Cast & creator
Lotte Lenya
Best known for The Merv Griffin Show, The Dick Cavett Show, NET Playhouse
Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world, she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her first husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). She also played the murderous and sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love (1963). Description above from the Wikipedia article Lotte Lenya, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Also known as: Lotte Lenja
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1931–2026 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (22)
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The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
NET Playhouse
1966
From Russia with Love
Rosa Klebb
1963Treffpunkt New York
Self
1961
Popular Voices at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
2017
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
1961
Semi-Tough
Carla Pelf
1977
The Incredible World of James Bond
Self (archive footage)
1965
I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America
1992
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
Self
1994
The 3 Penny Opera
Jenny
1931
Ten Blocks on the Camino Real
The Gypsy
1966
The Appointment
Emma Valadier
1969
Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War
Mutter Courage
1965No. 18: Mahagonny
Self (voice)
1980
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
Self
1961
The Exiles
Self
1989
One Hat is One Hat
Songs
2026
Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh?
Self (archive footage)
2021
George Grosz' Interregnum
Narrator
1960