Elke Sommer, born Elke von Schletz, is a German actress, entertainer and artist, who has starred in many Hollywood films. She was spotted by film director Vittorio De Sica while on holiday in Italy, and began appearing in films there in 1958. Also that year, she changed her surname from Schletz to Sommer, which was easier to pronounce for a non-German audience. She quickly became a noted sex symbol and moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s. She also became one of the most popular pin-up girls of the time, and posed for several pictorials in Playboy magazine, including the September 1964 and December 1967 issues. Sommer became one of the top film actresses of the 1960s. She made just shy of 100 film and television appearances between 1959 and 2005, including A Shot in the Dark with Peter Sellers, The Art of Love with James Garner and Dick Van Dyke, The Oscar with Stephen Boyd, Boy Did I Get a Wrong Number! with Bob Hope, the Bulldog Drummond extravaganza Deadlier Than the Male, T...
Frontier Hellcat
1964
Lampenfieber
1960
The Jukebox Kids
1959
A Shot in the Dark
1964
Alles nur Tarnung
1996
La Pica sul Pacifico
1959
Mondo Hollywood
1967
The Swiss Conspiracy
1976
One Away
1976
US Against the World
1977
The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
2002
And Then There Were None
1974
Le Chien
1962
The Wrecking Crew
1968
The Oscar
1966
Twisted Sex Vol. 5
1993
Auf Wiedersehen
1961
Lisa and the Devil
1973
The Prize
1963
Carry On Behind
1975
Ship of the Dead
1959
Percy's Progress
1974
The Art of Love
1965
Flashback
2000
The Victors
1963
Seduction by the Sea
1963
Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous: The World's Most Exotic Vacation Resorts
1988
Deadlier Than the Male
1967
Zeppelin
1971
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
1968
The Dolls
1965
Jamaican Gold
1979
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
1966
Percy
1971
The Prisoner of Zenda
1979