Christa Lang
{{short description|German actress}}
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| name=Christa Lang
| image=Christa Lang ca 1960s.jpg
| caption=Lang in a publicity photo, ca. 1967
| birth_name=Christa Lang
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| birth_place=Winterberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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| occupation=Actress, screenwriter
| children=Samantha Fuller
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| spouse={{Marriage|Samuel Fuller|1967|1997|end=d}}
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Christa Lang-Fuller is a German-American film and television actress and screenwriter. Lang worked frequently with her husband, director Samuel Fuller and is known for such films as White Dog, Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street, What's Up, Doc?, Land of Plenty, No Fear, No Die, Alphaville, The Big Red One, Nickelodeon and Thieves After Dark.{{cite web |title=Christa Lang |url=http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/40403/Christa-Lang |website=The New York Times |access-date=December 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325143743/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/40403/Christa-Lang |archive-date=March 25, 2016 |date=March 25, 2016 |url-status=dead}}
Early life
Christa Lang was born in Winterberg, Germany.{{cite web|url=https://filmtalk.org/t/|work=Film Talk|title=A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking (Samuel Fuller, with Christa Lang Fuller, Jerome Henry Rudes; introduction by Martin Scorsese)|date=31 December 2014|accessdate=November 11, 2016}} At age seventeen, Lang moved to France, working in Paris as an au pair and a translator for a textile firm while studying acting.{{cite web|url=https://whitecitycinema.com/2011/09/14/actressauthor-interview-christa-lang-fuller/|work=White City Cinema|date=September 9, 2011|last=Smith|first=Michael Glover|title=Actress/Author Interview: Christa Lang Fuller|accessdate=November 12, 2016}}
Career
Lang made her film debut in the French new wave film The Murderer Knows the Score (1963), and had an uncredited walk-on role in Alphaville (1965). In 1967, she had a supporting part in The Champagne Murders opposite Anthony Perkins, followed by a supporting role in What's Up, Doc? (1972) opposite Barbra Streisand. In 1976, she appeared as Anna Hauptmann in The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, based on the Lindbergh kidnapping.
She would go on to appear in her husband, Samuel Fuller's film White Dog (1982). In 1981, Lang co-founded Chrisam Films with Fuller.{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/explore/40-christa-lang-fuller-s-top-10|work=The Criterion Collection|title=Christa Lang-Fuller's Top 10|accessdate=November 9, 2016}} She also appeared in the French film Thieves After Dark (1984), and The Blood of Others (1984), opposite Jodie Foster and Sam Neill.
As a screenwriter, Lang is perhaps best known as the co-writer, with her husband, of the 1994 film Girls in Prison.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160325143748/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/40403/Christa-Lang/filmography The New York Times]
Personal life
Lang was married to director Samuel Fuller from 1967 until his death in 1997. They had one daughter, Samantha Fuller.
Filmography as actress
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! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes | |||
| 1963 | The Murderer Knows the Score | Christine | |
| 1964 | Code Name: Tiger | La fille avec Dobrovsky | |
| 1965 | Alphaville | 1st Seductress Third Class | uncredited |
| 1965 | Mission spéciale à Caracas | Christelle | |
| 1966 | The Upper Hand | La fille de Mario | |
| 1967 | The Champagne Murders | Paula | |
| 1967 | Réseau secret | Eva | |
| 1969 | Charro! | Christa | |
| 1972 | What's Up, Doc? | Mrs. Hosquith | |
| 1973 | Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street | Christa | originally a {{Lang|de|Tatort}} episode |
| 1975 | At Long Last Love | Pregnant Lady | |
| 1976 | The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case | Anna Hauptmann | television film |
| 1976 | Nickelodeon | Stage Performer | |
| 1980 | The Big Red One | German Countess | uncredited |
| 1982 | White Dog | Nurse | |
| 1984 | Thieves After Dark | Solange | |
| 1984 | The Blood of Others | Femme Allemand fouille | |
| 1984 | Mistral's Daughter | Concierge | miniseries; 4 episodes |
| 1989 | Samuel Fuller's Street of No Return | Nurse | |
| 1990 | Tinikling ou 'La madonne et le dragon' | Mama | |
| 1990 | No Fear, No Die | Toni's mother | |
| 1993 | Les arpenteurs de Montmartre | ||
| 1998 | L. A. Without a Map | Woman on Bus | |
| 2001 | Aizea: City of the Wind | Card Playing Woman | short film |
| 2004 | Land of Plenty | Trailer Park Woman | |
| 2013 | Night of the Templar | Blind Woman | |
| 2017 | The Queen of Hollywood Blvd | Mama |
References
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External links
{{Commons}}
- {{IMDb name|0485713}}
- [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christa-Lang Christa Lang] at Encyclopædia Britannica
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Category:20th-century German actresses
Category:21st-century German actresses
Category:American film actresses
Category:German film actresses
Category:German women screenwriters
Category:People from Winterberg
Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:Actresses from North Rhine-Westphalia