Sybille Schmitz
Date of birth: 1909-12-02
Place of birth: Düren, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Sybille Maria Christine Petersson
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)
Movie Credits
Vampyr
1932-05-06
Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sin
F.P.1 Doesn't Answer
1932-12-22
F.P.1 is a huge airplane landing dock in the Atlantic where pilots making the transatlantic flight c
Titanic
1943-09-24
In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove
Accident
1928-11-06
A tense vignette about the fate of an unlucky man in poverty-stricken Weimar-era Germany.
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
1947-12-11
A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at o
Ferryman Maria
1936-01-07
A beautiful young drifter comes to a small village and battles Death itself to save the man she love
Die Umwege des schönen Karl
1938-01-30
Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in
Tanz auf dem Vulkan
1938-11-30
Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit a
Hotel Sacher
1939-03-15
Vienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the Fi
Rivalen der Luft
1934-01-19
Trenck, der Pandur
1940-08-23
Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of emp
Die Lüge
1950-08-10
Three men are planning a balloon ascent into the stratosphere. During the balloon flight, complicati
An Ideal Husband
1935-09-05
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this i
Master of the World
1934-08-11
A German scientist designs and builds a machine that will do dangerous work instead of placing human
Musik im Blut
1934-07-31
In Dresden's classical music world, female students learn from an opinionated conductor and a pompou
Punks kommt aus Amerika
1935-01-25
A German who has been away too long in America and has lost all of his money needs to prove himself
Farewell Waltz
1934-10-02
Warsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When
Stradivari
1935-08-25
In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owne
Illusion in Moll
1952-12-18
After the death of her wealthy but lonely husband, wealthy but lonely hotel owner Maria Alsbacher fa
Die Kronzeugin
1937-04-20
Vom Schicksal verweht
1942-07-24
The young doctor Dr. Virginia Larsen fights in vain against malaria on an island in the Antilles. Sh
Clarissa
1941-09-08
Clarissa is promoted to department head of Feerenbach's bank. He and bank clerk Lutz both love her.
The Last Night
1949-02-11
Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer
Oberwachtmeister Schwenke
1935-01-14
A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked
Wenn die Musik nicht wär
1935-09-25
The great Franz Liszt helps a struggling, unworldly piano tutor advance to a position in Munich, and
I Was Jack Mortimer
1935-10-16
The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating o
Die Leuchter des Kaisers
1936-02-14
Die Hochstaplerin
1944-01-07
A fake countess falls in love with an honest man.
Crown Jewels
1950-12-08
As foreign troops occupy the country, the government commissions a jeweler to bring the crown jewels
Freie Fahrt
1928-12-07
The struggels of the German proletariat over the course of several centuries. Propaganda film by the
The Stars Shine
1938-03-17
German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
Wetterleuchten um Barbara
1941-10-17
After an Austrian home guard raids a group of pro Nazi mountain folk, Barbara and her husband ,part
Diary of a Lost Girl
1929-09-27
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes
Das Leben ruft
1944-12-20
The Unknown
1936-11-12
The body of an unknown beautiful woman is fished out of the river and leaves the policemen wondering
Die Frau ohne Vergangenheit
1939-07-17
The House on the Coast
1954-06-30
The story takes place in a town on Adriatic coast. Mother wants to marry her daughter to a wealthy d
Signal in der Nacht
1937-09-30
Die fremde Frau
1939-08-31
Sensation im Savoy
1950-09-22
Dance with Death: The Ufa Star Sybille Schmitz
2000-12-31
A documentary of the life of German actress Sybille Schmitz (1909–1955) who rose to prominence in t