer Mark Twain. The series was made up of 26 episodes and was a Canadian/German coproduction. Huckleberry Finn is played by Ian Tracey who is also the narrator. Tom Sawyer is played by Sammy Snyders. Directed by Jack B. Hively and Ken Jubenvill, this mini-series was broadcast...
Heidi
Character: La grand-mère
Young Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the mountains where she discovers the liberty and the beauty of Swiss landscapes. Later when Heidi is forced to become a companion to a young invalid girl in a big town, she discovers just how much she misses the mountains, her grandfather, and her friend Peter....
Der Kommissar
Character: Frau Dornberger
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein....
Der Kommissar
Character: Frau Kämmerer
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein....
Das Erbe der Guldenburgs
Character: Hertha Gräfin von Guldenburg
Das Erbe der Guldenburgs is a German television series....
Das Traumschiff
Character: Agathe
The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world....
Jakob und Adele
Character: Adele Schliemann
Jakob und Adele is a German television series....
Der Alte
Character: Mutter Finberg
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Derrick
Character: Frau Lechner
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Derrick
Character: Ina Hauff
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings....
Der Alte
Character: Mutter Prott
A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together....
Eichholz & Söhne
Character: Charlotte Daniel
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Bambi-Verleihung
Character: Self
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods ...
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Again the Ringer
Character: Lady Aston
Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit....
Darkness Fell on Gotenhafen
Character: Generalin von Reuss
The film depicts the first month of 1945 when the Russian Red Army broke into the eastern part of Germany and forced millions of civilians to flee in the coldest of winter. While the Russians invaded Ostpreussen hundred of thousands of civilians were evacuated by ships. Gotenhafen was the last open port and ships left the town almost by the minute, overloaded by refugees. One of the last ships to leave Gotenhafen was the 'Wilhelm Gustloff', a former 'Kraft durch Freude' pleasure cruiser designed...
Fra Diavolo
Character: Anita
A sympathetic bandit chief supports the cause of freedom in Naples against the Bourbon King Ferdinand....
Die Frau am Weg
Character: Christine
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The Trygon Factor
Character: Oberin
A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be....
Secret Lives
Character: Lena Schmidt
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country....
Ich suche einen Mann
Character: Helene Schmidt
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Farewell
Character: Hella, retailer
Hella lives in a boarding house and has various romantic adventures before settling down with vacuum cleaner salesman Winkler....
Der ewige Traum
Character: Maria
At the end of the 18th century, the wealthy French scholar Saussure comes to a small Alpine village and offers 1,000 pieces of gold to anyone who can lead him to the summit of Mont Blanc. The young farmer's son Jacques Balmat wants to take on the dangerous task, even though his father has told him from an early age about the mighty mountain spirits who guard a legendary treasure of gold on the mountain peak....
A Man Wants to Get to Germany
Character: Manuela Ortiguez, Fabrikantin
On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men....
Illusion
Character: Maria Roth
Melodrama about an actress falling in love with a man who wants her to give up her job....
Münchhausen
Character: Zarin Katharina II
Wanting a lavish production to mark the 25th anniversary of UFA, the German film studio, Joseph Goebbels, director of the Nazi propaganda machine, commissioned an adaptation of Baron von Münchhausen‘s “autobiographical” stories. Baron von Münchhausen (1720-97) was an eccentric figure in European history, whose tall tales about his adventures rival anything to be found in the legends of Paul Bunyan or classic figures like Odysseus. This film recounts some of the episodes from the Baron’s sensatio...
As Long as You're Near Me
Character: Mona Arendt
An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now faced with a psychological crisis....
Stadt Anatol
Character: Franziska Maniu
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The House of the Spaniard
Character: Margarita de Guzman
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…...
Heritage of Bjorndal
Character: Aunt Eleonore
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Der letzte Sommer
Character: Tatjana Tolemainen
A Nordic revolutionary's plans to murder the president go awry when he falls in love with the man's daughter....
The Cry of the Wild Geese
Character: Mrs. Sandbo
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Faded Melody
Character: Barbara Lorenz
After an emergency plane landing in the desert, the actress Barbara gets to know the industrialist Thomas. After they are rescued, the two live at Thomas' place in Berlin. Although she confesses her love for him, Thomas asks his brother Werner to look after Barbara, as he feels he is too consumed by work and doesn't wish to be bound to anyone. Only after a fight with his brother does Thomas realize how much in love with Barbara he really is; but by that time, she has left him. For years, Thom...
Melodie des Schicksals
Character: Carola
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Prisoners of Love
Character: Dr. Hildegard Thomas
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Enemies
Character: Anna
The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich....
Savoy-Hotel 217
Character: Nastasja Andrejevna Daschenko
A Moscow hotel waiter, found at the scene of a murder, tries to locate the real killer among a series of suspects....
Anna Favetti
Character: Anna Favetti
The daughter of a reclusive couple in the St. Moritz mountains tends to her brother, disabled from the Great War, though a handsome young architect who has just arrived waits for her attentions....
Am Ende der Welt
Character: Roberta Bell
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Geliebte Welt
Character: Karin Ranke
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Miracle of the White Stallions
Character: Gräfin Arco-Valley
In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's something of a horse fancier and can help...if he sees the stallions perform....
Ziel in den Wolken
Character: Margot Boje
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A Woman Like You
Character: Dr. Maria Pretorius
Maria Pretorius is the leader of a counseling office in a large factory. She is completely engrossed by her career and so gives the cold shoulder to her colleague Wallrodt, who wants to marry her. Only the young Manfred Thiele is successful in winning her sympathy through his perseverence. That, however, pisses off Lyda Lehmann, who has long had the hots for him....
The Glass Tower
Character: Dr. Bruning
Katja Fleming has given up her job as an actress and married the business man Robert Fleming. But the cold that surrounds her in her modern, luxurious high-rise makes her lonely. Then she meets the author John Lawrence, who wants to convince her to perform in his new play....
Aufruhr in Damaskus
Character: Vera Niemayer
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Rasputin, Demon of the Women
Character: Luscha
The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller....
Verspieltes Leben
Character: Ulyssa von Siebenbürgen
Germany, 1914: The bourgeois austerity of the small, northern German town in which Ulyssa lives conflicts sharply with her desire to flirt with and be ensnared by charming, young men. That she's married is irrelevant; it's a marriage which exists only on paper. Among all the men Ulyssa flirts with, there is one for which she has genuine affection: Stefen Marbach, an upright and sincere man, far superior to her other men. And, indeed, the two are honest with one another about their feelings,...
Du und ich
Character: Anna Uhlig
Melodrama about an entrepreneur and his family....
Bella Donna
Character: Jutta
This film of a glitzy showbiz world by director Peter Keglevic in his first feature-length effort recounts the saga of a married torch singer whose numerous lovers are meant to steady her nerves and a saxophone player who loves her but cannot get his own act together. Singing and cinematography are pluses....
Charlotte
Character: Grandma
In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though he...
No Exit
Character: Ines
TV-Movie of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre....
Love, Death and the Devil
Character: Ruby
In a harbor bazaar of the Pacific town of Kona, the young sailor Kiwe is offered a mysterious bottle, which supposedly gives her owner power and wealth and should fulfill all his wishes. The required return is however high. From now on, the soul of the new owner belongs to the devil....