German actress (1925–2014)

Gerlind Cornell Borchers (16 March 1925 – 12 May 2014) was a German actress and singer, active in the late 1940s and 1950s. She is best remembered for her roles opposite Montgomery Clift in The Big Lift (1950) and Errol Flynn and Nat King Cole in Istanbul (1957). She was said to resemble Ingrid Bergman in mid-1950s reviews.

Contents

• 1 Biography
• 2 Filmography
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Biography

Borchers was born in Šilutė (German: Heydekrug), Klaipėda Region (German: Memelland), Lithuania in a German either Prussian Lithuanian or Memellander family. She appeared on the cover of East German magazine Neue Film Welt of 1949, Volume 3, Issue 4. She won a BAFTA Film Award in the category of Best Foreign Actress in 1955 for the movie The Divided Heart (1954). She retired from acting to raise her children.

She was married twice, first to Bruce Cunningham and then to Dr. Anton Schelkopf, a psychologist, physician and film producer, whom she first met when she starred in his films School for Marriage (1954) and Rot ist die Liebe (1957), by whom she had one daughter, Julia Borchers-Schelkopf, born in Munich, on 15 October 1962. She afterwards lived in Bavaria, Germany and died there in 2014.

Filmography

• Anonymous Letters (1949) .... Cornelia
• Martina (1949) .... Irene
• Unknown Sender (1950) .... Dr. Elisabeth Markert
• 0 Uhr 15 Zimmer 9: (1950) .... Maria Mertens
• The Big Lift (1950) .... Frederica Burkhardt (also performer: "Vielleicht" and "In einem kleinen Café in Hernals")
• The Lie (1950) .... Ellen
• Die Tödlichen Träume (1951) .... Angelika / Inez / Lisette / Maria
• Immortal Light (1951) .... Michèle Printemps
• Das Ewige Spiel (1951) .... Marie Campenhausen
• Dark Eyes (1951) .... Helene Samboni
• Adventure in Vienna (1952) .... Karin Manelli
• House of Life (1952) .... Dr. Elisabeth Keller
• School for Marriage (1954) .... Regine
• Maxie (1954) .... Nora
• The Divided Heart (1954) .... Inga
• Oasis (1955) .... Karine Salstroem
• The Dark Wave (1956) .... Herself
• Never Say Goodbye (1956) .... Lisa Gosting (also performer: "For the First Time")
• Rot ist die Liebe (1957) .... Rosemarie
• Istanbul (1957) .... Stephanie Bauer / Karen Fielding
• Flood Tide (1958) .... Anne Gordon
• Arzt ohne Gewissen (1959) .... Harriet Owen (final film role)

References

External links

• Cornell Borchers at IMDb
• Virtual History

1968–present

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• Maggie Smith (1969)
• Katharine Ross (1970)
• Glenda Jackson (1971)
• Liza Minnelli (1972)
• Stéphane Audran (1973)
• Joanne Woodward (1974)
• Ellen Burstyn (1975)
• Louise Fletcher (1976)
• Diane Keaton (1977)
• Jane Fonda (1978)
• Jane Fonda (1979)
• Judy Davis (1980)
• Meryl Streep (1981)
• Katharine Hepburn (1982)
• Julie Walters (1983)
• Maggie Smith (1984)
• Peggy Ashcroft (1985)
• Maggie Smith (1986)
• Anne Bancroft (1987)
• Maggie Smith (1988)
• Pauline Collins (1989)
• Jessica Tandy (1990)
• Jodie Foster (1991)
• Emma Thompson (1992)
• Holly Hunter (1993)
• Susan Sarandon (1994)
• Emma Thompson (1995)
• Brenda Blethyn (1996)
• Judi Dench (1997)
• Cate Blanchett (1998)
• Annette Bening (1999)
• Julia Roberts (2000)
• Judi Dench (2001)
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• Emmanuelle Riva (2012)
• Cate Blanchett (2013)
• Julianne Moore (2014)
• Brie Larson (2015)
• Emma Stone (2016)
• Frances McDormand (2017)
• Olivia Colman (2018)
• Renée Zellweger (2019)
• Frances McDormand (2020)
• Joanna Scanlan (2021)