Biography
Lilli Palmer (born Lilli Marie Peiser; 24 May 1914 – 27 January 1986) was a German actress and writer. She won the Volpi Cup, three Deutscher Filmpreis Awards, and was nominated twice for a Golden Globe Award.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Other Side of the Wind
2018
as Zarah Valeska
Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts...

The Holcroft Covenant
1985
as Althene Holcroft
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.
Eine etwas sonderbare Dame
1982

Imaginary Friends
1982
as Ellen Pitblado
Ellen Pitblado is a widow who lives in recluse in 1930s Gloucestershire. When her scummy journalist nephew, Douglas, tries to force her to give him he...
Feine Gesellschaft – Beschränkte Haftung
1982
as Hilde
When a squatted house in Hamburg is evicted, Else, a well-known vagrant, also has to look for a new place to live. Having separated from her family at...
Kinder
1981
as Mutter
Weekend
1980
as Judith Bliss

The Boys from Brazil
1978
as Esther Lieberman
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Treffpunkt Herz
1975
as Gast

Lotte in Weimar
1975
as Lotte
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was the author of Werther, the romantic novel that was transformed into a play during Goethe's lifetime and whi...

What the Peeper Saw
1972
as Dr. Viorne
A wealthy author's second wife begins to suspect that her 12-year old stepson may have murdered his mother, who mysteriously died in a bathtub acciden...

Murders in the Rue Morgue
1971
as Mrs. Charron
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Mor...

Hauser's Memory
1970
as Anna Hauser
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. H...

Only the Cool
1970
as Helen
A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this espionage drama. Dominique is the neglected wife of a spy who tr...

The House That Screamed
1969
as Mrs. Fourneau
Southern France, 19th century. Teresa, a young girl, arrives at an isolated female boarding school that is tyrannically mastered by Mrs. Fourneau, the...
The Dance of Death
1969
as Alice
An adaptation of the play by August Strindberg.

De Sade
1969
as Mme. de Montreuil
The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.

Hard Contract
1969
as Adrianne
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for "one last score". His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and...

Nobody Runs Forever
1968
as Sheila Quentin
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But wh...

Oedipus the King
1968
as Jocasta
This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invo...

Sebastian
1968
as Elsa Shahn
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian f...

The Diary of Anne Frank
1967
as Edith Frank
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.

Jack of Diamonds
1967
as Lilli Palmer
The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemi...

Father's Trip
1966
as Isabelle Quantin, farmer's wife
Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go to Lyon to look for his daughter, now a hairdress...

Congress of Love
1966
as Fürstin Metternich
Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of Prince Metternich. All of a sudden they find themselves ...

An Affair of States
1966
as Olga Nikolaijewna
Two female members of the Soviet military are supposed to kidnap the new American secret weapon at a disarmament conference. The highlight is the duel...

God's Thunder
1965
as Marie Brassac
Veterinarian Léandre Brassac lives with his wife Marie on a remote estate. One day, he decides to shelter a young woman with no bearings.

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1965
as Dutchy
A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

Operation Crossbow
1965
as Frieda
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between Ge...

The Circular Triangle
1964
as Anna-Maria di Scorza
Business tycoon dies in plane crash. Suspected, Georg, his main partner, Alain, a young Turkish finance, and Anna Maria, the group's proxy, are all se...

And So to Bed
1963
as Schauspielerin
Twelve different episodes of erotic relationships are described as examples of modern love substitute.

Torpedo Bay
1963
as Lygia da Silva
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the neutral...

Miracle of the White Stallions
1963
as Vedena Podhajsky
In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But ...

Sex Can Be Difficult
1962
as Hilde Brenner (segment "Il serpente")
A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldie...
Frau Cheneys Ende
1962
as Frau May Cheney

Adorable Julia
1962
as Julia Lambert
A successful and married, although not quite young, stage actress falls for a young man, who is involved with a young actress who uses him to advance ...

The Counterfeit Traitor
1962
as Frau Marianne Möllendorf
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

Dark Journey
1962
as Eva Grosgeorges
In this movie based upon Julian Green's novel, we follow Paul's downfall as he is torn between his love for Angele, a local prostitute, as he finds ou...

Finden Sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält?
1962
as Constanze Calonder

The Pleasure of His Company
1961
as Katharine Dougherty
Biddeford "Pogo" Poole, an urbane charmer, has been absent for most of the life of his daughter, Jessica, but he pops up again as she prepares to marr...

Midnight Meeting
1961
as Eva Khrolic / Anne Leuven
A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?

Conspiracy of Hearts
1960
as Mother Katharine
In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what...

Frau Warrens Gewerbe
1960
as Mrs. Kitty Warren

But Not for Me
1959
as Kathryn Ward
Out of hit ideas and seemingly in the twilight of his career, Broadway producer Russ Ward decides to give up the game. But when Russ lays off his nubi...

Life Together
1958
as Odette de Starenberg
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's...

Girls in Uniform
1958
as Elisabeth von Bernburg
In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compass...

The Lovers of Montparnasse
1958
as Béatrice Hastings
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy fam...

Eine Frau, die weiß was sie will
1958
as Julia Klöhn

The Glass Tower
1957
as Katja Fleming
Katja Fleming has given up her job as an actress and married the business man Robert Fleming. But the cold that surrounds her in her modern, luxuriou...

The Night of the Storm
1957
as Marianne Eichler
Despised by her husband and son after an affair, Marianne moves in with her lover, an unsuccessful painter, until she is purified.

Between Time and Eternity
1956
as Nina Bohlen
Between Time and Eternity

Anastasia: the Czar's Last Daughter
1956
as Anna Anderson
In 1920, an unknown 24-year-old woman was fished out of Berlin's Landwehr kanal after a suicide attempt. Since she has no papers and no answers to any...

Devil in Silk
1956
as Melanie
After leaving his overbearing wife for another woman, a composer is suspected of her murder when she is found dead.

Fireworks
1954
as Iduna
The quiet life of an extended family is shaken up when a circus comes into town.

Main Street to Broadway
1953
as Self
In New York, a surly, down-on-his-heels playwright meets a country girl who's giving up trying to act and returning home. He goes with her for inspira...

The Four Poster
1952
as Abby Edwards
In turn-of-the-century New York, the marriage of John and Abby Edwards unfolds over the years.

Pictura
1951
as Narrator: Toulouse-Lautrec episode (voice)
Pictura is a documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood actors. The film attempts to give the gener...

The Long Dark Hall
1951
as Mary Groome
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.

The Twentieth Century
1949
as Mildred Plotka / Lily Garland
A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing...

Wicked City
1949
as Tania - la gitane
A Canadian sailor becomes a fugitive for love after a night with a woman in Marseille.

No Minor Vices
1948
as April Ashwell
Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that h...

My Girl Tisa
1948
as Tisa Kepes
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in th...

Body and Soul
1947
as Peg Born
Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, in...

Cloak and Dagger
1946
as Gina
Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

Beware of Pity
1946
as Baroness Edith de Kekesfalva
A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.

The Rake's Progress
1945
as Rikki Krausner
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal...

English Without Tears
1944
as Brigid Knudsen
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her L...

The Gentle Sex
1943
as Erna Debruski
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, dri...

Thunder Rock
1942
as Melanie Kurtz
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his payc...

The Door with Seven Locks
1940
as June Lansdowne
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad ...
Blind Folly
1939
as Valerie
A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.

A Girl Must Live
1939
as Clytie Devine
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

Crackerjack
1938
as Baroness Von Haltz
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero ...

Command Performance
1937
as Susan
Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Stre...

Good Morning, Boys!
1937
as Yvette
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast ...

The Great Barrier
1937
as Lou
The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Secret Agent
1936
as Lilli
After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to th...

First Offence
1936
as Jeanette
After his father sells his car, an immature playboy steals it back, and gets involved with a gang of professional car thieves. British remake of "Mauv...

Crime Unlimited
1935
as Natacha
A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.