Lotte Lenya
October 17, 1898 (127 years old) in Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary
Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). She also played the murderous and sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love (1963). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lotte Lenya, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2025 · Dreadful Penny Dreadful as
- 2021 · Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh? as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Popular Voices at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 1994 · September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill as Self
- 1992 · I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America as
- 1989 · The Exiles as Self
- 1980 · No. 18: Mahagonny as Self (voice)
- 1977 · Semi-Tough as Carla Pelf
- 1969 · The Appointment as Emma Valadier
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1966 · NET Playhouse as
- 1966 · Ten Blocks on the Camino Real as The Gypsy
- 1965 · The Incredible World of James Bond as Self (archive footage)
- 1965 · Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War as Mutter Courage
- 1963 · From Russia with Love as Rosa Klebb
- 1962 · The Merv Griffin Show as Self
- 1961 · The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone as Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
- 1961 · Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill as Self
- 1961 · Treffpunkt New York as Self
- 1960 · George Grosz' Interregnum as Narrator
- 1931 · The 3 Penny Opera as Jenny