Marthe Keller Biography (1945-)
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Marthe Keller Biography (1945-)

Born January 28, 1945, in Basel, Switzerland; father, a horse breeder; children: (with Philippe De Broca) Alexandre. Addresses: Office: c/o Sam Cohn, 40 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019.; Agent: c/o Guy Bonnet, Agents Associes, 201 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, 75008 Paris, France.; Contact: c/o Lemonstr 9, 81679 Munich, Germany.

Nationality

Swiss

Gender

Male

Occupation

Actress, director, model

Birth Details

January 28, 1945

Basel, Switzerland

Famous Works

CREDITS

Film Appearances

Nun, Wilder Reiter GmbH (also known as Wild Rider Ltd.), 1966

Brigit, Funeral in Berlin, Paramount, 1966

Amelie, The Devil by the Tail (also known as Le diable par la queue), Lopert, 1968

Marie Panneton, Give Her the Moon (also known as Les caprices de Marie), United Artists, 1970

Vicka, Old Maid (also known as La vieille fille and La tardona), Valoria, 1971

The Seven Minutes, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1971

Catherine, Un cave (also known as A Loser), 1971

Marlene, Elle court, elle court la banlieue (also known as La pendolare and The Suburbs Are Everywhere), United Artists, 1973

Marthe, La chute d'un corps (also known as Fall of a Body),Albina Productions, 1973

Autostoppeuse, La raison du plus fou (also known as The Right of the Maddest), 1973

Sarah, her mother, and her grandmother, And Now My Love (also known as Tutta una vita and Toute une vie), Avco-Embassy, 1974

Melba, Le guepier (also known as The Hornets' Nest), Columbia-Warner Distribution, 1975

Bianca, Down the Ancient Staircase (also known as Per le antiche scale, En descendant les marches d'antan, Down the Ancient Stairs, and Vertiges), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975

Angela, Only the Wind Knows the Answer (also known as Die Antwort Kennt Nur der Wind), Roxi Films, 1975

Elsa, Marathon Man, United Artists, 1976

Blind Love, 1976

Dahlia Iyad, Black Sunday, Paramount, 1977

Lillian Morelli, Bobby Deerfield (also known as Heaven Has No Favorites), Columbia, 1977

Title role and Antonia Sobryanski, Fedora, United Artists, 1979

Lisa Spangler, The Formula (also known as Die Formel), United Artists, 1980

Elisabeth Vaculik, The Amateur, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982

Cecile, Femmes de personne (also known as Nobody's Women),European Classics, 1983

Judy, Joan Luiu: But One Day in the Country I Come on Monday (alsoknown as Joan Lui: Ma un gioro ne paese arrivo io di lunedi), CDE, 1985

Bronka, Rouge baiser (also known as Red Kiss and Rote Kuesse), Circle Releasing, 1985

Tina, Dark Eyes (also known as Black Eyes, Oci Ciornie, andO cicionia un uomo clemente), Island, 1987

Georg Elser--Einer aus Deutschland (also known as Georg Elser and Seven Minutes), Mutoskop, 1989

Linda Farmer, Lapse of Memory (also known as Memoire traquee), Gerard Mital Productions, 1992

Catherine Mercier, Mon amie Max, Musidora Films, 1994

Signora Delgado, Pereira declares (also known as According to Pereira, Afirma Pereira, Pereira pretend, and Sostiene Pereira), Vertigo Films, 1995

Nuits blanches, 1996

Barbara, Elles (also known as Women, Elas, and Ostres desejos), Legal Video, 1997

Nora Winter, K, New Light Films, 1997

Madame Thorpe, The School of Flesh (also known as L'ecole de lachair), Arsenal, 1998

Christina, La derriere (also known as From Behind), 1999

Time of the Wolf, 2002

Television Appearances

Movies

Jean, Mein oder Dein, 1964

Aline, Tango, 1970

Esther, Die Frau des Reporters (documentary), 1986

Helma Schleyer, La ruelle au clair de lune, 1987

Eva Grundberg, Un coeur a prendre, 1991

Turbulences (also known as Son et lumiere), 1992

Marikka, Im Kreis der Iris, 1992

Title role, Jeanne d'Arc au bucher, 1993

Beatrice Belmont, Toedliches Geld (also known as Family of Lies), 1995

Series

Natacha, Arsene Lupin, 1971

Koba Lye-Lye, La demoiselle d'Avignon, 1972

Episodic

Diane, "Louis-Charles, mon amour," Sueurs froides, 1988

Miniseries

Duchess Sanseverina, The Charterhouse of Parma (also known asLaCertosa di Parma and Die Kartause von Parma), PBS, 1982

Mathilde de Wesendonck, Wagner, London Cultural Trust Productions,1983

Tess Shirer, The Nightmare Years, TNT, 1989

Catherine's mother, Young Catherine, TNT, 1991

Antoinette, Belle epoque, 1995

Also appeared as Julie Kaufman, Unna Vittoria (A Victory), RAI-1 (Italy).

Television Work

Specials

Opera director, Dialogues des Carmelites, 1999

Stage Appearances

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Paris, 1969

Masha, The Three Sisters, Paris, 1979

The Exiles, 1983

Title role, Joan of Arc at the Stake (dramatic oratorio), CarnegieHall, New York City, 1984

Jedermann, Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria, 1984

Don Carlos, 1986

(Broadway debut) Judgment at Nuremberg, 2001

Also performed as Juliet, Romeo and Juliet; appeared in A Monthin the Country, Paris; appeared in Betrayal, La ronde, Hamlet, T. H. Lawrence, and Emballage perdu. Has performedin more than fifty plays.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

Entertainment Weekly, December 9, 1994, p. 88

Variety, November 24, 1997, p. 67