Margit Saad (30 May 1929 – 7 August 2023) was a German actress who worked largely in German film and television, with occasional English language appearances.

Biography

Margit Saad was born in

Munich Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria, Germany. As of 30 November 2024, its population was 1,604,384, making it the third-largest city in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg. Munich is the largest city in Germany that is no ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

, the daughter of a Lebanese linguist father and a German-language-teaching mother from

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

. She made her screen debut in '' Eva erbt das Paradies''. In 1960 she starred in the British drama film '' The Criminal'' and followed it up with appearances in other British films and television programmes such as '' The Rebel'' (US ''Call Me Genius'', 1961) with

Tony Hancock Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor. High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series '' Hancock's Half Hour'', first broadcast on radio from 1954, ...

, '' Playback'' (1962), an entry in the ''

Edgar Wallace Mysteries The ''Edgar Wallace Mysteries'' is a British second-feature film series mainly produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated. There were 48 films in the series, which were released between 1960 and 1965. The series was screened as ''Th ...

'' series of second features, ''The Saint'' in ''The Saint Sees It Through'' (1964), and ''

The Magnificent Two ''The Magnificent Two'' (also known as ''What Happened at Campo Grande?'' and ''Campo Grande'') is a 1967 British comedy film directed by Cliff Owen and starring Morecambe and Wise. It was the third and final of their 1960s films. Plot Two B ...

'' (1967) supporting

Morecambe and Wise Eric Morecambe (John Eric Bartholomew; 14 May 1926 – 28 May 1984) and Ernie Wise (Ernest Wiseman; 27 November 1925 – 21 March 1999), known as Morecambe and Wise (and sometimes as Eric and Ernie), were an English comic double act, working ...

. Saad appeared in an early 1966 episode of the American television espionage series '' Blue Light''. It was edited together with three other episodes later in 1966 to create the American theatrical film '' I Deal in Danger'', which includes her appearance. Margit Saad died on 7 August 2023, at the age of 94.

Selected filmography

* '' Behind Monastery Walls'' (1952) * '' Southern Nights'' (1953) * '' If I Only Have Your Love'' (1953) * ''

The Gypsy Baron ''The Gypsy Baron'' () is an operetta in three acts by Johann Strauss II which premiered at the Theater an der Wien on 24 October 1885. Its German libretto by Ignaz Schnitzer is based on the unpublished 1883 story ''Saffi'' by Mór Jókai. Jokai ...

'' (1954) * '' Marriage Sanitarium'' (1955) * '' Three Girls from the Rhine'' (1955) * '' Three Birch Trees on the Heath'' (1956) * '' A Piece of Heaven'' (1957) * '' Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1958) * '' Paradise for Sailors'' (1959) * '' The Criminal'' (1960) * '' The Rebel'' (1961) * '' Playback'' (1962) * '' I Deal in Danger'' (1966) * ''

'' (1967) * '' The Last Escape'' (1970)

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* 1929 births 2023 deaths German film actresses German television actresses Actresses from Munich German people of Lebanese descent 20th-century German actresses {{Germany-screen-actor-stub