Ingeborg Schöner

Abandoning her philology studies, Ingeborg Schöner started acting on stage. But she began making movies in the mid-1950s and developed parallel careers, as she was often cast as girls-next-door in her German outings and slightly feistier heroines in the co-productions she made across Europe. In Italy, she was a shoreleave pick-up in "A Sailor's Promises," a mischievous kidnapper in "Adorable and a Liar" and the other woman in Dino Risi's romcom "Venezia, la luna e tu." Meanwhile, back home, she played a villager opposing a dam project in the Heimatfilm "Waldrausch," a newlywed in the comedy of marital manners "Liebe verboten - Heiraten erlaubt" and the ideal bride for a widowed architect in "When the Grapevines Bloom on the Danube." She also headlined the fashion industry musical "Ich zähle täglich meine Sorgen" and teamed with pop stars Freddy Quinn and Peter Alexander in "Weit ist der Weg" and "Season in Salzburg," respectively. Yet she invariably seemed more exotic opposite Hollywood stars, notably as the king's niece inticing minstrel John Derek in "Pirate of the Half Moon" and the colonel's daughter distracting Gordon Scott in "Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West." Indeed, alongside Guy Madison in "The Adventurer of Tortuga" and "Kidnapped to Mystery Island," she essayed a fiery señorita and the supposed reincarnation of the goddess Kali. Married to director Georg Marischka, she has primarily been a TV star since the 1970s, most enduringly playing police commissioner Anna Herbst in "SOKO 5113."