Friday, April 26, 2019

RIP Ellen Schwiers


German stage, film, TV actress Ellen Schwiers died at her home on Lake Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany on April 26, 2019 as the result of a neurological disease. She was 88. Schwiers was born in Stettin, Pomerania, Germany on June 11, 1930,  into a family of actors she toured in several theater plays and then appeared in more than 100 films and television shows between 1949 and 2017. Ellen appeared in two Euro-westerns: “The Bandits of the Rio Grande” (1965) as Lida and  “Ballad of a Gunman” (1967) as Maruja’s mother.

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