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Lotte Lenya
Deceased

How Did Lotte Lenya Die?

Life & Death

Died aged 83
Also known asLotte LenjaGenderFemaleNationalityAustriaBorn17/10/1898Born inVienna, AustriaDied27/11/1981Died inManhattanCausecancerWikidataQ93604Buried atMount Repose CemeteryTMDb#9898

Lotte Lenya 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).

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Filmography11 titles

Importing filmography…
YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
2017Popular Voices at the BBCSeriesSelf (archive footage)119
1989The ExilesMovieSelf91
1977Semi-ToughMovieCarla Pelf79
1968The Dick Cavett ShowSeriesSelf - Guest70
1966Ten Blocks on the Camino RealMovieThe Gypsy68
1966NET PlayhouseSeries68
1965The Incredible World of James BondMovieSelf (archive footage)67
1965Mother Courage and Her Children - A chronicle from the Thirty Years' WarMovieMutter Courage67
1962The Merv Griffin ShowSeriesSelf64
1961The Roman Spring of Mrs. StoneMovieContessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales63
1931The 3 Penny OperaMovieJenny33