Marlene Schmidt
Fled East Germany in 1960 to live in Stuttgart and work as an electronics engineer. Soon after, she entered a beauty contest on a whim and ended up winning the title of Miss Germany. That led to being crowned Miss Universe in 1961. She married actor Ty Hardin in 1962, but the marriage only lasted 3 years. In 1969, she married Iraqi-born filmmaker Howard Avedis. Their partnership resulted in numerous drive-in hits and cult classics, including The Stepmother (1972), The Teacher (1974) and Mortuary (1983). Marlene always produced, sometimes wrote and usually appeared in supporting roles in these productions.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4727 |
| Birthday | 1934-09-07 |
| Place of Birth | Breslau, Germany |
| Also Known As |
1968
Farewell, Lebanon
0/0
The film presents the topic of migration, cultural contrast and human alienation, through a group of young people who are forced to migrate, facing se...
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Farewell, Lebanon
1974
The Teacher
4.471/34
18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-old teacher Diane, who's husband is too often motorcycle-racin...
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The Teacher
1972
The Stepmother
4.067/15
Returning home from a business trip, an architect assumes that a client is having an affair with his wife and murders the man. His feelings of guilt a...
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The Stepmother
1975
Dr. Minx
4/7
A small-town doctor (Edy Williams) becomes a suspect while probing her rich husband's mysterious death.
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Dr. Minx
1968
The Red Plain
5/2
With Rezvan's death his nephew Betty comes to Iran from abroad to sell the lands she has inherited from him. Fahim wants the lands for himself but Bah...
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The Red Plain
1968
Destiny
10/1
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Destiny
1988
Kidnapped
4.2/10
A woman's sister is kidnapped on her 16th Birthday and forced into filming pornography. A policeman helps the woman rescue her teenage sister from the...
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Kidnapped
1978
The Fifth Floor
4.938/16
A young woman collapses on the disco dance floor of what's revealed to be strychnine poisoning. Assuming that this is an attempt at suicide, her boyfr...
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The Fifth Floor
1981
Separate Ways
4.7/10
A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.
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Separate Ways
1978
Texas Detour
4.444/9
A trip across the United States takes a wrong turn when three California teenagers have their van stolen. Stranded in a backwoods town with the sherif...
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Texas Detour
1982
Mortuary
5.3/85
A young woman investigates the seemingly accidental death of her father, revealing many unsettling secrets and putting her in mortal danger.
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Mortuary
1984
They're Playing with Fire
5.06/50
A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom prof...
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They're Playing with Fire
1975
The Specialist
4.667/6
Jerry Bounds, an upright lawyer, must stand up against Pike Smith and his the water company's efforts to exploit a local lake.
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The Specialist
1976
Scorchy
4.417/12
Seattle undercover narc Jackie Parker is out to bust the drug smuggling ring commanded by Philip Bianco.
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