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Marianne Koch

Marianne Koch

AKA: Марианна Кох

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Born: 1931 München, Germany 36 Global Credits 🔥 0.8 Popularity
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Marianne Koch (born August 19, 1931 in Munich) is a retired German actress of the 1950s and 1960s, best known for her appearances in spaghetti westerns and adventure films of the 1960s. She later worked as a television host and as a physician.

Between 1950 and 1971, Koch appeared in more than 65 films. In the haunting 1954 espionage thriller Night People she starred alongside Gregory Peck. Sergio Leone's 1964 production A Fistful of Dollars showcased her alongside Clint Eastwood as a civilian tormented by ruthless local gangsters, torn between her husband and child and the villains. In Germany she was probably best-loved for her many years of participation in the highly popular TV game show Was bin ich which ran from the 1950s until 1988 and achieved ratings of up to 75% at its peak.

In 1971, she resumed the medical studies she had broken off in the early 1950s to become an actress. She got her MD in 1974 and practiced medicine until 1997 as a specialist in Munich. In 1976, she was one of the initial hosts of Germany's pioneering talk show 3 nach 9 [Three After Nine], for which she was awarded one of the most prestigious awards of the German television industry, the Grimme Preis. She also hosted other television shows and had a medical advice program on radio.

In 1953, she married the physician Gerhard Freund, with whom she has two sons. The marriage ended in 1973 after Freund began an affair with Miss World 1956, Petra Schürmann, whom he later wed.

Marianne Koch is in a relationship with the publicist Peter Hamm since the mid 1980s.

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Show / Title Year Credit / Role
Lebenslinien 2014 Self
MDR um 4 2014 Self
Stöckl 2013 Self
Markus Lanz 2008 Self
Der Sonntags-Stammtisch 2007 Self
Daheim & unterwegs 2003 self
Wir in Bayern 2003 Self
Menschen bei Maischberger 2003 Self
Hart aber fair 2001 Self
Menschen der Woche 2000 Self
Abendschau 2000 Self
Münchner Runde 2000 Contributor
maybrit illner 1999 Self
Volle Kanne 1999 Self
Beckmann 1999 Self
The Johannes B. Kerner Show 1998 Self
Alpha Forum 1998 Self
Sabine Christiansen 1998 Self
Nachtstudio 1997 Self
Tietjen und Bommes 1997 Self
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio 1994 Self
Riverboat 1992 Self
DAS! 1991 Self
ZDF-Mittagsmagazin 1989 Self
Nachtcafé 1987 Self
Wortwechsel 1982 Self
Heut' abend 1980 Self
NDR Talk Show 1979 Self
Kölner Treff 1976 Self
3 nach 9 1974 Self
Dalli Dalli 1971 Self - Candidate
The Commissioner 1969 Hannelore Krems
Zum blauen Bock 1957 Self
Was bin ich? 1955 Self - Panelist
German Film Award 1951 Self
Bambi 1948 Self