About
Elke Sommer, born Elke von Schletz, is a German actress, entertainer and artist, who has starred in many Hollywood films. She was spotted by film director Vittorio De Sica while on holiday in Italy, and began appearing in films there in 1958. Also that year, she changed her surname from Schletz to Sommer, which was easier to pronounce for a non-German audience. She quickly became a noted sex symbol and moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s. She also became one of the most popular pin-up girls of the time, and posed for several pictorials in Playboy magazine, including the September 1964 and December 1967 issues. Sommer became one of the top film actresses of the 1960s. She made just shy of 100 film and television appearances between 1959 and 2005, including A Shot in the Dark with Peter Sellers, The Art of Love with James Garner and Dick Van Dyke, The Oscar with Stephen Boyd, Boy...
Known for
The Love BoatSeries • 1977
St. ElsewhereSeries • 1982
The Six Million Dollar ManSeries • 1974
A Shot in the DarkMovie • 1964
And Then There Were NoneMovie • 1974
Frontier HellcatMovie • 1964
Lisa and the DevilMovie • 1974
The Wrecking CrewMovie • 1968
The Prisoner of ZendaMovie • 1979
The PrizeMovie • 1963
That's Carry On!Movie • 1977
Deadlier Than the MaleMovie • 1967
Baron BloodMovie • 1972
They Came to Rob Las VegasMovie • 1968
The Money TrapMovie • 1965
The VictorsMovie • 1963
ZeppelinMovie • 1971
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!Movie • 1966
The DollsMovie • 1965
Carry On BehindMovie • 1975
The House of ExorcismMovie • 1975
FlashbackMovie • 2000
Ship of the DeadMovie • 1959