Cornell Borchers
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| Born | March 16, 1925 Heydekrug, Lithuania |
| Occupation | Actress |
Cornell Borchers (born Cornelia Bruch in Heydekrug, Memelland, Lithuania (formerly East Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia, Germany, currently Šilutė, Šilutė district municipality, Klaipėda County, Klaipėda Region, Lithuania), on March 16, 1925) was a German either Prussian Lithuanian or Memellander actress in the late 1940s and 1950s who starred along with Errol Flynn and Nat King Cole in the film Istanbul (1957). She appeared on the cover of East German magazine Neue Film Welt of 1949, Volume 3, Issue 4. She won a BAFTA Film Award it the category of Best Foreign Actress in 1955 for the movie The Divided Heart of 1954. She retired from acting to raise her child. She currently lives in Bavaria, Germany, as of July, 2007.
She married twice, to Bruce Cunningham and to Dr. Anton Schelkopf (aka Dr. Toni Schelkopf, Toni Schelkopf or Schelkopf Toni), a Psychologist Doctor and Film Producer whom she met twice when she starred in his films Schule für Eheglück (1954) and Rot ist die Liebe (1957), later divorced, by whom she had at least one daughter, Julia Schelkopf, born in Munich, on September 15, 1962, who married at Aufkirchen on May 30, 1987 HSH Friedrich Wilhelm Philipp Georg Heinrich Jakob 7th Fürst von Hanau Graf von Schaumburg, born in Munich, on June 26, 1959, and by whom she had three children: HSH Tassilo Hubertus Heinrich Antonius Erbprinz von Hanau Erbgraf von Schaumburg (born Starnberg, November 8, 1987), HSH Philippa Maria Theresia Prinzessin von Hanau Gräfin von Schaumburg (born Starnberg, January 15, 1989) and HSH Thaddäus Carl Heinrich Prinz von Hanau Graf von Schaumburg (born Starnberg, June 16, 1995).
[edit] Filmography
- Arzt ohne Gewissen (1959) .... Harriet Owen
- Flood Tide (1958) .... Anne Gordon
- Rot ist die Liebe (1957) .... Rosemarie
- Istanbul (1957) .... Stephanie Bauer/Karen Fielding
- The Dark Wave (1956) .... Herself
- Never Say Goodbye (1956) .... Lisa Gosting (also performer: "For the First Time")
- Oasis (1955) .... Karine Salstroem
- The Divided Heart (1954) .... Inga
- Maxie (1954) .... Nora, seine Frau
- Schule für Eheglück (1954) .... Regine
- Haus des Lebens (1952) .... Dr. Elisabeth Keller
- Abenteuer in Wien (1952) .... Karin Manelli
- Schwarze Augen (1951) .... Helene Samboni
- Das Ewige Spiel (1951) .... Marie Donatus
- Unvergängliches Licht (1951) .... Michèle Printemps
- Die Tödlichen Träume (1951) .... Angelika/Inez/Lisette/Maria
- Die Lüge (1950) .... Ellen, seine Tochter
- The Big Lift (1950) .... Frederica Burkhardt (also performer: "Vielleicht" and "In einem kleinen Café in Hernals")
- 0 Uhr 15, Zimmer 9 (1950) ....
- Absender unbekannt (1950) .... Dr. Elisabeth Markert
- Martina (1949) .... Irene
- Anonyme Briefe (1949) .... Cornelia
