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Lilia Skala is a Actor Autrichienne born on 28 november 1896 at Vienna (Austria)

Lilia Skala

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Birth name Lilia Sofer
Nationality Austria
Birth 28 november 1896 at Vienna (Austria)
Death 18 december 1994 (at 98 years) at Long Island (USA)

Lilia Skala (November 28, 1896 – December 18, 1994) was an Austrian-American actress.

Biography

Skala was born Lilia Sofer in Vienna, Austria. Her mother, Katharina Skala, was Catholic, and her father, Julius Sofer, was Jewish and worked as a manufacturers representative for the Waldes Koh-i-noor Company. Skala was one of the first women to graduate in architecture and engineering from the University of Dresden, before practicing architecture professionally in Vienna.

In the late 1930s, she was forced to flee her Nazi-occupied homeland with her husband, Louis Erich Skala, and their two young sons. (Lilia and Erich adopted the non-Jewish sounding surname of Lilia's mother.) Skala and her husband managed to escape (at different times) from Austria and eventually settled in the United States.

Skala was a Christian Scientist. She was introduced to the religion in Vienna in the 1920s.

Best films

Flashdance (1983)
(Actress)
Lilies of the Field (1963)
(Actress)
Charly (1968)
(Actress)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Lilia Skala (16 films)

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Actress

Men Of Respect, 1h53
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Gangster films, Films about royalty
Actors John Turturro, Rod Steiger, Lilia Skala, Michael Badalucco, Nicholas Turturro, Vincent Pastore
Roles Lucia
Rating54% 2.749512.749512.749512.749512.74951
Mike Battaglia, a powerful lieutenant in the D’Amico crime family, executes a large-scale hit on the family's enemies, earning a promotion to caporegime and the undying respect of his boss, godfather Charlie D'Amico. Despite the Don's generosity, however, Battaglia secretly resents D'Amico for passing him over as his successor.
House of Games, 1h42
Directed by David Mamet
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Lindsay Crouse, Joe Mantegna, Lilia Skala, Ricky Jay, Mike Nussbaum, J. T. Walsh
Roles Dr. Maria Littauer
Rating71% 3.597423.597423.597423.597423.59742
Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse) is a psychiatrist who has achieved success with her recently published book, but who feels unfulfilled. During a session one day, Billy Hahn (Steven Goldstein), a patient, informs her that his life is in danger because he owes money to a criminal figure named Mike (Joe Mantegna) and brandishes a gun, threatening to kill himself. Margaret persuades him to surrender the chrome weapon to her and promises that she will help.
Flashdance
Flashdance (1983)
, 1h35
Directed by Adrian Lyne
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson, Kyle T. Heffner, Malcolm Danare
Roles Hanna Long
Rating62% 3.1033253.1033253.1033253.1033253.103325
Alexandra "Alex" Owens (Jennifer Beals) is an eighteen-year-old welder at a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who lives with her dog Grunt in a converted warehouse. Although she aspires to become a professional dancer, she has no formal education, and works as an exotic dancer by night at Mawby's, a neighborhood bar and grill which hosts a nightly cabaret.
Testament
Testament (1983)
, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Action
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Jane Alexander, William Devane, Ross Harris, Roxana Zal, Lukas Haas, Leon Ames
Roles Fania
Rating68% 3.4451353.4451353.4451353.4451353.445135
The Wetherly family—husband Tom (William Devane), wife Carol (Jane Alexander), and children Brad (Ross Harris), Mary Liz (Roxana Zal), and Scottie (Lukas Haas) -- live in the fictional suburb of Hamelin, California, within a 90-minute drive of San Francisco, where Tom works.
Heartland
Heartland (1979)
, 1h36
Directed by Richard Pearce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Conchata Ferrell, Rip Torn, Lilia Skala, Barry Primus, Amy Wright, Jerry Hardin
Roles Mrs. Landauer
Rating72% 3.638193.638193.638193.638193.63819
En 1910, dans la petite ville de Burnt Fork au Wyoming, arrive par le train une veuve, embauchée comme gouvernante chez un petit éleveur local. Elle est accompagnée de sa fille de 7 ans. Elle ne tarde pas à envisager de s'installer dans une cabane proche de la maison de son employeur mais doit y renoncer à la suite d'un hiver particulièrement rude...
Roseland
Roseland (1977)
, 1h44
Directed by James Ivory
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Teresa Wright, Geraldine Chaplin, Lou Jacobi, Conrad Janis, Joan Copeland, Christopher Walken
Roles Rosa
Rating60% 3.0000253.0000253.0000253.0000253.000025
At Roseland, an older lady, May (Wright), with a light step, looks for the memory of her husband in the ballroom's mirrors. Stan (Jacobi), a cheerful older man steers May to brandy alexanders and away from her past.
Deadly Hero, 1h44
Directed by Ivan Nagy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Don Murray, James Earl Jones, Treat Williams, Lilia Skala, Conchata Ferrell, Danny DeVito
Roles Edna Broderick
Rating57% 2.8599752.8599752.8599752.8599752.859975
Officer Lacy (played by Don Murray) is an 18-year veteran of the New York City Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tendencies and trigger-happy behavior. Responding to a call on Manhattan's West Side, he finds a young musician named Sally (Diahn Williams) has been abducted by a mugger named Rabbit (James Earl Jones). Rabbit has Sally at knifepoint in a hostage standoff but is persuaded to release her and surrender by Officer Lacy, who kills the unarmed Rabbit anyway. A grateful Sally is convinced by Lacy to lie to detectives to make Lacy seem like a hero. She later changes her mind and tells the truth about the shooting. This drives Lacy to try to silence Sally with escalating threats and violence before his career is ruined and he's tried for Rabbit's murder.
Charly
Charly (1968)
, 1h43
Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films based on science fiction novels, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Leon Janney, Lilia Skala, Dick Van Patten, Ruth White
Roles Dr. Anna Straus
Rating68% 3.4465353.4465353.4465353.4465353.446535
Charly Gordon (Cliff Robertson), an intellectually disabled man with a strong desire to make himself smarter, has been attending night school for two years where he has been taught by Alice Kinnian (Claire Bloom) to read and write. However, his spelling remains poor and he is even unable to spell his own name.
Caprice
Caprice (1967)
, 1h38
Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Spy, Crime, Romance
Themes Spy films, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Doris Day, Richard Harris, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen, Edward Mulhare, Lilia Skala
Roles Madame Piasco
Rating55% 2.7566652.7566652.7566652.7566652.756665
In the Swiss Alps, a skier shoots and kills another skier down a mountain slope. Cut to a woman picking up a newspaper in Paris, the headline story telling of yet another Interpol agent killed in Switzerland.
Ship of Fools, 2h29
Directed by Stanley Kramer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, Oskar Werner, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Michael Dunn
Roles Frau Hutten
Rating70% 3.545353.545353.545353.545353.54535
The characters board a German ocean liner in Veracruz, Mexico, for a voyage to Bremerhaven, Germany, along with 600 displaced workers in steerage, being deported from Cuba back to Spain, and a not-so-exotic band of entertainers, for whom the voyage is just a job. Some are happy to be bound for a rising Nazi Germany, some are apprehensive, while others appear oblivious to its potential dangers.
Lilies of the Field, 1h34
Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Dan Frazer, Jester Hairston, Stanley Adams, Bobby Driscoll
Roles Mother Maria
Rating74% 3.747383.747383.747383.747383.74738
Homer Smith (Sidney Poitier) is an itinerant handyman/jack-of-all-trades who stops at a farm in the Arizona desert to obtain some water for his car. There he sees several women working on a fence, very ineptly. The women, who speak very little English, introduce themselves as German, Austrian and Hungarian nuns. The mother superior, the leader of the nuns, persuades him to do a small roofing repair. He stays overnight, assuming that he will be paid in the morning. Next day, Smith tries to persuade the mother superior to pay him by quoting Luke 10:7, "The laborer is worthy of his hire." Mother Maria Marthe (Lilia Skala, called "Mother Maria"), responds by asking him to read another Bible verse from the Sermon on the Mount: "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Call Me Madam, 1h54
Directed by Walter Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Monde imaginaire, Théâtre, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders, Helmut Dantine, Billy De Wolfe
Roles Grand Duchess Sophie
Rating66% 3.344223.344223.344223.344223.34422
A wealthy Washington, D.C., socialite, Sally Adams, has political connections and is appointed U.S. ambassador to the tiny country of Lichtenburg, even though nothing in her background qualifies her for the job. A young journalist, Kenneth Gibson, persuades her to let him tag along as her press attache.