Cornell Borchers

Cornell Borchers
Cornell Borchers and Montgomery Clift in The Big Lift
Born	Cornelia Bruch or Gerlind Borchers 16 March 1925 (1925-03-16) (age 86) Šilutė, Lithuania
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1949–1959

Cornell Borchers (born 16 March 1925) is a German actress, active in the late 1940s and 1950s, who starred along with Errol Flynn and Nat King Cole in the film Istanbul (1957).

Biography

Borchers was born Cornelia Bruch or Gerlind Borchers in Šilutė (German: Heydekrug), Klaipėda Region (German: Memelland), Lithuania in a German either Prussian Lithuanian or Memellander family. She appeared on the cover of East German magazine Neue Film Welt of 1949, Volume 3, Issue 4. She won a BAFTA Film Award it the category of Best Foreign Actress in 1955 for the movie The Divided Heart of 1954. She retired from acting to raise her child. She currently lives in Bavaria, Germany, as of July 2007.

Filmography

• Martina (1949) .... Irene
• Anonyme Briefe (1949) .... Cornelia
• Die Lüge (1950) .... Ellen, seine Tochter
• The Big Lift (1950) .... Frederica Burkhardt (also performer: "Vielleicht" and "In einem kleinen Café in Hernals")
• 0 Uhr 15, Zimmer 9 (1950) ....
• Absender unbekannt (1950) .... Dr. Elisabeth Markert
• Dark Eyes (Schwarze Augen) (1951) .... Helene Samboni
• Das Ewige Spiel (1951) .... Marie Donatus
• Unvergängliches Licht (1951) .... Michèle Printemps
• Die Tödlichen Träume (1951) .... Angelika/Inez/Lisette/Maria
• Haus des Lebens (1952) .... Dr. Elisabeth Keller
• Abenteuer in Wien (1952) .... Karin Manelli
• The Divided Heart (1954) .... Inga
• Maxie (1954) .... Nora, seine Frau
• Schule für Eheglück (1954) .... Regine
• Oasis (1955) .... Karine Salstroem
• The Dark Wave (1956) .... Herself
• Never Say Goodbye (1956) .... Lisa Gosting (also performer: "For the First Time")
• Rot ist die Liebe (1957) .... Rosemarie
• Istanbul (1957) .... Stephanie Bauer/Karen Fielding
• Flood Tide (1958) .... Anne Gordon
• Arzt ohne Gewissen (1959) .... Harriet Owen

Family

She married twice, to Bruce Cunningham and to Dr. Anton Schelkopf (aka Dr. Toni Schelkopf, Toni Schelkopf or Schelkopf Toni), a Psychologist Doctor and Film Producer whom she met twice when she starred in his films Schule für Eheglück (1954) and Rot ist die Liebe (1957), later divorced, by whom she had at least one daughter, Julia Schelkopf, born in Munich, on 15 September 1962, who married at Aufkirchen on 30 May 1987 HSH Friedrich Wilhelm Philipp Georg Heinrich Jakob 7th Fürst von Hanau und zu Horowitz Graf von Schaumburg, born in Munich on 26 June 1959, and by whom she had three children: HSH Tassilo Hubertus Heinrich Antonius Erbprinz von Hanau und zu Horowitz Erbgraf von Schaumburg (born Starnberg, 8 November 1987), HSH Philippa Maria Theresia Prinzessin von Hanau und zu Horowitz Gräfin von Schaumburg (born Starnberg, 15 January 1989) and HSH Thaddäus Carl Heinrich Prinz von Hanau und zu Horowitz Graf von Schaumburg (born Starnberg, 16 June 1995).

External links

• Cornell Borchers at the Internet Movie Database
• Virtual History

Persondata
Name	Borchers, Cornell
Alternative names	Bruch, Cornelia
Short description	Actress
Date of birth	1925-3-16
Place of birth	Heydekrug, Lithuania
Date of death
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