Ursula Thiess

Actor, Film actor

1924 – 2010

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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
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Nationality
  • Germany
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Died
Jun 19, 2010
Burbank

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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