Ellen Schmidt Explained

Ellen Schmidt
Birth Date:	13 March 1922
Death Date:	12 March 1997 (aged 74)
Death Place:	Hamburg, Germany
Occupation:	Art director
Yearsactive:	1951-1990 (film & TV)

Ellen Schmidt (1922–1997) was a German art director active in film set design in the postwar era.^[1] She frequently collaborated with her husband Mathias Matthies, including on several Edgar Wallace adaptations.

Selected filmography

• Dark Eyes (1951)
• The Sinful Border (1951)
• Shooting Stars (1952)
• My Wife Is Being Stupid (1952)
• Don't Worry About Your Mother-in-Law (1954)
• Men at a Dangerous Age (1954)
• I Was an Ugly Girl (1955)
• My Children and I (1955)
• Father's Day (1955)
• The First Day of Spring (1956)
• The Girl from the Marsh Croft (1958)
• Crime After School (1959)
• Yes, Women are Dangerous (1960)
• The Forger of London (1961)
• The Green Archer (1961)
• The Inn on the River (1962)
• The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962)

Bibliography

• Bergfelder, Tim. International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s. Berghahn Books, 2005.

Notes and References

1. Bergfelder p.254