Sybille Schmitz

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Sybille Maria Christina Schmitz (2 December 1909 – 13 April 1955) was a German actress. Schmitz attended an acting school in Cologne and got her first engagement at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1927. Only one year later, she made her film debut with Freie Fahrt (1928), which attracted her first attention from critics. Her other early movies include Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), Dreyer's Vampyr (1932), and eventually F.P.1 (1932), where she played her first leading role. Schmitz established herself as a prominent actress in German cinema with the films which followed; including Der Herr der Welt (1934), Abschiedswalzer (1934), Ein idealer Gatte (1935), and Fährmann Maria (1936). She also had roles in Die Umwege des schönen Karl (1937), Tanz auf dem Vulkan (1938), Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit (1939), Trenck, der Pandur (1940) and Titanic (1943)

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2000
Dance with Death: The Ufa Star Sybille Schmitz
Movie Self (archive footage)
1954
The House on the Coast
Movie Anna
1952
Illusion in Moll
Movie Maria Alsbacher
1950
Crown Jewels
Movie Eva Skeravenen
1950
Sensation im Savoy
Movie Vera Gordon
1950
Die Lüge
Movie Susanne Gruber
1949
The Last Night
Movie Renée Meurier
1947
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
Movie Nelly Dreifuss
1944
Life Calls
Movie Hella Warkentin
1944
The Impostor
Movie Thea Varèn
1943
Titanic
Movie Sigrid Olinsky
1942
Vom Schicksal verweht
Movie Dr. Virginia Larsen
1941
Wetterleuchten um Barbara
Movie Barbara Stammer
1941
Clarissa
Movie Clarissa von Reckwitz
1940
Trenck, der Pandur
Movie Prinzessin Deinartstein
1939
Die fremde Frau
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