Annette_Carell

Annette Carell

Annette Carell

American actress

Annette Karen Carell (variously Carrell; born Anneliese Erlanger; 7 January 1926 – 20 October 1967)[1][2][3][Note 1] was a German-born American actress of stage, screen, and television who lived in the United States and Britain at various stages of her career. She appeared in American, British, and German films, plays, and television series, including Beyond the Curtain, No Hiding Place, The Prisoner, The Avengers, Out of the Unknown, Our Mother's House, and Z-Cars.[5][6][7]

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Biography

Early life

Carell was born Anneliese Erlanger in Nuremberg, Bavaria, the daughter of Stephen (Stefan) Erlanger and Lilly Kromwell.[8][9][10] Her family was Jewish,[7][11][12] and left Nazi Germany for England in the late 1930s.[8][13][14] In 1942 the family emigrated from England to the United States,[12] where Carell became a naturalized American citizen on 12 February 1944 in Boston, Massachusetts.[15][1] She attended the Leland Powers School in Boston.[8]

Career

Death certificate of Annette Carell, under her married name, Annette Karen Savory.

Under the name Annette Erlanger, her first notable acting role was a supporting part in the Washington National Theatre production of Robert E. Sherwood's play The Rugged Path (1945), starring Spencer Tracy.[16] While acting in Germany in the early 1950s, she adopted the stage name Carell.[17] Her most prominent film role was probably in the German-shot Martin Luther (1953) as Luther's wife, Katherine von Bora.[6] She also had supporting roles in Darling (1965),[18] Our Mother's House (1967),[19] and The Vulture (1967).[20]

Personal life

Carell married expatriate British playwright Gerald Savory in New Jersey on 1 September 1953.[8] They returned to England from the U.S. in 1956;[21] the couple had no children.

Carell died of a barbiturate overdose at her home in London on 20 October 1967, in what was ruled a suicide.[21][3]

Filmography

Films

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Notes

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    Some sources give her year of birth as 1929.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Massachusetts, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1798–1950". National Archives at Boston. Retrieved 27 June 2018 – via Ancestry.com.
  2. [2]
    "U.S., Records of Aliens Pre-Examined in Canada, 1904–1954". National Archives. Retrieved 1 July 2018 – via Ancestry.com.
  3. [3]
    Death certificate: Annette Karen Savory. Westminster, London. Register 925, Entry 132. General Register Office, 1967.
  4. [4]
    Noble, Peter, ed. (1960). British Film and Television Yearbook 1960/61. British and American Film Press.
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    "Annette Carell". The Avengers Forever!. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
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    "Annette Carell Plays Female Lead in 'Martin Luther' Film". Perry County Times. Pennsylvania. 22 October 1953. p. 10.
  7. [7]
    "Old Acquaintances: Obituaries" (PDF). AJR Information. 22 (12). Association of Jewish Refugees: 5. December 1967.
  8. [8]
    "Annette Erlanger, Actress, Is Wed". The Montclair Times. New Jersey. 3 September 1953. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
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    "Montclair, New Jersey, City Directory, 1955". U.S. City Directories, 1822–1995. Retrieved 10 October 2019 – via Ancestry.com.
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    Hepp, Michael (2011). Listen in chronologischer Reihenfolge (in German). Munich: Walter de Gruyter. p. 419. ISBN 978-3-11-095062-5.
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    "U.S., Records of Aliens Pre-Examined in Canada, 1904–1954". National Archives – via Ancestry.com.
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    "Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895–1954". National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved 10 October 2019 – via FamilySearch.org. (registration required)
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    "UK, WWII Alien Internees, 1939–1945 (Stefan Erlanger)". The National Archives; Kew, London, England. Retrieved 10 October 2019 – via Ancestry.com.
  14. [14]
    "UK, WWII Alien Internees, 1939–1945 (Lilly Erlanger)". The National Archives; Kew, London, England. Retrieved 10 October 2019 – via Ancestry.com.
  15. [15]
    "'Martin Luther' Female Lead Coming Here for Three Days". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. 25 September 1953. p. 21 – via Newspapers.com.
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    Atlas, Ben (13 October 1945). "Out-Of-Town Openings: The Rugged Path". Billboard. p. 41.
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    "Romantik: Natürlich ohne Gage". Der Spiegel (in German). Spiegel Online. 6 September 1950.
  18. [18]
    Bourne, Stephen (2016). Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930–1971. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-4742-9134-7.
  19. [19]
    Monahan, Kaspar (10 November 1967). "Horror Movie Brings Chills to Shadyside". The Pittsburgh Press. p. 37.
  20. [20]
    Guarino, Ann (20 May 1967). "Two Mildly Suspenseful Thrillers". Daily News. New York. p. 26.
  21. [21]
    "Annette Carell". The Stage and Television Today. No. 453. 26 October 1967. p. 9. (subscription required)
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