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Jeanette Sterke

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Jeanette Sterke
A British safe-cracker goes to prison but when WW2 starts he's recruited by the army intelligence and is sent to Nazi-occupied Belgium to crack the safe of a German Abwehr unit located in a chateau.
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The Safecracker (1958)
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The English actress Jeanette Sterke was born in Prague in the former Czechoslovakia in 1933. Her parents escaped the Nazis by fleeing to England. After finishing her schooling, she attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She made her TV debut in an adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's Liebelei (1954) on the B.B.C. in 1954. She regularly appeared on British TV through the early '70s. Her last TV appearance was in 1986, in the mini-series _My Brother Tom (TV) (1986)_.

She appeared less frequently in motion pictures. Her movie debut came in 1955 in the Alec Guinness film The Prisoner (1955). The following year she appeared with Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life (1956). She also appeared in Fred Zinnemann's 1959 masterpiece The Nun's Story (1959) as one of Audrey Hepburn's "sisters", but in very few movies after that.

Sterke also has appeared on stage, sometimes with her husband Keith Michell, whom she married in 1957. They have a son, Paul Michell, and a daughter, the actress Helena Michell.
BornMarch 25, 1933
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Jeanette Sterke in Lust for Life (1956)
Jeanette Sterke in The Safecracker (1958)
Jeanette Sterke in The Prisoner (1955)
Jeanette Sterke in The Safecracker (1958)
Jeanette Sterke in The Safecracker (1958)
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Ray Milland and Jeanette Sterke in The Safecracker (1958)

Known for

Norman Wisdom in A Stitch in Time (1963)
A Stitch in Time
7.0
  • Nurse Haskell(as Jeannette Sterke)
  • 1963
The Avengers (1961)
The Avengers
8.3
TV Series
  • Janice Crane(as Jeannette Sterke)
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950)
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre
8.2
TV Series
  • Anishcu
  • Anne Boleyn
  • Katrine
  • Margaret Maskelyne
  • Maria
  • Maria Fitzherbert
  • Mrs. de Winter
  • The Marshal's daughter
Kirk Douglas and Julie Robinson in Lust for Life (1956)
Lust for Life
7.3
  • Kay
  • 1956

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Actress

  • My Brother Tom (1986)
    My Brother Tom
  • Timothy Bottoms in The Story of David (1976)
    The Story of David
  • Keith Michell in Moments (1974)
    Moments
  • The Ten Commandments
  • The Doctors (1969)
    The Doctors
  • ITV Play of the Week (1955)
    ITV Play of the Week
  • Uncle Charles
  • Marius Goring in The Suspect (1966)
    Thirteen Against Fate
  • The Avengers (1961)
    The Avengers
    • (as Jeannette Sterke)
  • The First 400 Years
  • The Double (1963)
    The Double
  • Norman Wisdom in A Stitch in Time (1963)
    A Stitch in Time
    • (as Jeannette Sterke)
  • Maupassant
  • The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1959)
    The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
  • Drama 61-67 (1961)
    Drama 61-67

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    • March 25, 1933
    • Prague, Czechoslovakia
    • Keith MichellOctober 18, 1957 - November 20, 2015 (his death, 2 children)
  • She acted in Royce Ryton and Michael Havers' play, "The Royal Baccarat Scandal", in a 1988 Chichester Festival production at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London, England with Keith Michell, Rowland Davies, John McCallum, Fiona Fullerton, Gary Bond, Laurence Kennedy, Gerald Harper, Philip Stone, Jackie Smith-Wood and Simon Packham in the cast. Val May was the director.

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