Romy Schneider
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Romy Schneider was an Austrian-born German film actress who also held French citizenship.
, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty
, her Austrian father Wolf Albach-Retty
and her German mother Magda Schneider
. After her parents' divorce in 1945, Magda took charge of Romy and her brother Wolfi, eventually supervising the young girl's career, often appearing alongside her daughter. Her career was also overseen by her stepfather, Hans Herbert Blatzheim, a noted restaurateur who Schneider indicated had an unhealthy interest in her.
, in the romantic biopic Sissi
(1955) and its two sequels, Sissi – The Young Empress (1956) and Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress (1957), all with Karlheinz Böhm
, who became a close friend. Less stereotypical films during this busy period include Robinson soll nicht sterben (The Legend of Robinson Crusoe) (1957) putting her among a stellar cast and opposite a young Horst Buchholz
, and Monpti (1957), directed by Helmut Käutner and again opposite Buchholz.
Schneider soon starred in Christine
(1958), a remake
of Max Ophüls
's 1933 film Liebelei
(itself based upon a play by Arthur Schnitzler
and starring her mother Magda Schneider). It was during the filming of Christine that Schneider fell in love with French actor Alain Delon
, who co-starred in the movie. She left Germany to join him in Paris and they announced their engagement in 1959.
Schneider decided to live and to work in France, slowly gaining the interest of film directors such as Orson Welles
for The Trial
(1962), based upon Franz Kafka
's The Trial
and was introduced by Delon to Luchino Visconti
.
Under Visconti's direction, she gave performances in the Théâtre Moderne
as Annabella (and Delon as Giovanni) in John Ford
's stage play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
(1961) and in the film Boccaccio '70
(segment: "The Job"). In 1962 Schneider played Anna in Sacha Pitoëff
's production of Chekhov
's play The Seagull
, also at the Théâtre Moderne. A brief stint in Hollywood
included appearances in Good Neighbor Sam
, a 1964 comedy
with Jack Lemmon
, and 1965 What's New Pussycat?
co-starring Peter O'Toole
, Peter Sellers
and Woody Allen
who also wrote the screenplay.
Schneider and Delon decided to split up in 1963 although they remained close lifelong friends and continued to work together in such films as La Piscine
(The Swimming Pool) (1968) and The Assassination of Trotsky
(1972).
Schneider continued to work in France during the 1970s, most notably with director Claude Sautet
on five occasions. Their first collaboration, Les choses de la vie
(1970) with Michel Piccoli, was a huge success and made Schneider a household name in France. The three teamed up again for the noir
thriller Max et les Ferrailleurs
(1971), and she appeared opposite Yves Montand
in Sautet's César et Rosalie (1972). Other successes included Le Train
(1973), where she played a German-Jewish refugee in World War 2, Claude Chabrol
's thriller Les innocents aux mains sales
(1975) opposite Rod Steiger
, and Le vieux fusil
(1975). The gritty L'important c'est d'aimer
(1974) garnered her first César Award
(France's equivalent of the Oscar), a feat she repeated five years later, in her last collaboration with Sautet, for Une histoire simple
(1978).
On 30 October 1974, Schneider created one of the most memorable moments on German television. She was the second guest on Dietmar Schönherr
's talk show Je später der Abend (The Later the Evening) when she, after a rather terse interview, remarked passionately to the last guest, bank robber and author Burkhard Driest: "Sie gefallen mir. Sie gefallen mir sehr." (I like you. I like you a lot.)
Ludwig
, Visconti's 1972 film
about the life of King Ludwig II of Bavaria
, featured her as a much more complex, mature, even bitter Elisabeth of Austria. "Sissi sticks to me just like oatmeal", Schneider once said.
She also acted in Le Trio infernal (1974) with Michel Piccoli, and in Garde à vue
(1981) with Michel Serrault
and Lino Ventura
. An unpleasant incident occurred during this period with leading German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
who wanted her to play the lead in his 1979 film The Marriage of Maria Braun
. Negotiations broke down when he called Schneider a "dumb cow" and Schneider responded by declaring she would never work with such a beast as Fassbinder.
In 1980 she starred in Bertrand Tavernier
's Death Watch
(La mort en direct), based on David G. Compton
's novel, playing a dying woman whose last days are watched on national television via a camera implanted in the brain of a journalist (Harvey Keitel
). Her last film was La Passante du Sans-Souci (The Passerby), (1982).
(1924–1979), a German director and actor who committed suicide
in Hamburg, Germany in 1979. The couple had a son, David Christopher, born on December 3, 1966. David died at the age of 14 on 5 July 1981. He had attempted to climb the spiked fence at his stepfather's parents' home when he punctured his femoral artery
.
In 1975, Schneider married Daniel Biasini, her private secretary; they separated in 1981. Their daughter Sarah Biasini
(born 21 July 1977) is now an actress.
Schneider began drinking alcohol in excess after the death of her son David. When she was found dead in her apartment in Paris
on 29 May 1982, it was suggested that she had committed suicide by taking a lethal cocktail of alcohol and sleeping pills
. After another post-mortem
examination was carried out, authorities declared that she had died from cardiac arrest
. Her tombstone at Boissy-sans-Avoir
in the Canton of Montfort-l'Amaury
bears the name Rosemarie Albach. Shortly afterwards, Alain Delon
arranged for David to be buried in the same grave.
; this prize—the most prestigious award for promising actresses in the French film industry
—is awarded by a jury each year in Paris in conjunction with the Prix Patrick Dewaere
(formerly the Prix Jean Gabin
). In 1990, the Austrian newspaper Kurier
created the Romy TV Award
in honour of Schneider. In 2003, she was voted 78th on the list of the greatest Germans in the German TV programme Unsere Besten
(the German version of 100 Greatest Britons
)—the second highest ranked actress (Marlene Dietrich
was 50th) on that list. Until 2002, the Austrian Federal Railways InterCity service IC 535 from Wien Südbahnhof to Graz
was named "Romy Schneider".
A movie about Schneider's life, titled Eine Frau wie Romy/Une femme comme Romy (A Woman Like Romy) was planned by Warner Bros.
for 2009; Schneider's role was going to be played by Yvonne Catterfeld
. The project was cancelled in July 2009. A musical about Schneider, Romy – Die Welt aus Gold (Romy – The Golden World) was premiered in 2009 at the Theater Heilbronn
. In November 2009 the ARD
broadcast the feature film Romy with Jessica Schwarz
in the title role.
Early life
Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the AnschlussAnschluss
The Anschluss , also known as the ', was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938....
, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty
Rosa Albach-Retty
Rosa Albach-Retty was an Austrian movie and stage actress. Her birth name was Rosa Clara Franziska Helene Retty....
, her Austrian father Wolf Albach-Retty
Wolf Albach-Retty
Wolf Albach-Retty was a Vienna-born Austrian actor. He had a daughter with German actress Magda Schneider named Romy Schneider....
and her German mother Magda Schneider
Magda Schneider
Magda Schneider was a German actress and singer; she was the mother of the actress Romy Schneider.- Biography :Magdalena Schneider was born in Augsburg, Bavaria. After training as a stenographer, she studied singing at the Augsburg Academy and ballet at the local theater. She made her stage debut...
. After her parents' divorce in 1945, Magda took charge of Romy and her brother Wolfi, eventually supervising the young girl's career, often appearing alongside her daughter. Her career was also overseen by her stepfather, Hans Herbert Blatzheim, a noted restaurateur who Schneider indicated had an unhealthy interest in her.
Career
Romy Schneider's first film, made when she was 15, was Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht (When the White Lilacs Bloom Again) in 1953, credited as Romy Schneider-Albach. In 1954, Schneider for the first time portrayed a royal, playing a young Queen Victoria in the Austrian film Mädchenjahre einer Königin (known in the U.S. as The Story of Vicky and in Britain as Victoria in Dover). Schneider's breakthrough came with her portrayal of Elisabeth, Empress Consort of AustriaElisabeth of Bavaria
Elisabeth of Austria was the spouse of Franz Joseph I, and therefore both Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. She also held the titles of Queen of Bohemia and Croatia, among others...
, in the romantic biopic Sissi
Sissi (film)
Sissi is a 1955 film directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz, Gustav Knuth, Vilma Degischer and Josef Meinrad. It is the first of a trilogy of romantic films about the Empress of Austria, Elisabeth of Bavaria, who was known to her family...
(1955) and its two sequels, Sissi – The Young Empress (1956) and Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress (1957), all with Karlheinz Böhm
Karlheinz Böhm
Karlheinz Böhm is an Austrian actor. The son of conductor Karl Böhm, he is best known internationally for his role as Mark, the psychopathic protagonist of Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell...
, who became a close friend. Less stereotypical films during this busy period include Robinson soll nicht sterben (The Legend of Robinson Crusoe) (1957) putting her among a stellar cast and opposite a young Horst Buchholz
Horst Buchholz
Horst Werner Buchholz was a German actor, remembered for his part in The Magnificent Seven and Nine Hours to Rama. He appeared in over sixty films during his acting career from 1952–2002.-Life and work:...
, and Monpti (1957), directed by Helmut Käutner and again opposite Buchholz.
Schneider soon starred in Christine
Christine (1958 film)
Christine is a 1958 film, based on the novel Liebelei by Arthur Schnitzler. The film was directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and the title character was played by Romy Schneider...
(1958), a remake
Remake
A remake is a piece of media based primarily on an earlier work of the same medium.-Film:The term "remake" is generally used in reference to a movie which uses an earlier movie as the main source material, rather than in reference to a second, later movie based on the same source...
of Max Ophüls
Max Ophüls
Maximillian Oppenheimer — known as Max Ophüls — was an influential German-born film director who worked in Germany , France , the United States , and France again...
's 1933 film Liebelei
Liebelei (film)
Liebelei is a German film directed by Max Ophüls. The film, based on a play of the same name by Arthur Schnitzler, describes an ill-fated love affair.-Plot:...
(itself based upon a play by Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler
Dr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.- Biography :Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter , was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian...
and starring her mother Magda Schneider). It was during the filming of Christine that Schneider fell in love with French actor Alain Delon
Alain Delon
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon is a French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared to French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot...
, who co-starred in the movie. She left Germany to join him in Paris and they announced their engagement in 1959.
Schneider decided to live and to work in France, slowly gaining the interest of film directors such as Orson Welles
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...
for The Trial
The Trial (1962 film)
The Trial is a 1962 film directed by Orson Welles, who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka...
(1962), based upon Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
's The Trial
The Trial
The Trial is a novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1925. One of Kafka's best-known works, it tells the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor the reader.Like Kafka's other novels, The Trial was never...
and was introduced by Delon to Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice .-Life:...
.
Under Visconti's direction, she gave performances in the Théâtre Moderne
Théâtre de Paris
The Théâtre de Paris is a theatre located at 15, rue Blanche in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It includes a second smaller venue, called the Petit Théâtre de Paris.-History:...
as Annabella (and Delon as Giovanni) in John Ford
John Ford (dramatist)
John Ford was an English Jacobean and Caroline playwright and poet born in Ilsington in Devon in 1586.-Life and work:...
's stage play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
'Tis Pity She's a Whore is a tragedy written by John Ford. It was likely first performed between 1629 and 1633, by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre. The play was first published in 1633, in a quarto printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller Richard Collins...
(1961) and in the film Boccaccio '70
Boccaccio '70
Boccaccio '70 is a 1962 Italian portmanteau film directed by Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio de Sica, from an idea by Cesare Zavattini...
(segment: "The Job"). In 1962 Schneider played Anna in Sacha Pitoëff
Sacha Pitoëff
Sacha Pitoëff was a French film actor and theater director.Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Pitoëff played his first film role in 1952. Appearing in over 50 movies, he is probably best known for his performance in Alain Resnais' enigmatic Last Year at Marienbad , as a character known simply as "M"...
's production of Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
's play The Seagull
The Seagull
The Seagull is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896...
, also at the Théâtre Moderne. A brief stint in Hollywood
Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period...
included appearances in Good Neighbor Sam
Good Neighbor Sam
Good Neighbor Sam is a 1964 American comedy movie co-written and directed by David Swift and starring Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider.It was based on the novel by Jack Finney. The screenplay was the motion picture debut of James Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum, who had written many American...
, a 1964 comedy
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...
with Jack Lemmon
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts , Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925June...
, and 1965 What's New Pussycat?
What's New Pussycat?
What's New Pussycat? is a 1965 comedy film directed by Clive Donner and starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss and Ursula Andress. It was Woody Allen's film debut, as well as his first produced script. The Academy Award-nominated title song by Burt Bacharach...
co-starring Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus Lorcan O'Toole is an Irish actor of stage and screen. O'Toole achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia, and then went on to become a highly-honoured film and stage actor. He has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds the record for most...
, Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE , known as Peter Sellers, was a British comedian and actor. Perhaps best known as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, he is also notable for playing three different characters in Dr...
and Woody Allen
Woody Allen
Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...
who also wrote the screenplay.
Schneider and Delon decided to split up in 1963 although they remained close lifelong friends and continued to work together in such films as La Piscine
La Piscine (film)
La Piscine is a 1969 Italian-French film directed by Jacques Deray. It is set in a villa with a pool in August at the Côte d'Azur...
(The Swimming Pool) (1968) and The Assassination of Trotsky
The Assassination of Trotsky
The Assassination of Trotsky is a 1972 British film directed by Joseph Losey with a screenplay by Nicholas Mosley. It starred Richard Burton as Leon Trotsky, as well as Romy Schneider and Alain Delon.-Plot:...
(1972).
Claude Sautet
Claude Sautet was a French author and film director.-Biography:Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Claude Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer...
on five occasions. Their first collaboration, Les choses de la vie
The Things of Life
The Things of Life is a 1970 French film directed by Claude Sautet. It was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. The film was a success in France with 2,959,682 admissions becoming the 8th highest earning film of the year...
(1970) with Michel Piccoli, was a huge success and made Schneider a household name in France. The three teamed up again for the noir
Film noir
Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s...
thriller Max et les Ferrailleurs
Max et les Ferrailleurs
Max et les Ferrailleurs is a 1971 Franco–Italian film directed by Claude Sautet. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Claude Néron.- Plot :...
(1971), and she appeared opposite Yves Montand
Yves Montand
-Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in...
in Sautet's César et Rosalie (1972). Other successes included Le Train
The Train (1973 film)
The Train is a 1973 Franco–Italian film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Georges Simenon.- Plot :...
(1973), where she played a German-Jewish refugee in World War 2, Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s...
's thriller Les innocents aux mains sales
Innocents with Dirty Hands
Innocents with Dirty Hands aka Dirty Hands. is a 1975 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is Les innocents aux mains sales. The film was based on the novel The Damned Innocents by Richard Neely...
(1975) opposite Rod Steiger
Rod Steiger
Rodney Stephen "Rod" Steiger was an Academy Award-winning American actor known for his performances in such films as On the Waterfront, The Big Knife, Oklahoma!, The Harder They Fall, Across the Bridge, The Pawnbroker, Doctor Zhivago, In the Heat of the Night, and Waterloo as well as the...
, and Le vieux fusil
Le vieux fusil
Le vieux fusil is a 1975 French film directed by Robert Enrico, and starring Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider and Jean Bouise. It won the 1976 César Award for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Music, and was nominated for best director, supporting actor, writing, cinematography, editing and sound...
(1975). The gritty L'important c'est d'aimer
L'important c'est d'aimer
L'important c'est d'aimer is a French film directed by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski. It tells the story of a passionate love relationship between Nadine Chevalier, a B-List actress and Servais Mont, a photographer in the violent and unforgiving French show biz.In 1975, Żuławski coadapted...
(1974) garnered her first César Award
César Award
The César Award is the national film award of France, first given out in 1975. The nominations are selected by the members of the Académie des arts et techniques du cinéma....
(France's equivalent of the Oscar), a feat she repeated five years later, in her last collaboration with Sautet, for Une histoire simple
A Simple Story (1978 film)
A Simple Story is a 1978 French drama film directed by Claude Sautet. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Cast:* Romy Schneider as Marie* Bruno Cremer as Georges* Claude Brasseur as Serge* Roger Pigaut as Jérôme...
(1978).
On 30 October 1974, Schneider created one of the most memorable moments on German television. She was the second guest on Dietmar Schönherr
Dietmar Schönherr
Dietmar Schönherr is an Austrian film actor. He has appeared in 120 films since 1944. He is famous for playing the role of Major Cliff Allister McLane in the German science fiction series Raumpatrouille....
's talk show Je später der Abend (The Later the Evening) when she, after a rather terse interview, remarked passionately to the last guest, bank robber and author Burkhard Driest: "Sie gefallen mir. Sie gefallen mir sehr." (I like you. I like you a lot.)
Ludwig
Ludwig (film)
Ludwig is a 1972 film directed by Italian director Luchino Visconti about the life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Visconti's muse, Helmut Berger, stars as Ludwig, while Romy Schneider reprises her role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in a very different portrayal compared to her role in...
, Visconti's 1972 film
1972 in film
The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Avanti!, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet MillsB...
about the life of King Ludwig II of Bavaria
Ludwig II of Bavaria
Ludwig II was King of Bavaria from 1864 until shortly before his death. He is sometimes called the Swan King and der Märchenkönig, the Fairy tale King...
, featured her as a much more complex, mature, even bitter Elisabeth of Austria. "Sissi sticks to me just like oatmeal", Schneider once said.
She also acted in Le Trio infernal (1974) with Michel Piccoli, and in Garde à vue
Garde à vue
Garde à vue is a 1981 French film directed by Claude Miller and starring Romy Schneider, Michel Serrault, Lino Ventura and Guy Marchand. It was based on the British novel Brainwash, by John Wainwright....
(1981) with Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault
Michel Serrault was a celebrated French actor who appeared in over 150 films.-Biography :...
and Lino Ventura
Lino Ventura
Lino Ventura , was an Italian actor who starred in French movies.-Biography:Born as Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura in Parma, Italy to Giovanni Ventura and Luisa Borrini, "Lino" dropped out of school at the age of eight and later took on a variety of jobs...
. An unpleasant incident occurred during this period with leading German film director Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Rainer Werner Maria Fassbinder was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. He is considered one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema.He maintained a frenetic pace in film-making...
who wanted her to play the lead in his 1979 film The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Marriage of Maria Braun
The Marriage of Maria Braun is a 1979 West German film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. The film stars Hanna Schygulla as Maria, whose marriage with the soldier Hermann remained unfulfilled due to World War II and his post-war imprisonment...
. Negotiations broke down when he called Schneider a "dumb cow" and Schneider responded by declaring she would never work with such a beast as Fassbinder.
In 1980 she starred in Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...
's Death Watch
Death Watch
Death Watch is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It is based on the novel The Unsleeping Eye by David G. Compton, also known as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe...
(La mort en direct), based on David G. Compton
David G. Compton
David Guy Compton is a British science fiction author who publishes SF under the name D.G. Compton. His earlier crime novels were published under 'Guy Compton',and his Gothick novels under 'Frances Lynch'. He has also written short stories, radio plays, and a non-fiction book on stammering, its...
's novel, playing a dying woman whose last days are watched on national television via a camera implanted in the brain of a journalist (Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel is an American actor. Some of his most notable starring roles were in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, Ridley Scott's The Duellists and Thelma and Louise, Ettore Scola's That Night in Varennes, Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Jane Campion's The...
). Her last film was La Passante du Sans-Souci (The Passerby), (1982).
Personal life
In July 1966 Schneider married Harry MeyenHarry Meyen
Harry Meyen was a German film actor. He appeared in over 40 films and television productions between 1948 and 1975. In the 1960s he worked as a successful theatre director in West Germany....
(1924–1979), a German director and actor who committed suicide
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
in Hamburg, Germany in 1979. The couple had a son, David Christopher, born on December 3, 1966. David died at the age of 14 on 5 July 1981. He had attempted to climb the spiked fence at his stepfather's parents' home when he punctured his femoral artery
Femoral artery
The femoral artery is a general term comprising a few large arteries in the thigh. They begin at the inguinal ligament and end just above the knee at adductor canal or Hunter's canal traversing the extent of the femur bone....
.
In 1975, Schneider married Daniel Biasini, her private secretary; they separated in 1981. Their daughter Sarah Biasini
Sarah Biasini
Sarah Magdalena Biasini is a French actress, the daughter of the late actress Romy Schneider and her second husband and former private secretary Daniel Biasini....
(born 21 July 1977) is now an actress.
Death
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
on 29 May 1982, it was suggested that she had committed suicide by taking a lethal cocktail of alcohol and sleeping pills
Sedative
A sedative or tranquilizer is a substance that induces sedation by reducing irritability or excitement....
. After another post-mortem
Autopsy
An autopsy—also known as a post-mortem examination, necropsy , autopsia cadaverum, or obduction—is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse to determine the cause and manner of death and to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present...
examination was carried out, authorities declared that she had died from cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest
Cardiac arrest, is the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the heart to contract effectively...
. Her tombstone at Boissy-sans-Avoir
Boissy-sans-Avoir
Boissy-sans-Avoir is a commune in the Yvelines department in north-central France.It is the burial place of actress Romy Schneider.-References:*...
in the Canton of Montfort-l'Amaury
Canton of Montfort-l'Amaury
The canton of Montfort-l'Amaury has 40,027 people and 29 communes:*Auteuil : 864*Autouillet : 348*Bazoches-sur-Guyonne : 477*Béhoust : 374*Beynes : 7,200*Boissy-sans-Avoir : 519*Flexanville : 525*Galluis : 1,034*Garancières : 2,242*Goupillières : 381...
bears the name Rosemarie Albach. Shortly afterwards, Alain Delon
Alain Delon
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon is a French actor. He rose quickly to stardom, and by the age of 23 was already being compared to French actors such as Gérard Philipe and Jean Marais, as well as American actor James Dean. He was even called the male Brigitte Bardot...
arranged for David to be buried in the same grave.
Enduring popularity
The French journalist Eugène Moineau initiated in 1984 the Prix Romy SchneiderPrix Romy Schneider
The Prix Romy Schneider is the most prestigious award for promising upcoming actresses in the French film industry.It was initiated in 1984 by the French journalists Marlène and Eugène Moineau and is named after the actress Romy Schneider...
; this prize—the most prestigious award for promising actresses in the French film industry
Cinema of France
The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its early significant contributions. Several important cinematic movements, including the Nouvelle...
—is awarded by a jury each year in Paris in conjunction with the Prix Patrick Dewaere
Patrick Dewaere
Patrick Dewaere was a French film actor. He was born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, son of French actress Mado Maurin. His five siblings, Jean-Pierre Maurin , Yves-Marie Maurin , Dominique Maurin , Jean-Francois Maurin and Marie-Veronique Maurin Patrick Dewaere (26 January 1947 – 16 July 1982)...
(formerly the Prix Jean Gabin
Jean Gabin
-Biography:Born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, he grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, about 22 mi north of Paris. The son of cabaret entertainers, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly...
). In 1990, the Austrian newspaper Kurier
Kurier
The Kurier is an Austrian newspaper based in Vienna....
created the Romy TV Award
Romy (TV award)
The Romy TV award in honor of the actress Romy Schneider was created in 1990 by the Austrian newspaper Kurier – or rather their movie reviewer Rudolf John, who also designed the 30.5 cm gilded trophy. It recalls a scene from the movie The Swimmingpool with Alain Delon, when Romy Schneider...
in honour of Schneider. In 2003, she was voted 78th on the list of the greatest Germans in the German TV programme Unsere Besten
Unsere Besten
Unsere Besten was a television series shown in German public television in November 2003, similar to the BBC series 100 Greatest Britons....
(the German version of 100 Greatest Britons
100 Greatest Britons
100 Greatest Britons was broadcast in 2002 by the BBC. The programme was the result of a vote conducted to determine whom the United Kingdom public considers the greatest British people in history. The series, Great Britons, included individual programmes on the top ten, with viewers having further...
)—the second highest ranked actress (Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself, professionally and characteristically. In the Berlin of the 1920s, she acted on the stage and in silent films...
was 50th) on that list. Until 2002, the Austrian Federal Railways InterCity service IC 535 from Wien Südbahnhof to Graz
Graz
The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...
was named "Romy Schneider".
A movie about Schneider's life, titled Eine Frau wie Romy/Une femme comme Romy (A Woman Like Romy) was planned by Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
for 2009; Schneider's role was going to be played by Yvonne Catterfeld
Yvonne Catterfeld
Yvonne Catterfeld is a German singer, actress and TV host.-Biography:Catterfeld was born in Erfurt, Thuringia, then in East Germany, in 1979. At the age of 15 she started playing the piano and the flute, simultaneously taking first dance and vocal lessons...
. The project was cancelled in July 2009. A musical about Schneider, Romy – Die Welt aus Gold (Romy – The Golden World) was premiered in 2009 at the Theater Heilbronn
Heilbronn
Heilbronn is a city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is completely surrounded by Heilbronn County and with approximately 123.000 residents, it is the sixth-largest city in the state....
. In November 2009 the ARD
ARD (broadcaster)
ARD is a joint organization of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters...
broadcast the feature film Romy with Jessica Schwarz
Jessica Schwarz
-Biography:Schwarz was born and grew up in the small town of Michelstadt, Germany. She won a contest of the German teen magazine Bravo in 1993. Subsequently, she worked as a model and VJ for the music channel VIVA. In 2000 she started her acting career and occasionally hosts events, e.g. the German...
in the title role.
Filmography
| Title | Year | Role | Director |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht | 1953 | Evchen Förster | Hans Deppe |
| Mädchenjahre einer Königin | 1954 | Princess Victoria / Queen Victoria | Ernst Marischka Ernst Marischka Ernst Marischka was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 93 films between 1913 and 1962. He also directed 29 films between 1915 and 1962... |
| Feuerwerk Feuerwerk Feuerwerk is a 1954 West German musical comedy film directed by Kurt Hoffmann and starring Lilli Palmer, Karl Schönböck and Romy Schneider. Its English-language title is Fireworks.-Cast:* Lilli Palmer: Iduna... |
1954 | Anna Oberholzer | Paul Burkhard Paul Burkhard Paul Burkhard was Swiss composer. He wrote primarily Oratoria, Musicals and Operettas.His probably most famous artistic creation was the song Oh mein Papa , about the death of a beloved clown-father, written for the musical "Der Schwarze Hecht" that premiered in April 1939... , Erik Charell Erik Charell Erich Karl Löwenberg , later known as Erik Charell, was a German actor and director. He was best known as a director of musical revues and operettas, especially at Großes Schauspielhaus in Berlin... , and Kurt Hoffmann Kurt Hoffmann Kurt Hoffmann was a German film director. He directed 48 films between 1938 and 1971. His film The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:... |
| Der letzte Mann | 1955 | Niddy Hoevelmann | Harald Braun Harald Braun Harald Braun was a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. He directed 21 films between 1942 and 1960.-Selected filmography:* The Falling Star * No Greater Love... |
| Die Deutschmeister | 1955 | Stanzi Hübner | Ernst Marischka |
| Sissi Sissi (film) Sissi is a 1955 film directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz, Gustav Knuth, Vilma Degischer and Josef Meinrad. It is the first of a trilogy of romantic films about the Empress of Austria, Elisabeth of Bavaria, who was known to her family... |
1955 | Sissi Elisabeth of Bavaria Elisabeth of Austria was the spouse of Franz Joseph I, and therefore both Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. She also held the titles of Queen of Bohemia and Croatia, among others... |
Ernst Marischka |
| Kitty und die große Welt | 1956 | Kitty Dupont | Alfred Weidenmann Alfred Weidenmann Alfred Weidenmann was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 36 films between 1942 and 1984.-Selected filmography:* Der Stern von Afrika * Sacred Waters * Adorable Julia... |
| Sissi – Die junge Kaiserin | 1956 | Sissi | Ernst Marischka |
| Sissi – Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin | 1957 | Sissi | Ernst Marischka |
| Robinson soll nicht sterben | 1957 | Maud | Josef von Báky Josef von Baky Josef von Báky was a Hungarian filmmaker. He was also known as Josef v. Baky and József Baky. He was born in the town of Zombor in the Kingdom of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, since 1920 Sombor in Yugoslavia., . He worked as an assistant to Geza von Bolvary.He worked as director or... |
| Monpti | 1957 | Anne-Claire Jouvain | Helmut Käutner |
| Eva Eva (1958 film) Eva is a 1958 Austrian comedy film directed by Rolf Thiele. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Romy Schneider - Nicole* Carlos Thompson - Irving* Magda Schneider - Dassou* Gertraud Jesserer - Brigitte* Alfred Costas - Thomas... (Die Halbzarte) |
1958 | Nicole | Rolf Thiele Rolf Thiele Rolf Thiele was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 42 films between 1951 and 1977. He was born in Budweis, then in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His 1958 film Eva was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival... |
| Scampolo Scampolo Scampolo is a 1958 German film, directed Alfred Weidenmann, with Romy Schneider in the title role.-Cast:*Romy Schneider: Scampolo*Paul Hubschmid: Roberto Costa, archirect*Georg Thomalla: Andreas Michaels, fashion photographer*Eva Maria Meineke: Sabina... |
1958 | Scampolo | Alfred Weidenmann |
| Mädchen in Uniform Mädchen in Uniform (1958 film) Mädchen in Uniform is a 1958 German drama film directed by Géza von Radványi. It was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival... |
1958 | Manuela von Meinhardis | Géza von Radványi |
| Christine Christine (1958 film) Christine is a 1958 film, based on the novel Liebelei by Arthur Schnitzler. The film was directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit and the title character was played by Romy Schneider... |
1958 | Christine Weiring | Pierre Gaspard-Huit |
| Katia | 1959 | Katia | Robert Siodmak Robert Siodmak Robert Siodmak was a German born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s.-Early life:... |
| Die schöne Lügnerin | 1959 | Fanny Emmetsrieder | Axel von Ambesser |
| Ein Engel auf Erden | 1959 | Stewardess/Angel | Géza von Radványi Géza von Radványi Géza von Radványi , was a Hungarian film director, cinematographer, producer and writer.- Biography :... |
| Purple Noon (Plein soleil) | 1960 | Freddie's companion (uncredited) | René Clément |
| Boccaccio '70 Boccaccio '70 Boccaccio '70 is a 1962 Italian portmanteau film directed by Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio de Sica, from an idea by Cesare Zavattini... |
1961 | Pupe (segment Il lavoro) | Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. He is best known for his films The Leopard and Death in Venice .-Life:... |
| Le Combat dans l'île | 1962 | Anne | Alain Cavalier Alain Cavalier Alain Cavalier is a French film director. He was born in Vendôme, Loir-et-Cher and studied film at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques. He won several awards, including the César Award for Best Film and César Award for Best Director for his film Thérèse in 1987... |
| The Trial The Trial (1962 film) The Trial is a 1962 film directed by Orson Welles, who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka... |
1962 | |Leni | Orson Welles Orson Welles George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio... |
| The Victors The Victors (film) -Overview:The film follows a group of U.S. soldiers through Europe during World War II, from Britain in 1942, through the fierce fighting in Italy and France, to the uneasy peace of Berlin. It is adapted from a collection of short stories called The Human Kind by British author Alexander Baron,... |
1962 | Regine | Carl Foreman Carl Foreman Carl Foreman, CBE was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the notable film High Noon. He was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.-Biography:... |
| The Cardinal The Cardinal The Cardinal is a 1963 film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson.... |
1963 | Annemarie von Hartman | Otto Preminger Otto Preminger Otto Ludwig Preminger was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director.After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura and Fallen Angel... |
| Good Neighbor Sam Good Neighbor Sam Good Neighbor Sam is a 1964 American comedy movie co-written and directed by David Swift and starring Jack Lemmon and Romy Schneider.It was based on the novel by Jack Finney. The screenplay was the motion picture debut of James Fritzell and Everett Greenbaum, who had written many American... |
1964 | Janet Lagerlof | David Swift David Swift (director) David Swift was an American film actor, writer, director and producer. He is best known for his 1967 film, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and the Disney films Parent Trap franchise.-Biography:... |
| L'Enfer L'Enfer (Clouzot) Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno is a film directed, written and produced by Henri-Georges Clouzot, cinematography by Andréas Winding and Armand Thirard, which remained unfinished in 1964... |
1964L'Enfer remained unfinished in 1964; it was released as L' Enfer de Henri-Georges Clouzot in 2009 by Serge Bromberg. | Odette | Henri-Georges Clouzot Henri-Georges Clouzot Henri-Georges Clouzot was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed The Wages of Fear and Les Diaboliques, which are critically recognized to be among the greatest films from the 1950s... |
| L'Amour à la mer | 1965 | The star | Guy Gilles Guy Gilles Guy Gilles born Guy Chiche was a French film director.- Biography :He directed his first short film, Soleil éteint in 1958. He changed his surname to Gilles based on the name of his mother to create a pseudonym... |
| Is Paris Burning? Is Paris Burning? Is Paris Burning? is a 1966 film dealing with the 1944 liberation of Paris by rival branches of the French Resistance and the Free French Forces.-Plot:... (Paris brûle-t-il ?) |
1965 | scene cut | René Clément |
| What's New Pussycat? What's New Pussycat? What's New Pussycat? is a 1965 comedy film directed by Clive Donner and starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss and Ursula Andress. It was Woody Allen's film debut, as well as his first produced script. The Academy Award-nominated title song by Burt Bacharach... |
1965 | Carole Werner | Clive Donner Clive Donner Clive Stanley Donner was a British film director who was a defining part of the British New Wave, directing films such as The Caretaker, Nothing But the Best, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush and What's New Pussycat?... |
| 10:30 P.M. Summer 10:30 P.M. Summer 10:30 P.M. Summer is a 1966 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin, husband of star Melina Mercouri.-Plot:Maria and Paul, a couple in their forties, travel through Spain with a new friend, Claire , a younger woman. The couple's daughter is also part of the trip... |
1965 | Claire | Jules Dassin Jules Dassin Julius "Jules" Dassin , was an American film director, with Jewish-Russian origins. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career.-Early life:... |
| La Voleuse | 1965 | Julia Kreuz | Jean Chapot |
| Triple Cross | 1966 | Countess | Terence Young |
| Otley Otley (film) Otley is a 1968 British comedy thriller film.-Outline:Gerald Arthur Otley , a hapless and light-fingered antiques dealer, is mistaken for a spy and grows into the part - to such an extent that the real spy falls in love with him... |
1968 | Imogen | Dick Clement Dick Clement Dick Clement, OBE is an English writer.Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, Clement was educated at Bishop's Stortford College and is best known for his writing partnership with Ian La Frenais. Generally, Clement and La Frenais write comedies, or dramas with a comic tone... |
| The Swimming Pool La Piscine (film) La Piscine is a 1969 Italian-French film directed by Jacques Deray. It is set in a villa with a pool in August at the Côte d'Azur... |
1969 | Marianne | Jacques Deray Jacques Deray Jacques Deray was a French film director and screenwriter. Deray is prominently known for directing many crime and thriller films.-Biography:... |
| La califfa La califfa La califfa is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Bevilacqua. It was entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Romy Schneider - Irene Corsini, La Califfa* Ugo Tognazzi - Annibale Doberdò... |
1970 | Irene Corsini | Alberto Bevilacqua Alberto Bevilacqua Alberto Bevilacqua is an Italian writer and filmmaker. Leonardo Sciascia, an Italian writer and politician, read Bevilacqua's first collection of stories, The Dust on the Grass , was impressed and published it... |
| Les choses de la vie The Things of Life The Things of Life is a 1970 French film directed by Claude Sautet. It was nominated for the Golden Palm at the 1970 Cannes Film Festival. The film was a success in France with 2,959,682 admissions becoming the 8th highest earning film of the year... |
1970 | Hélène | Claude Sautet Claude Sautet Claude Sautet was a French author and film director.-Biography:Born in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Claude Sautet first studied painting and sculpture before attending a film university in Paris where he began his career and later became a television producer... |
| My Lover My Son My Lover My Son My Lover My Son is a 1970 US-American-British coproduction directed by John Newland. It tells the story of a mother played by Romy Schneider clinging to her maturing son. The film is based on Edward Grierson's novel Reputation for a Song.- Plot :... |
1970 | Francesca Anderson | John Newland John Newland John Newland was an American director, actor, television producer, and screenwriter.-Early life and career:... |
| Qui ? | 1970 | Marina | Léonard Keigel |
| Bloomfield Bloomfield (film) Bloomfield is a 1971 British-Israeli drama film directed by Richard Harris and Uri Zohar. It was entered into the 21st Berlin International Film Festival.-Cast:* Richard Harris – Eitan... |
1971 | Nira | Richard Harris Richard Harris Richard St John Harris was an Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer.... |
| The Assassination of Trotsky The Assassination of Trotsky The Assassination of Trotsky is a 1972 British film directed by Joseph Losey with a screenplay by Nicholas Mosley. It starred Richard Burton as Leon Trotsky, as well as Romy Schneider and Alain Delon.-Plot:... |
1971 | Gita Samuels | Joseph Losey Joseph Losey Joseph Walton Losey was an American theater and film director. After studying in Germany with Bertolt Brecht, Losey returned to the United States, eventually making his way to Hollywood... |
| Max et les Ferrailleurs Max et les Ferrailleurs Max et les Ferrailleurs is a 1971 Franco–Italian film directed by Claude Sautet. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Claude Néron.- Plot :... |
1971 | Lily | Claude Sautet |
| César et Rosalie | 1972 | Rosalie | Claude Sautet |
| Ludwig Ludwig (film) Ludwig is a 1972 film directed by Italian director Luchino Visconti about the life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Visconti's muse, Helmut Berger, stars as Ludwig, while Romy Schneider reprises her role as Empress Elisabeth of Austria in a very different portrayal compared to her role in... |
1972 | Elisabeth of Austria | Luchino Visconti |
| Le Train The Train (1973 film) The Train is a 1973 Franco–Italian film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Georges Simenon.- Plot :... |
1973 | Anna Kupfer | Pierre Granier-Deferre Pierre Granier-Deferre Pierre Granier-Deferre was a French film director. His 1971 film Le Chat won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival.... |
| Un amour de pluie | 1974 | Elizabeth | Jean-Claude Brialy Jean-Claude Brialy Jean-Claude Brialy – died 30 May 2007, Monthyon, Seine-et-Marne, France was a French actor, director, and socialite.-Biography:... |
| Le Trio infernal | 1974 | Philomena Schmidt | Francis Girod Francis Girod Francis Girod was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1974 and 2006. His film L'enfance de l'art was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival... |
| L'important c'est d'aimer L'important c'est d'aimer L'important c'est d'aimer is a French film directed by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski. It tells the story of a passionate love relationship between Nadine Chevalier, a B-List actress and Servais Mont, a photographer in the violent and unforgiving French show biz.In 1975, Żuławski coadapted... |
1974 | Nadine Chevalier | Andrzej Żuławski |
| Le mouton enragé | 1974 | Roberte Groult | Michel Deville Michel Deville Michel Deville is a French film director and screenwriter.Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors... |
| Le vieux fusil Le vieux fusil Le vieux fusil is a 1975 French film directed by Robert Enrico, and starring Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider and Jean Bouise. It won the 1976 César Award for Best Film, Best Actor and Best Music, and was nominated for best director, supporting actor, writing, cinematography, editing and sound... |
1975 | Clara Dandieu | Robert Enrico Robert Enrico Robert Georgio Enrico was a French film director and scriptwriter.He was born in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, in the north of France.-Filmography as director:* Fait d'hiver... |
| Les innocents aux mains sales Innocents with Dirty Hands Innocents with Dirty Hands aka Dirty Hands. is a 1975 film written and directed by Claude Chabrol. Its title in French is Les innocents aux mains sales. The film was based on the novel The Damned Innocents by Richard Neely... |
1975 | Julie Wormser | Claude Chabrol Claude Chabrol Claude Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s... |
| Mado | 1976 | Hélène | Claude Sautet |
| Une femme à sa fenêtre | 1976 | Margot Santorini | Pierre Granier-Deferre Pierre Granier-Deferre Pierre Granier-Deferre was a French film director. His 1971 film Le Chat won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival.... |
| Gruppenbild mit Dame Group Portrait with Lady (film) Group Portrait with Lady is a 1977 German-French drama film directed by Aleksandar Petrović. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival... |
1977 | Leni Gruyten | Aleksandar Petrović |
| A Simple Story A Simple Story (1978 film) A Simple Story is a 1978 French drama film directed by Claude Sautet. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Cast:* Romy Schneider as Marie* Bruno Cremer as Georges* Claude Brasseur as Serge* Roger Pigaut as Jérôme... |
1978 | Marie | Claude Sautet |
| Bloodline | 1979 | Hélène Martin | Terence Young |
| Clair de femme | 1979 | Lydia | Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z... |
| Death Watch Death Watch Death Watch is a 1980 science fiction film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It is based on the novel The Unsleeping Eye by David G. Compton, also known as The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe... |
1979 | Katherine Mortenhoe | Bertrand Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen... |
| La Banquière | 1980 | Emma Eckhert | Francis Girod Francis Girod Francis Girod was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 20 films between 1974 and 2006. His film L'enfance de l'art was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival... |
| Fantasma d'amore Fantasma d'amore Fantasma d'amore is a 1981 Italian drama film directed by Dino Risi.-Cast:* Romy Schneider - Anna Brigatti Zighi* Marcello Mastroianni - Nino Monti* Eva Maria Meineke - Teresa Monti* Wolfgang Preiss - Conte Zighi* Michael Kroecher - Don Gaspare... |
1981 | Anna Brigatti Zighi | Dino Risi |
| Garde à vue Garde à vue Garde à vue is a 1981 French film directed by Claude Miller and starring Romy Schneider, Michel Serrault, Lino Ventura and Guy Marchand. It was based on the British novel Brainwash, by John Wainwright.... |
1981 | Chantal Martinaud | Claude Miller Claude Miller Claude Miller is a French film director, producer and screenwriter.-Career:Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his first practical cinematic experience while he was in uniform, serving with the Service Cinéma de l'Armée... |
| La Passante du Sans-Souci | 1982 | Elsa Wiener/Lina Baumstein | Jacques Rouffio Jacques Rouffio Jacques Rouffio is a French film director and screenwriter. His 1986 film My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival.-Filmography as director:... |
Awards
- BambiBambi (prize)The Bambi - Deutschlands Wichtigster Medienpreis, often simply called Bambi Awards and stylized as BAMBI, are presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year",...
: 1957 nominated for SissiSissi (film)Sissi is a 1955 film directed by Ernst Marischka and starring Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz, Gustav Knuth, Vilma Degischer and Josef Meinrad. It is the first of a trilogy of romantic films about the Empress of Austria, Elisabeth of Bavaria, who was known to her family... - BRAVO Otto (German magazine (BRAVOBravo (magazine)Bravo is the largest teen magazine within the German-language sphere. The first issue was published in 1956, subtitled as "the magazine for film and television" . Marilyn Monroe's portrait graced the first published issue, the never-published dummy issue cover displayed Elvis Presley.-History:The...
) audience voted prize)- 1957: Bronze
- 1958: Gold
- 1959: Silver
- 1971: Silver
- 1972: Bronze
- 1977: Bronze
- Étoile de Cristal: 1963 for The TrialThe Trial (1962 film)The Trial is a 1962 film directed by Orson Welles, who also wrote the screenplay based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka...
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama: 1963 nominated for The CardinalThe CardinalThe Cardinal is a 1963 film which was produced independently and directed by Otto Preminger, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Dozier, based on the novel by Henry Morton Robinson....
- César Award for Best ActressCésar Award for Best ActressList of winners and nominees of the César Award for Best Actress .-Winners and nominees:...
- 1975: won for L'important c'est d'aimerL'important c'est d'aimerL'important c'est d'aimer is a French film directed by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Żuławski. It tells the story of a passionate love relationship between Nadine Chevalier, a B-List actress and Servais Mont, a photographer in the violent and unforgiving French show biz.In 1975, Żuławski coadapted...
- 1976: nominated for Une femme à sa fenêtre
- 1978: won for Une histoire simpleA Simple Story (1978 film)A Simple Story is a 1978 French drama film directed by Claude Sautet. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.-Cast:* Romy Schneider as Marie* Bruno Cremer as Georges* Claude Brasseur as Serge* Roger Pigaut as Jérôme...
- 1979: nominated for Clair de femme
- 1982: nominated for La Passante du Sans-Souci
- 1975: won for L'important c'est d'aimer
- Deutscher FilmpreisDeutscher FilmpreisThe Deutscher Filmpreis is the highest German movie award. From 1951 to 2004 it was awarded by a commission, since 2005 the award has been given by the Deutsche Filmakademie...
Best Actress: 1977 for Group Portrait with LadyGroup Portrait with Lady (film)Group Portrait with Lady is a 1977 German-French drama film directed by Aleksandar Petrović. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival... - Premio David di DonatelloDavid di DonatelloDavid di Donatello, named after Donatello's David, is a movie award assigned each year for cinematic performances and production by Ente David di Donatello, part of Accademia del Cinema Italiano. It is the Italian equivalent to the Academy Award. There are 24 categories as of 2006.- History :The...
: 1979 Lifetime Achievement
Awards named after Romy Schneider
- Prix Romy SchneiderPrix Romy SchneiderThe Prix Romy Schneider is the most prestigious award for promising upcoming actresses in the French film industry.It was initiated in 1984 by the French journalists Marlène and Eugène Moineau and is named after the actress Romy Schneider...
, French film award established in 1984 - RomyRomy (TV award)The Romy TV award in honor of the actress Romy Schneider was created in 1990 by the Austrian newspaper Kurier – or rather their movie reviewer Rudolf John, who also designed the 30.5 cm gilded trophy. It recalls a scene from the movie The Swimmingpool with Alain Delon, when Romy Schneider...
, Austrian award established in 1990
Literature
- Hans-Jürgen Tast: Romy Schneider – Ein Leben auf Titelseiten Schellerten 2008, ISBN 978-3-88842-036-8.
- Michael Töteberg: Romy Schneider, Rowohlt Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-499-50669-7