Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1938-09-23
Day of Death
2004-12-03
Place of Birth
Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria
Maria Perschy
Biography
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 in America eventually declined and by the late 1970s her only US appearances were brief roles in TV shows such as Hawaii Five-O and General Hospital. While shooting in Spain in 1971, Perschy suffered a burn injury from an accident that required several operations before she could resume her career. Perschy returned to her native Austria in 1985 and continued to perform in a series of plays and TV series. On 3 December 2004, Austrian state broadcaster ORF reported that Maria Perschy had died of cancer in Vienna. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maria Perschy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography (62)
Rosamunde Pilcher: Melodie der Herzen
1998Mörderisches Erbe - Tausch mit einer Toten
1998
Die Nacht der Nächte
1997
Liebling, ich muß auf Geschäftsreise
1995Die drei Dorfheiligen
1993
Harry and Harriet
1990Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community
1988
Vultures
1983
The Standard
1977
Fox Hunt
1976
The People Who Own the Dark
1976
El límite del amor
1976
De profesión: polígamo
1975
The Adolescents
1975
