Ursula Thiess
Actor, Film actor
1924 – 2010
Who was Ursula Thiess?
Ursula Thiess was a German film actress who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s
Thiess began her career on the stage in her native Germany and by dubbing female voices in American films as Ursula Schmidt. After she married Georg Otto Thiess, she became Ursula Thiess and was featured in many German magazines, including several cover photos, as well as the cover of Life magazine, 1954, as an upcoming model, and she was dubbed the "most beautiful woman in the world." She left postwar Germany at the urging of Howard Hughes and signed up with RKO. She co-starred with Robert Stack in The Iron Glove, Rock Hudson in Bengal Brigade, Glenn Ford in The Americano, and Robert Mitchum in Bandido.
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- Born
- May 15, 1924
Hamburg - Also known as
- Ursula Schmidt
- Ursula Thieß
- Parents
- Spouses
- Robert Taylor
(1954/05/23 - 1969/06/08) - Georg Otto Thiess
(1942 - 1947) - Marshall Schacker
(1973 - 1986)
- Robert Taylor
- Children
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 19, 2010
Burbank
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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