Annette Karen Carell (variously Carrell; born Anneliese Erlanger; 7 January 1926 – 20 October 1967)
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
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'', ''
The Prisoner'', ''
The Avengers
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'', ''
Out of the Unknown
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'', ''
Our Mother's House'', and ''
Z-Cars
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''.
Biography
Early life
Carell was born Anneliese Erlanger in
Nuremberg
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,
Bavaria
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, the daughter of Stephen (Stefan) Erlanger and Lilly Kromwell.
Her family was Jewish,
[ ] and left
Nazi Germany
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for England in the late 1930s.
In 1942 the family emigrated from England to the United States,
where Carell became a naturalized American citizen on 12 February 1944 in
Boston, Massachusetts.
She attended the
Leland Powers School in Boston.
Career
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.
While acting in Germany in the early 1950s, she adopted the stage name Carell.
Her most prominent film role was probably in the German-shot ''
Martin Luther
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'' (1953) as Luther's wife,
Katherine von Bora
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.
She also had supporting roles in ''
Darling
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Places Austral ...
'' (1965),
''
Our Mother's House'' (1967),
and ''
The Vulture'' (1967).
Personal life
Carell married expatriate British playwright
Gerald Savory in New Jersey on 1 September 1953.
They returned to England from the U.S. in 1956;
[ ] 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.
[Death certificate: Annette Karen Savory. Westminster, London. Register 925, Entry 132. General Register Office, 1967.]
Filmography
Films
Television
Notes
References
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1926 births
1967 suicides
Actors from Nuremberg
American film actresses
American television actresses
German film actresses
German television actresses
Drug-related suicides in England
Barbiturates-related deaths
Naturalized citizens of the United States
20th-century American actresses
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
20th-century German women