Uta Levka (born 26 May 1942) is a former German

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and

television 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. ...

active during the 1960s and early 1970s. She was discovered by the actress

Maria Schell Maria Margarethe Anna Schell (15 January 1926 – 26 April 2005) was an Austrian-Swiss actress. She was one of the leading stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1954, she was awarded the Cannes Best Actress Award for her performance ...

while working at the

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and appeared in a succession of glamorous roles. She appeared in three of the popular

Edgar Wallace Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was a British writer of crime and adventure fiction. Born into poverty as an illegitimate London child, Wallace left school at the age of 12. He joined the army at age 21 and was ...

adaptations of

Rialto Film Rialto Film is a German motion-picture production company headquartered in Berlin. It is named after the Rialto in Venice, and used as its production logo an image of a gondola in front of the Rialto Bridge. History The original Danish Rialto F ...

. She played the lead in the 1967 film '' Carmen, Baby''.

Selected filmography

* ''

The Sinister Monk ''The Sinister Monk'' () is a 1965 West German thriller film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Karin Dor, Harald Leipnitz and Siegfried Lowitz. It is based on the 1927 play ''The Terror'' by Edgar Wallace and was part of a very successful ...

'' (1965) * '' The Hunchback of Soho'' (1966) * '' Black Market of Love'' (1966) * '' The Alley Cats'' (1966) * '' Carmen, Baby'' (1967) * '' Operation St. Peter's'' (1967) * ''

The Hound of Blackwood Castle ''The Hound of Blackwood Castle'' (German: ''Der Hund von Blackwood Castle'') is a 1968 West German crime film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Heinz Drache, Karin Baal and Horst Tappert.Bergfelder p.153 Based on a story by Edgar Wallace, i ...

'' (1968) * ' (1968) * '' De Sade'' (1969) * '' The Oblong Box'' (1969) * '' Scream and Scream Again'' (1970)

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* 1942 births Living people People from Cottbus Actors from the Province of Brandenburg German film actresses 20th-century German actresses Actresses from Brandenburg {{Germany-screen-actor-stub