Marthe Keller Biography (1945-)

Born January 28, 1945, in Basel, Switzerland; father, a horse breeder; children: (with Philippe De Broca) Alexandre. Addresses: Office: c/o Sam Cohn, 40 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019.; Agent: c/o Guy Bonnet, Agents Associes, 201 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, 75008 Paris, France.; Contact: c/o Lemonstr 9, 81679 Munich, Germany.

Nationality: Swiss
Gender: Male
Occupation: Actress, director, model
Birth Details: January 28, 1945; Basel, Switzerland

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Appearances
Nun, Wilder Reiter GmbH (also known as Wild Rider Ltd.), 1966
Brigit, Funeral in Berlin, Paramount, 1966
Amelie, The Devil by the Tail (also known as Le diable par la queue), Lopert, 1968
Marie Panneton, Give Her the Moon (also known as Les caprices de Marie), United Artists, 1970
Vicka, Old Maid (also known as La vieille fille and La tardona), Valoria, 1971
The Seven Minutes, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1971
Catherine, Un cave (also known as A Loser), 1971
Marlene, Elle court, elle court la banlieue (also known as La pendolare and The Suburbs Are Everywhere), United Artists, 1973
Marthe, La chute d'un corps (also known as Fall of a Body),Albina Productions, 1973
Autostoppeuse, La raison du plus fou (also known as The Right of the Maddest), 1973
Sarah, her mother, and her grandmother, And Now My Love (also known as Tutta una vita and Toute une vie), Avco-Embassy, 1974
Melba, Le guepier (also known as The Hornets' Nest), Columbia-Warner Distribution, 1975
Bianca, Down the Ancient Staircase (also known as Per le antiche scale, En descendant les marches d'antan, Down the Ancient Stairs, and Vertiges), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975
Angela, Only the Wind Knows the Answer (also known as Die Antwort Kennt Nur der Wind), Roxi Films, 1975
Elsa, Marathon Man, United Artists, 1976
Blind Love, 1976
Dahlia Iyad, Black Sunday, Paramount, 1977
Lillian Morelli, Bobby Deerfield (also known as Heaven Has No Favorites), Columbia, 1977
Title role and Antonia Sobryanski, Fedora, United Artists, 1979
Lisa Spangler, The Formula (also known as Die Formel), United Artists, 1980
Elisabeth Vaculik, The Amateur, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982
Cecile, Femmes de personne (also known as Nobody's Women),European Classics, 1983
Judy, Joan Luiu: But One Day in the Country I Come on Monday (alsoknown as Joan Lui: Ma un gioro ne paese arrivo io di lunedi), CDE, 1985
Bronka, Rouge baiser (also known as Red Kiss and Rote Kuesse), Circle Releasing, 1985
Tina, Dark Eyes (also known as Black Eyes, Oci Ciornie, andO cicionia un uomo clemente), Island, 1987
Georg Elser--Einer aus Deutschland (also known as Georg Elser and Seven Minutes), Mutoskop, 1989
Linda Farmer, Lapse of Memory (also known as Memoire traquee), Gerard Mital Productions, 1992

Catherine Mercier, Mon amie Max, Musidora Films, 1994
Signora Delgado, Pereira declares (also known as According to Pereira, Afirma Pereira, Pereira pretend, and Sostiene Pereira), Vertigo Films, 1995
Nuits blanches, 1996
Barbara, Elles (also known as Women, Elas, and Ostres desejos), Legal Video, 1997
Nora Winter, K, New Light Films, 1997
Madame Thorpe, The School of Flesh (also known as L'ecole de lachair), Arsenal, 1998
Christina, La derriere (also known as From Behind), 1999
Time of the Wolf, 2002
Television Appearances
Movies
Jean, Mein oder Dein, 1964
Aline, Tango, 1970
Esther, Die Frau des Reporters (documentary), 1986
Helma Schleyer, La ruelle au clair de lune, 1987
Eva Grundberg, Un coeur a prendre, 1991
Turbulences (also known as Son et lumiere), 1992
Marikka, Im Kreis der Iris, 1992
Title role, Jeanne d'Arc au bucher, 1993
Beatrice Belmont, Toedliches Geld (also known as Family of Lies), 1995
Series
Natacha, Arsene Lupin, 1971
Koba Lye-Lye, La demoiselle d'Avignon, 1972
Episodic
Diane, "Louis-Charles, mon amour," Sueurs froides, 1988
Miniseries
Duchess Sanseverina, The Charterhouse of Parma (also known asLaCertosa di Parma and Die Kartause von Parma), PBS, 1982
Mathilde de Wesendonck, Wagner, London Cultural Trust Productions,1983
Tess Shirer, The Nightmare Years, TNT, 1989
Catherine's mother, Young Catherine, TNT, 1991
Antoinette, Belle epoque, 1995
Also appeared as Julie Kaufman, Unna Vittoria (A Victory), RAI-1 (Italy).
Television Work
Specials
Opera director, Dialogues des Carmelites, 1999
Stage Appearances
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Paris, 1969
Masha, The Three Sisters, Paris, 1979
The Exiles, 1983
Title role, Joan of Arc at the Stake (dramatic oratorio), CarnegieHall, New York City, 1984
Jedermann, Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria, 1984
Don Carlos, 1986
(Broadway debut) Judgment at Nuremberg, 2001
Also performed as Juliet, Romeo and Juliet; appeared in A Monthin the Country, Paris; appeared in Betrayal, La ronde, Hamlet, T. H. Lawrence, and Emballage perdu. Has performedin more than fifty plays.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

Entertainment Weekly, December 9, 1994, p. 88
Variety, November 24, 1997, p. 67

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