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Ursula Thiess | |
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Thiess with husband Robert Taylor in 1960 | |
Born | Ursula Schmidt May 15, 1924 Hamburg, Germany |
Died | June 19, 2010 Burbank, California, U.S. | (aged 86)
Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale |
Years active | 1949–1972 |
Spouse(s) | Georg Otto Thiess (m. 19??; div. 1947) Marshall Schacker
(m. 1973; died 1986) |
Children | 4 |
Ursula Thiess (May 15, 1924 – June 19, 2010) was a German film actress who had a brief Hollywood career in the 1950s.
Thiess began her career on the stage in her native Germany and by dubbing female voices in American films as Ursula Schmidt. After she married Georg Otto Thiess, she became Ursula Thiess and was featured in many German magazines, including several cover photos, as well as the cover of Life magazine, 1954, as an up-and-coming model, and she was dubbed the "most beautiful woman in the world." She left postwar Germany at the urging of Howard Hughes and signed with RKO. She co-starred with Robert Stack in The Iron Glove (1952), Rock Hudson in Bengal Brigade (1954), Glenn Ford in The Americano (1955), and Robert Mitchum in Bandido (1956).