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Lilia Skala

Highest Rated: 100% Heartland (1979)

Lowest Rated: 37% Flashdance (1983)

Birthday: Nov 28, 1896

Birthplace: Vienna, Austria-Hungary

Galvanizing, stern-featured Viennese character actress with extensive Broadway experience ("The Diary of Anne Frank," "Medea and Jason") and regular if limited film and TV credits. A decade after recreating her Broadway role in the film version of the Irving Berlin musical "Call Me Madam" (1953) Skala first gained attention in features with her splendid, Oscar-nominated performance as the disciplined, argumentative but good-hearted Mother Superior who coaxes an itinerant handyman (Sidney Poitier) into building a church in the delightful sleeper "Lilies of the Field" (1963).

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Highest rated movies

100% 86% Heartland
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97% 79% House of Games
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92% 86% Lilies of the Field
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89% 74% Testament
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63% 76% Ship of Fools
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55% 62% Charly
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75% Deadly Hero
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The Sunshine Patriot
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Probe
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Lilia Skala CHARLY, Lilia Skala, Cliff Robertson, 1968 CHARLY, Leon Janney, Lilia Skala, 1968 LILIES OF THE FIELD, Lilia Skala, Sidney Poitier, 1963 CHARLY, Lilia Skala, Claire Bloom, Leon Janney, 1968 HEARTLAND, Lilia Skala, Conchata Ferrell, Rip Torn, Megan Folsom, Barry Primus, 1979, Levitt-Pickman LILIES OF THE FIELD, Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, 1963 FLASHDANCE, Lilia Skala, Jennifer Beals, 1983, (c) Paramount LILIES OF THE FIELD, Lilia Skala, Isa Crino, Pamela Branch, Francesca Jarvis, Lisa Mann, Sidney Poitier, 1963 MEN OF RESPECT, from left: John Turturro, Lilia Skala, 1990, © Columbia View more photos

Filmography

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97% 79% House of Games Dr. Littauer (Character) $416.5K 1987
37% 61% Flashdance Hanna Long (Character) - 1983
89% 74% Testament Fania Morse (Character) - 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet The End of August Mlle. Reisz (Character) - 1982
100% 86% Heartland Mrs. Landauer (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet 25% Roseland Rosa (The Peabody) (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 75% Deadly Hero Mrs. Broderick (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet 100% Eleanor and Franklin Mlle. Souvestre (Character) - 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet Probe Frieda Ullman (Character) - 1972
55% 62% Charly Dr. Anna Straus (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Sunshine Patriot Dr. Novack (Character) - 1968
63% 76% Ship of Fools Frau Hutten (Character) - 1965
92% 86% Lilies of the Field Mother Maria (Character) - 1963

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Trapper John, M.D. Unknown (Guest Star) 1983
No Score Yet No Score Yet McCloud Eugenia Rudell (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet Green Acres Unknown (Guest Star) 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Name of the Game Unknown (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Spy Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet 12 O'Clock High Unknown (Guest Star) 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alfred Hitchcock Hour Unknown (Character) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Climax! Unknown (Character) 1954 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Alcoa Hour Mrs. Van Vlick (Character) 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tales of Tomorrow Unknown (Character) 1953