Edith Mill
Edith Mill ( born August 16, 1925 in Vienna, † 10 November, 2007 Port Moody; actually Edith Martha Rosalia waste) was an Austrian theater and film actress.
Life
Edith Mill was born in 1925 as the daughter of the innkeeper George waste in Vienna. Trained by 1941-1943 there at the Max Reinhardt Seminar on the actress, she had been in 1934 ( with her sister ) at the German National Theatre in a fairy tale on stage. Which had its unflattering sounding surname now changed to " Mill " - - After a stopover in Graz, the thespian returned to her hometown to take on roles until 1953 at the Burgtheater. Here they occupied mainly the subject of young sentimental, was seen in pieces like Iphigenia, flirtation, Lysistrata and The Fly.
As of 1949, the dark-haired actress received with the wide -scale face also offers the film after they where directed by Hans Steinhoff Artist Gabriele Drama Dambrone should have had a cameo appearance in 1943. She was five times the partner of Curd Jürgens, played at his side, inter alia, in witches and premiums for death.
In Munich she met the 25 -year-older film producer Richard King, whom she married in 1953. The following year, she first appeared in a feature film of her brother Hans Heinz king whose favorite actress she should be in the next few years. In this titled as beloved Fräulein Doktor comedy, it was a remake of Jenny Jugo - success Our Miss Doctor of 1940. Followed the fisherman from Heiligensee The legacy of Pruggerhof (both 1955), Hot Harvest (1956 ) and finally Jägerblut ( 1957). The most interesting of these four, the home movie productions was attributable Hot harvesting, leaning on neorealist works such as Bitter Rice. Here she represented the country Auschra worker who falls in love with the son of a hop farmers. In 1959, she was clothed in a blond wig, a short but succinct appearance as Lady Doringham in the Edgar Wallace adaptation The red circle under the direction of Jürgen Roland.
In March 1957, Mill had a car accident in which her little son Richard was injured. They even caught a lip split. According to family difficulties they eventually separated from her husband, who died in 1961. With the withdrawal of her brother from the film business - he directed his last movie in 1957 - became her film career stalled and they increasingly turned to the television, played in crime series like Sherlock Holmes and steel mesh. However, their participation was limited to supporting roles often or guest appearances.
In 1968 she emigrated to Canada, where she worked as a yoga teacher and healer. Most recently, she lived in Port Moody.