Elga Andersen
Cast

Elga Andersen

1935 – 1994
Active years (films on this site)
1958–1960
Genres
CrimeDramaFilm-NoirAdventure
Schools and movements
Contemporary European Art CinemaFrench New WaveFrench Poetic Realism and Classical Cinema

Directors worked with

Louis Malle1 filmMarcel Camus1 film

Biography

Elga Andersen was a German actress and singer. She starred in more than one dozen French films in the 1950s and 1960s and also debuted as a recording artist in the 1950s. She performed the songs "Treu sein" and "Sündenlied" in the 1961 film The Guns of Navarone, and co-starred in the 1971 Steve McQueen film Le Mans. Together with her second husband, Peter Gimbel, she embarked on a 1981 diving expedition of the sunken SS Andrea Doria.

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2 films on this site

  1. Elevator to the Gallows 1958 · Louis Malle · IMDb 7.9 · Cast
  2. Os Bandeirantes 1960 · Marcel Camus · IMDb 6.8 · Cast