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Marianne Koch (born August 19, 1931) 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 ' (''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, as of 2014, still has 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 has been in a relationship with the publicist Peter Hamm since the mid-1980s. == Selected filmography == * ' (1953) * ''Night People'' (1954) * ''Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs'' (1955) * ''Des Teufels General'' (1955) * ''As Long as You Live'' (1955) * ''If We All Were Angels'' (1956) * ''Four Girls in Town'' (1957) * ''Der Stern von Afrika'' (1957) * ''Interlude'' (1957) * ' (1957) * ' (1958) * ' (1960) * ' (1961) * ''Napoléon II l'Aiglon'' (1961) * ''Die Fledermaus'' (1962) * ' (1962) * ''The Devil's Agent'' (1962) * ' (1963) * ''Death Drums Along the River'' (1963) * ''The Last Ride to Santa Cruz'' (1964) * ''A Fistful of Dollars'' (1964) * ''Coast of Skeletons'' (1964) * ' (1965) * ''Trunk to Cairo'' (1966) * ''Clint the Stranger'' (1967) * ''Sandy the Seal'' (1968) * ''The Unnaturals'' (1969) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marianne Koch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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