Lotte Lenya

Biography

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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. From Russia with Love (1963) — Rosa Klebb
2. The 3 Penny Opera (1931) — Jenny
3. Semi-Tough (1977) — Carla Pelf
4. The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) — Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
5. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest
6. The Appointment (1969) — Emma Valadier
7. The Merv Griffin Show (1962) — Self
8. No. 18: Mahagonny (1980) — Self (voice)
9. NET Playhouse (1966)
10. Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill (1961) — Self
11. The Incredible World of James Bond (1965) — Self (archive footage)
12. September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (1994) — Self
13. Lotte Lenya - Warum bin ich nicht froh? (2021) — Self (archive footage)
14. Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' War (1965) — Mutter Courage
15. George Grosz' Interregnum (1960) — Narrator
16. Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (1966) — The Gypsy
17. The Exiles (1989) — Self
18. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in America (1992)
19. Dreadful Penny Dreadful (2025)
20. Treffpunkt New York (1961) — Self
21. Popular Voices at the BBC (2017) — Self (archive footage)