Sybille Schmitz
Actor
Biography
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)
Filmography
Diary of a Lost Girl
as Elisabeth 1929
Titanic
as Sigrid Olinsky 1943
Accident
1928
F.P.1 Doesn't Answer
as Claire Lennartz 1932
Ferryman Maria
as Maria 1936
The Stars Shine
as Gast 1938
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
as Nelly Dreifuss 1947
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
as Gräfin Héloise Cambouilly 1938
Wetterleuchten um Barbara
as Barbara Stammer 1941
Das Leben ruft
as Hella Warkentin 1944
Rivalen der Luft
as Sportfliegerin Lisa Holm 1934
Trenck, der Pandur
as Prinzessin Deinartstein 1940
Stradivari
as Maria Belloni 1935
Hotel Sacher
as Nadja Woroneff 1939
Master of the World
as Vilma, seine Frau 1934
Clarissa
as Clarissa von Reckwitz 1941