Name
Marlene Schmidt
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1934-09-07 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
Breslau, Germany
Biography
Fled East Germany in 1960 to live in Stuttgart and work as an electronics engineer. Soon after, she entered a beauty contest on a whim and ended up winning the title of Miss Germany. That led to being crowned Miss Universe in 1961. She married actor Ty Hardin in 1962, but the marriage only lasted 3 years. In 1969, she married Iraqi-born filmmaker Howard Avedis. Their partnership resulted in numerous drive-in hits and cult classics, including The Stepmother (1972), The Teacher (1974) and Mortuary (1983). Marlene always produced, sometimes wrote and usually appeared in supporting roles in these productions.
Known For
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A young woman collapses on the disco dance floor of what's revealed to be strychnine poiso...
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Returning home from a business trip, an architect assumes that a client is having an affai...
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18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-ol...
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A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman fo...
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A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husb...
- 1968 Farewell, Lebanon
- 1974 The Teacher as Alice Roberts
- 1972 The Stepmother as Sonya Hill
- 1975 Dr. Minx as Harriet Thomas
- 1968 The Red Plain as Betty
- 1968 Destiny as Afsaneh
- 1988 Kidnapped as Secretary
- 1978 The Fifth Floor as Night Nurse
- 1981 Separate Ways as Pat Ingram
- 1978 Texas Detour as Lady Bartender
- 1982 Mortuary as Lois Stevens
- 1984 They're Playing with Fire as Gas Station Customer
- 1975 The Specialist as Elizabeth Bounds
- 1976 Scorchy as Claudia Bianco
