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Celia Lovsky (born Cäcilia Josefina Lvovsky, February 21, 1897 – October 12, 1979) was an Austrian-American actress. She was born in Vienna, daughter of Břetislav Lvovsky (1857–1910), a minor Czech opera composer. She studied theater, dance, and languages at the Austrian Royal Academy of Arts and Music.
Celia Lovsky. Actress: Soylent Green. The daughter of Bretislav Lvovsky, a.k.a. Emil Pick (1857-1910), a minor Czech opera composer, Lovsky was born in Vienna, where she trained at the Royal Academy of Arts and Music. She was a rising stage star in Vienna and Berlin in 1929, when she met future husband Peter Lorre.
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Celia Lovsky. Actress: Soylent Green. The daughter of Bretislav Lvovsky, a.k.a. Emil Pick (1857-1910), a minor Czech opera composer, Lovsky was born in Vienna, where she trained at the Royal Academy of Arts and Music. She was a rising stage star in Vienna and Berlin in 1929, when she met future husband Peter Lorre.
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- October 12, 1979
Celia Lovsky - Trekkie Feminist. Celia Lovsky, who played the character of T’Pau in “Amok Time”, was born on February 21, 1897, one of only 11 credited Trek guest stars born in the 19th century. In “Amok Time”, T’Pau has a level of status and respect that was very rare for women characters in TOS.
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Celia Lovsky (21 February 1897 – 12 October 1979; age 82) was the Austrian actress who played T'Pau in the Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "Amok Time". Lovsky filmed her scenes between Wednesday 14 June 1967 and Monday 19 June 1967 at Desilu Stage 10.
Lovsky was born Cäcilia Josefina Lvovsky in Vienna on February 21, 1897; her father was a minor Czech classical composer. She studied at the Royal Academy and went on to appear in stage plays in Austria and Germany until meeting Hungarian actor Peter Lorre, whom she later married. She was instrumental in getting him cast as the child murderer in Fritz Lang's classic 1931 thriller M. Although the couple divorced in 1945, they remained devoted friends all their lives. Lorre had refused to permit her to work in America, believing that in a marriage, the man must do all the work. After their divorce, she sought out theater and film roles, but was hampered by a heavy Austro-Hungarian accent. She did get a number of character and exotic roles.
She played the mother of Lon Chaney, who herself was a deaf-mute, in Man of a Thousand Faces, where she used American Sign Language. (Hollywood Speaks: Deafness and the Film Entertainment Industry, [page number? • edit] John S. Schuchman, Illini Books, 1999) Late-night viewers probably remember her in this role or as Apache Princess Saba in an obscure 1955 film, Foxfire. Both films were directed by Joseph Pevney, who recommended Lovsky for the role of T'Pau in "Amok Time" after reading Theodore Sturgeon's script. He and Leonard Nimoy agreed that Lovsky would be "perfect". (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 53) Proving unable to perform the Vulcan salute naturally for "Amok Time", she manipulated the fingers of her left hand into the correct position before raising it into range of the camera (the salute is usually performed with the right hand).
She had many guest-starring television roles on such favorites as Bonanza, The Twilight Zone, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Lovsky and Susan Oliver appeared together in the Michael Shayne episode "The Heiress" and in The Gene Krupa Story (1959). She also appeared in Soylent Green (1973), which featured Whit Bissell, Leigh Taylor-Young, Robert Ito, Roy Jenson, Meg Wyllie, and Brock Peters, and was photographed by Richard H. Kline.
Lovsky died of natural causes in Los Angeles, California, in 1979, aged 82.
•Celia Lovsky at Wikipedia
•Celia Lovsky at the Internet Movie Database
She studied theater, dance, and languages at the Austrian Royal Academy of Arts and Music. She is best known to fans of Star Trek as the High Priestess T'Pau, and to fans of The Twilight Zone as the aged daughter of an eternally youthful Hollywood actress.
Active - 1934 - 1973 | Born - Feb 21, 1897 in Vienna | Died - Oct 12, 1979 | Genres - Drama, Romance, Thriller. Overview. Filmography. Other Appearances. Share on. facebook. twitter. Biography by AllMovie. Trained at the Royal Academy of Arts and Music in Vienna, Celia Lovsky gained popularity on the Austrian and German stage in the 1920s.
