Celia Lovsky
Biography
Celia Lovsky was an Austrian-American actress who started on the stage in Europe and later worked in American film and television. Born in Vienna, she trained for the theater at Austria's Royal Academy of Arts and Music. She acted in Berlin in Karl Kraus's surrealist plays Dream Theater and Dream Play, appeared in a production of Shakespeare's Othello near Vienna, and helped bring Peter Lorre to the notice of Fritz Lang, leading to Lorre's role in Lang's M (1931). She later took American screen parts, often as matriarchs. Her films included Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), as the deaf-mute mother of Lon Chaney, Foxfire (1955), as Apache Princess Saba, and The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), as the widowed mother of a victim. On television she played T'Pau, the Vulcan matriarch, in Star Trek and the aged daughter of a never-aging actress in The Twilight Zone. Her final movie was Soylent Green (1973), as the Exchange Leader.
82years old at death
- Born Vienna
- Died Los Angeles
- Star sign: PiscesThe sign runs February 19 to March 20
- Also credited as Cäcilie Lvovsky
Movie Career
- Films
- 16
- Career span
- 21 years1952 to 1973
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Early training
Lovsky attended the Austrian Royal Academy of Arts and Music, where she trained in theater, dance and languages. She said she "was educated specifically for the stage".
Celia Lovsky movies on Netflix
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- Richard CarlsonThe Power (1968) and The Doomsday Flight (1966)
- Harold J. StoneThe St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) and The Garment Jungle (1957)
- Curtis CookseyDeath of a Scoundrel (1956) and Because You're Mine (1952)
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