Celia Lovsky

Celia Lovsky was born on Feb 21, 1897 in Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. Celia Lovsky's big-screen debut came with Sealed Verdict directed by Lewis Allen in 1948. Celia Lovsky is known for 36 Hours directed by George Seaton, James Garner stars as Major Jefferson Pike and Eva Marie Saint as Anna Hedler. The upcoming new movie Celia Lovsky plays is Soylent Green which will be released on May 09, 1973.

The daughter of Bretislav Lvovsky, a.k.a. Emil Pick (1857-1910), a minor Czech opera composer, Lovsky was born in Vienna, where she trained at the Royal Academy of Arts and Music. She was a rising stage star in Vienna and Berlin in 1929, when she met future husband Peter Lorre. Celia accompanied the Jewish Lorre when he fled Hitler's Berlin to Vienna in 1933, then to Paris, then London where they married during the filming of L'homme qui en savait trop (1934), in which Celia had an uncredited bit as a Russian aristocrat.Although she accompanied Lorre to Hollywood, she did not act professionally while married; but, after their divorce in 1945, she became a Hollywood character actress, appearing in over 40 films between 1947-73, and some 200 television appearances between 1952 and 1974. Due to her accent, she played mostly European-born characters, often dignified or aristocratic; occasionally Hispanics, once a Native American (!), and of course, T'Pau, the ruler of the planet Vulcan on Star Trek: Amok Time (1967). She remained a close friend of her former husband until his death in 1964, aged 59. She died of natural causes in 1979, at age 82.