Maria Perschy

Acting

Maria Perschy

Born — Died

1938-09-23 — 2004-12-03

Place of birth

Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria

Known for

Acting

Credits

71 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Maria Perschy (September 23, 1938 – December 3, 2004) was an Austrian actress. Perschy was born in Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria and moved to Vienna at the age of 17 to study acting. After completing her education, she moved to Germany for more training, leading to a movie career. Her first major success came with Nasser Asphalt where she played together with Horst Buchholz. Her acting career would eventually take her — by way of France, Italy, and Great Britain — to Hollywood. Perschy played in a number of American films, her most notable roles being in the 1962 biopic Freud and the 1964 Rock Hudson comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?. Perschy's career i…

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 2 titles

1970s · 17 titles

Hunchback of the Morgue poster
6.0

A hunchback working in a morgue falls in love with a sick woman. He goes berserk when she dies and seeks help from a scientist to bring her back from the dead.

Hunchback of the Morgue

1973

Murders in the Rue Morgue poster
5.2

In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1971

Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll poster
5.8

An ex-convict, troubled by dreams that he strangles women, is hired as the caretaker on an estate owned by three very strange sisters. Soon after his arrival, a serial killer begins slaughtering blonde, blue-eyed women - and leaving their eyeballs in a bowl of water.

Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll

1974

The People Who Own the Dark poster
4.9

A group of rich businessmen and military officers who are partying in an old castle are spared when a nuclear war ravages the earth. When they venture out into the nearest town to search for food and supplies, they find most of the residents blinded, and soon they discover the existence of a sinister group called The People Who Own The Dark.

The People Who Own the Dark

1976

The Ghost Galleon poster
4.9

After a pair of models go missing from a boat, a rescue party discover an empty galleon carrying the coffins of the long dead Knights Templar. The rescue party board the galleon and then discover their own boat has vanished. The survivors struggle to fight off the spectral knights with what little knowledge they have of them.

The Ghost Galleon

1974

Say it with Flowers poster
5.7

The action begins in black and white, like a memory. Klaus is a Nazi military who has just failed an attempt on Hitler. Desperate, Klaus shoots and kills his children and then shoots at his pregnant wife and leaves her badly injured. Finally, attempts suicide, but at the last moment does not have the courage to pull the trigger, and flees on a motorcycle, having an accident ... The action continues in France. Jean-Claude is a handsome young man self-conscious about a malformation in his face. Jean-Claude lives with his parents, Jacques Bergé, an amnesiac man, self-enclosed and obsessed with Egyptian art, and Concepcion, a woman also closed in herself and obsessed with flowers from her garden, and apparently , suffering from paranoia.

Say it with Flowers

1974

Exorcismo poster
4.8

A young woman participates (unknowingly) in a satanic ceremony and gets possessed by the spirit of her late father.

Exorcismo

1975

The Standard poster
4.2

During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, simply try to survive by any means possible.

The Standard

1977

The Specter of Terror poster
4.6

Maria Preston, Iberia stewardess, lives with her ​​friend and companion Elena O'Hara. She finds out that is followed by a mysterious character. He is Charly, an airport employee, U.S. Vietnam veteran, unhinged and with sexual disorders due to the infidelity of his wife.

The Specter of Terror

1973

Los fríos senderos del crimen poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Los fríos senderos del crimen

1974

The Adolescents poster
5.7

A shy girl named Ana is sent to an English boarding school. After a period of adjustment, she travels to London with two of her more world weary classmates and becomes the target for a trio of men who take illicit photographs of young girls to be published in 'Estimulation' Magazine.

The Adolescents

1975

El límite del amor poster
10.0

Manuela and Juan, a young couple who has been married for four years, likes to practice sexual games. As part of that games they want to include Juan's secretary, an old nun, secretly in love with Manuela.

El límite del amor

1976

The Night of Fury poster
7.0

A policeman infiltrates in a gang of forgers. He and their leader fought together in Vietnam, where he saved his life. The policeman arrives to the gang headquarters, a mansion in the Californian coast, and thinks everything is under control, until some unexpected visitors, a gang of deranged hippies, show him he is wrong.

The Night of Fury

1974

The Last Day of the War poster
5.5

The war in Europe is ending, but the American troops have to find a scientist on the run who is also chased by some surviving SS forces.

The Last Day of the War

1970

Fox Hunt poster
4.7

Ignazio is a depressed businessman after he suffers heavy losses in the financial markets. His wife Helena soon finds distraction elsewhere. Germano lives a double life. Leandro, the gamekeeper of the rich and powerful, soon uses his knowledge of the masters to dominate them - and their wives.

Fox Hunt

1976

De profesión: polígamo poster
3.7

No synopsis available yet.

De profesión: polígamo

1975

Kilma, Queen of the Jungle poster
8.0

A young girl who survives a plane crash in the jungle grows to adulthood and becomes "Kilma," a feared protector of the jungle who wields a bullwhip.

Kilma, Queen of the Jungle

1975

1960s · 27 titles

633 Squadron poster
6.2

When Norwegian resistance leader Lieutenant Erik Bergman reports the location of a German V-2 rocket fuel plant, the Royal Air Force's 633 Squadron is assigned the mission to destroy it. The plant is in a seemingly-impregnable location beneath an overhanging cliff at the end of a long, narrow fjord lined with anti-aircraft guns. The only way to destroy the plant is by collapsing the cliff on top of it.

633 Squadron

1964

Freud: The Secret Passion poster
6.5

An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.

Freud: The Secret Passion

1962

Man's Favorite Sport? poster
7.0

Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he crosses paths with Abigail Paige, a sweetly annoying girl who has just badgered his boss into signing Roger up for an annual fishing tournament.

Man's Favorite Sport?

1964

The Castle of Fu Manchu poster
3.6

The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans with his diabolical new device. Opposing him is his arch-nemesis, Interpol's very British Nayland Smith.

The Castle of Fu Manchu

1969

The Tall Women poster
7.6

Seven women are the only survivors of an Apache attack on a wagon train. They must cross the desert on foot to escape the Indians who are hunting them.

The Tall Women

1966

Five Golden Dragons poster
5.2

While travelling through Hong Kong, Bob Mitchell accidentally stumbles into the middle of criminal negotiations between a mean gang, the Five Golden Dragons and the local mobsters.

Five Golden Dragons

1967

The Password Is Courage poster
6.5

Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape. Masquerading as a wounded German soldier, he makes it as far as the medical tent, where the deceived enemy forces award him the Iron Cross. Though he is ultimately discovered, he goes on to courageously pursue his freedom with a whimsical and undying audacity.

The Password Is Courage

1962

I piaceri del sabato notte poster
3.0

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.

I piaceri del sabato notte

1960

The Mad Executioners poster
6.3

A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard's Black Museum.

The Mad Executioners

1963

Love in Rome poster
5.5

A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.

Love in Rome

1960

Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill poster
6.4

Tony and Brad investigate the murders of politicians and scientists. They soon face off against a team of super hit women with their usual flair.

Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill

1966

Operation Hong Kong poster
8.2

A suave gangster tries to get away from his boss with a suitcase full of heroin. Two pilots and lots of beautiful women get involved in the affair. Soon blood begins to flow.

Operation Hong Kong

1964

The Desperate Ones poster
8.0

In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail.

The Desperate Ones

1967

Spy Today, Die Tomorrow poster
6.4

Millionaire Baretti pays a gang to rob an atomic bomb from an American silo, and then blackmails the American Government for a huge amount of money. German secret service (BND) agent 'Dynamite' will use his fists, guns and more to try to stop them.

Spy Today, Die Tomorrow

1967

Ordered to Love poster
3.6

Revealing story about the mysterious Nazi organization "Lebensborn," which was intended to serve the SS in pursuing population policy and racial hygiene goals by systematically producing "hereditarily valuable" children. The film depicts an anti-Hitler Knight's Cross recipient with false papers who becomes a witness and victim of relevant events in a Lebensborn home, where 30 enthusiastic BDM girls and a number of SS hooligans and frontline soldiers have just moved in to "give the Führer a child."

Ordered to Love

1961

Secret of the Sphinx poster
7.0

Shot on location in Egypt, the story unfurls like an Italian Giallo as a group of people meet under strange circumstances, and one by one they are murdered. Gold is missing so you suspect a thief is trying to cover up his crime but that might be too obvious.

Secret of the Sphinx

1964

A Witch Without a Broom poster
5.3

A flirtatious sorcerous fancies a handsome human professor. Cross time antics arise when she attempts to bring the hapless professor into her alternate dimension.

A Witch Without a Broom

1967

Dr. med. Fabian - Lachen ist die beste Medizin poster
7.0

Dr. Fabian is the good soul at the University Surgical Clinic. Nicknamed "Paulchen" by his famous boss, Professor Spalke, the demigod in white brings joy to the lives of his patients with his cheerful disposition and is also tireless in his support and advice for his students. It's no wonder that women would love to get their hands on this dream man. But Dr. Fabian remains steadfast - until he meets the attractive anaesthetist Inge.

Dr. med. Fabian - Lachen ist die beste Medizin

1969

The Vengeance of Pancho Villa poster
5.8

During the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa is wounded and left his large treasure in gold back in the city of Colón. He is forced to establish an alliance with General Urbina, leader, and he asks seven of his faithful guerrillas to take back the gold that he has hidden in a farm, near the New Mexico border, and which will allow him to pay for a new army and guns.

The Vengeance of Pancho Villa

1967

No Survivors, Please poster
7.0

Aliens attempt to take over the Earth by taking over the bodies of humans at the moment of their death, and using them as tools for their invasion plans.

No Survivors, Please

1964

Melody of Hate poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Melody of Hate

1962

The Bandits of the Rio Grande poster
10.0

Three female schoolteachers head down to a small village which has a small army detail. The village is raided for by bandits and the teachers are taken along to the bandits' camp.

The Bandits of the Rio Grande

1965

Sette donne per una strage poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sette donne per una strage

1967

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Wenn beide schuldig werden

1962

No artwork available
10.0

Finally, vacation! Marianne, Franziska, and Bernhard Kleinschmidt are spending their holidays together with their friends Oliver and Petra Martens at their parents' vacation home. The young people have every reason to be in a good mood, but something is gnawing at the two young men—Oliver and Bernhard are in love.

Der Held meiner Träume

1960

Extraconiugale poster
7.0

Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.

Extraconiugale

1964

African Gold poster
7.0

The sky lights up and the desert comes alive on this desperate search for hidden millions.

African Gold

1965

1950s · 9 titles

The Moralist poster
6.4

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.

The Moralist

1959

Wet Asphalt poster
6.0

In Berlin, when the journalist Greg Bachmann is released from prison six months before the end of his sentence, there is a driver named Jupp waiting for him. Soon he learns that the famous journalist Cesar Boyd was the responsible for the shorter sentence. Cesar offers a position of his assistant to Greg; in return, Boyd would write his story about his interviews to war criminals and Greg would help him in other matters. Meanwhile Boyd welcomes the daughter of a deceased friend, Bettina, and he becomes her guardian.

Wet Asphalt

1958

Roter Mohn poster
6.2

Through a cleverly deceptive maneuver, a theater ensemble attempts to prevent the sale of its small theater to a shady profiteer. Numerous misunderstandings and mix-ups arise, culminating in a fake wedding night...

Roter Mohn

1956

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nichts als Ärger mit der Liebe

1956

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Liebe des Jahres

1959

Der schwarze Blitz poster
6.0

Michael Kirchner, nicknamed "The Black Lightning", is a passionate alpine skier. Now he must eliminate the tough opponent Herbert Tanner to be the representative of the national team.

Der schwarze Blitz

1958

Natürlich die Autofahrer poster
6.2

Eberhard Dobermann is a widower and a policeman who loves to control the roads and let people pay fines. Even with his neighbour and friend Jutta Schmalbach he has no pity. Thus he cannot understand why his daughter Karin just falls in love with a racing pilot called Walter. But it gets even worse when Eberhard wins a VW-Kaefer at the annual police party. So he has to learn to drive and thus even brings his teacher close to a heart attack.

Natürlich die Autofahrer

1959

Lady Country Doctor poster
8.0

A German village gets a new doctor, but the conservative folk have trouble accepting a female for the job.

Lady Country Doctor

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fanny

1958

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