Personal Info
Birth date
1906-03-01 (119 Years)
Day of death
1997-08-25
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Hamburg, Germany
Also known as
Камилла Шпира
Камилла Спира
Camilla Spira
Biography
Camilla Spira was a German actress. She was the daughter of actor Fritz Spira.
Filmography
Der Kommissar
7.5
Overview:
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
9
Overview:
Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating examples of "Film history on film" ever produced. Straschek devoted years to researching the topic and accumulating both film and non-film materials. Apart from some radio features and articles, however, this 290-minute TV programme remains the only published trace of Straschek's lifelong work on the emigration of film personnel. He had intended to publish a three-volume book, encompassing all available data about 3,000 emigrants originating from the centre and peripheries of film production, but the book never materialised.The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
7.653
Overview:
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.Roses for the Prosecutor
6.875
Overview:
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.Emil and the Detectives
7.6
Overview:
Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.Wenn ich sonntags in mein Kino geh'...
NYR
Overview:
A documentary about the 75th birhday of the UFA film studios directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.The Devil’s General
6.8
Overview:
The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief period of time. Still remaining outspoken, Harras realizes the horrific dimensions of this hopeless and injust war waged by Germany.Girls in Gingham
6.5
Overview:
A moving saga focusing on the women in a family that spans three generations and almost 70 years of German history, from the Wilhelmine period through the end of WWII. This film shows that it takes a combination of hard work, political consciousness and family work in tandem to face the tragedies of war, economic hardship and death.Epilogue
5.8
Overview:
The reporter Peter Zabel stumbles upon the sinking of the luxury yacht Orplid in Hamburg on August 14, 1949. The ship went down with a wedding party run by artists on a pleasure trip from Hamburg to Scotland . In spite of good weather and no technical problems. Out of personal curiosity, Zabel starts researching. Could the sinking of Orplid have political reasons? A German political thriller and film noir inspired by Carol Reed's "The Third Man".The Merry Wives of Windsor
7
Overview:
For the corpulent nobleman Sir John Falstaff, the inn in the small English town of Windsor is the best of all places. Here he can indulge in excessive dining and intemperate drinking, as well as swagger and boast about his adventures, particularly those of an amorous nature. At present, he has designs on the two young women, Mistress Reich and Fluth, who, in turn, lead the paunchy protagonist mightily by the nose.Sky Without Stars
6.9
Overview:
Anna is a factory worker in East Germany. Her five-year-old son Jochen lives with his grandparents in the West and Anna wants him to live with her, so she abducts him. Along the way she meets Carl who helps her with her son and they fall in love.Vertauschtes Leben
4.5
Overview:
The mistake of two infants on a night of bombing during World War II plunged their families into grief and conflict 18 years later, when both girls were marriageable.Dawn
5.2
Overview:
Released three days after Adolf Hitler became Reichskanzler, it was the first film to have its screening in Nazi Germany. It became a symbol of the new times touted by the Nazi regime. The title (literally "morning-red") is the German term for the reddish coloring of the east sky about a half hour before the sunrise. On patrol Captain Liers and his submarine crew sink an important British ship, but while returning to harbour, they're lured into a trap by a British vessel disguised as a neutral Danish one. They sink it after it attacks them without warning, but while they prepare to rescue survivors, a British destroyer sinks the sub. On the sea bed 60 feet down, with all but the bridge flooded, the 10 surviving crew have only 8 rescue devices. Liers orders the crew to use them, but they disobey - either all escape or nobody does.Affäre Blum
NYR
Overview:
The action takes place in a central German town in the 1920s. A Jewish factory owner is accused of murdering his accountant. The German nationalist investigating judge, who is determined to have a Jewish perpetrator, still sees Blum as the perpetrator even when evidence of the actual murderer, a former Freikorp fighter, is found. The Social Democratic court president from Berlin sends a criminal investigator to tear apart the judge's chain of evidence.The Heath Is Green
6
Overview:
A forest ranger, after spending years tracking down a poacher, is taken aback to learn the man is the father of his beloved.Brennende Grenze
5
Overview:
The story of Brennende Grenze (= Burning Border) starts after the end of WWI. Polish franctireurs invade the German bordering regions which are to be given to Poland as agreed on in the post-war peace treaties. Luise von Willkühnen's manor is invaded by Ladislaus von Zeremski, his lover Nadja and their gang. They treaten the inhabitants until Luise's son kills Zeremski.The Judas of Tyrol
5
Overview:
In the year 1810, the Tyrol is suffering under French occupation. A servant, who believes himself oppressed and disenfranchised by the peasants, dreams of being allowed to play Christ in the yearly Passion Play. Instead, he is forced to play Judas and soon the lines of reality blur: he betrays the location of Andreas Hofer, hidden by the farmers, breaks under the weight of his guilt and suffers Judas' fate.Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter
5
Overview:
In the middle of the 19th century, almost one in three women who gave birth died of puerperal fever. The Hungarian doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis also observed these terrible occurrences in his clinic in Vienna. He came to the conclusion that it was primarily the unhygienic conditions in the clinic itself that led to this disease, as his colleagues were constantly shuttling back and forth between the anatomy department and the delivery room. He tries to convince the doctors of the absolute necessity of thorough disinfection by washing their hands with chlorinated lime. He meets with fierce resistance from his colleagues until he himself sets up an exemplary clinic in Budapest.Acting
2001Das Jahrhundert des Kabaretts (1 Episode) as Self (archive Footage)
1992Wenn ich sonntags in mein Kino geh'... as Self
1983Gestern bei Müllers (6 Episodes) as Oma
1977Kante as Ingrid Brosamer
1977Heinrich Zille as Unknown
1977Ein Tisch zu viert as Lotte
1977Erben ist menschlich as Witwe Lotte
1975Film Emigration from Nazi Germany (5 Episodes) as Self
1974Die Powenzbande (5 Episodes) as Frau Quiebus
1974Motiv Liebe (1 Episode) as Clarissa
1972Finito l'amor as Agnes
1969Der Kommissar (1 Episode) as Frau Hausmann
1967Kabale und Liebe as Millerin
1967Großer Mann, was nun? (8 Episodes) as Marie König
1966Socialaristokraten as Frau Fiebig
1965Romulus der Große as Julia
1963Piccadilly Zero Hour 12 as Pamela
1963Mamselle Nitouche as Vorsteherin Mutter Therese
1963Mauern as Trude Nast
1963Curd Jürgens erzählt... (1 Episode) as Unknown
1962Affäre Blum as Frieda Bremer
1961Vertauschtes Leben as Luise Lindner
1959Der Czardas-König as Frau Kálmán
1959Roses for the Prosecutor as Hildegard Schramm
1959Freddy, die Gitarre und das Meer as Mutter Ossenkamp
1958Vater, Mutter und neun Kinder as Martha Schiller
1958Nachtschwester Ingeborg as Frau Roeder
1957Das Herz von St. Pauli as Trudchen Meyer
1957Der tolle Bomberg as Frau Kommerzienrat Mühlberg
1957Made in Germany – Ein Leben für Zeiss as Ottilie Zeiss
1956Fuhrmann Henschel as Mrs. Wermelskirch
1956Liebe as Frau Ballard
1955Two Blue Eyes as Frau Friedrich
1955Der letzte Mann as Sabine Hoevelmann
1955Sky Without Stars as Elsbeth Friese
1955The Devil’s General as Kammersängerin Olivia Geiss
1954Roman eines Frauenarztes as Oberschwester Lindwedel
1954Emil and the Detectives as Emils Tante
1952The Grapes Are Ripe as Annemarie
1952Pension Schöller as Ulrike
1952Drei Tage Angst as Anna Espenlaub, seine Frau
1950The Merry Wives of Windsor as Frau Gretchen Reich (Mistress Page)
1950Epilogue as Pensionswirtin
1950Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter as Josepha Hochleitner
1949Girls in Gingham as Guste
1935Hoheit tanzt Walzer as Gast im Praterlokal
1933The Judas of Tyrol as Walpurga
1933Die Nacht im Forsthaus as Maria, seine Frau
1933The Testament of Dr. Mabuse as Juwelen-Anna
1933Sprung in den Abgrund as Anni, Kellnerin
1933Dawn as Grete Jaul
1932Haunted People as Unknown
1932The Heath Is Green as Grete
1932Schill's eleven officers as Magd Anna
1932Skandal in der Parkstraße as Julischka
1932The handsomest man in the state as Julischka
1931My Leopold as Klara, seine Tochter
1931The Carnival Fairy as Lori
1930The funny musicians as Anna Müller
1930The Young Love as Unknown
1927An der Weser as Unknown
1927Brennende Grenze as Marlene - Wirtschafterin
1926Wrath of the Seas as Unknown
1926Wie einst im Mai as Minchen Lemke
1926Die dritte Eskadron as Ilonka
1926Der Stolz der Kompagnie as Minna
1925Freies Volk as Unknown
1925Im Krug zum grünen Kranze as Marie
1924In den Krallen der Schuld as Matia
1924Mutter und Sohn as Unknown