Lea Lander (born in 1936 as Lea Krüger) is a former German
film actress
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...
who worked mainly in
Italian cinema
The cinema of Italy (, ) comprises the films made within Italy or by List of Italian film directors, Italian directors. Since its beginning, Italian cinema has influenced film movements worldwide. Italy is one of the birthplaces of art cinema and ...
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[Curti p.115] She is a cousin of the actor
Hardy Krüger
Hardy Krüger (; born Eberhard August Franz Ewald Krüger; 12 April 1928 – 19 January 2022) was a German actor and author who appeared in more than 60 films from 1944 onwards. After becoming a film star in Germany in the 1950s, Krüger increas ...
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Biography
Lea Krüger had a first small role as a teacher in Wolfgang Glück's What Not To Talk About - Gynecologist Dr. Brand intervenes (1958). This was followed by small parts in Don't leave me alone on Sunday (1959) and in Italian films (The Tiger of Sardis, Bloody Silk). From then on she called herself Lea Lander. In Federico Fellini's Julia and the Ghosts, she appeared as a party guest unnamed. She was first noticed in Fernando Di Leo's Giallo Amarsi paint, in which she played a call girl alongside Gianni Macchia and Nieves Navarro. In Pasquale Festa Campaniles adult comedy Why Do You Always Walk Around Naked? she played the wife of the president (Gastone Moschin) and in Le vergine di Bali the fiancée of
George Ardisson
Giorgio Ardisson, best known as George Ardisson (31 December 1931 – 11 December 2014), was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Ardisson debuted in a minor role in Mauro Bolognini's 1959 film '' Arrangiatevi!''. After several ...
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In the 1970s she played mainly in Italian Poliziotteschi and Gialli such as Der Mondscheinkiller. In her most famous films she was murdered by the film heroes at the end: in Mario Bava's Wild Dogs she was tortured by Mr. 32 George Eastman and then shot by his friend Bisturi (Don Backy) in the end. In Die eiskalten Killer (1977) she is Gabriele Ferzetti's little gangster lover, who in the end is shot by the hero Marc Porel. As a sadistic SS supervisor and torturer Dr. Erika Lessing in the trash exploitation film Desert Foxes Know No Mercy (1978) she also met a gruesome end after the counterattack of her American prisoners. In 1978 her active film career also ended, with the exception of a brief comeback in 1992 as superior in Il giorno del porco.
Selected filmography
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Goliath and the Rebel Slave
''Goliath and the Rebel Slave'' (), also known as ''The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules'', is a 1963 Eastmancolor adventure peplum film directed by Mario Caiano.
Plot
Cast
* Gordon Scott as Goliath
* Ombretta Colli as Princess Cor ...
'' (1963)
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Blood and Black Lace
''Blood and Black Lace'' () is a 1964 '' giallo'' film directed by Mario Bava and starring Eva Bartok and Cameron Mitchell. The story concerns the brutal murders of a Roman fashion house's models, committed by a masked killer in a desperate ...
'' (1964)
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Juliet of the Spirits
''Juliet of the Spirits'' () is a 1965 fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu, Valentina Cortese, and Valeska Gert. The film is about the visions, memories, and mysticism ...
'' (1965)
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A Wrong Way to Love'' (1969)
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Where Are You Going All Naked?'' (1969)
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The Virgin of Bali'' (1972)
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The Antichrist'' (1974)
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Rabid Dogs
''Rabid Dogs'' () is an Italian thriller noir film directed by Mario Bava, starring Riccardo Cucciolla, Don Backy, Lea Lander, Maurice Poli, George Eastman and Erika Dario. Taking place largely in real time, the film follows a trio of pa ...
'' (1974)
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Four Billion in Four Minutes'' (1976)
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Zanna Bianca e il grande Kid'' (1977)
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Porci con la P 38'' (1979)
References
Bibliography
* Roberto Curti. ''Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980''. McFarland, 2013.
External links
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1936 births
Living people
German film actresses
German emigrants to Italy
Actresses from Berlin
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