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Hildegard Knef’s acting career was as checkered as the era in which she rose to prominence. The German actress, who died Feb. 1 of a lung infection in a Berlin hospital at age 76, began her ...

WHEN Hildegard Knef started out as an actress Germany was still ruled by Hitler. She recalled that at her first audition she had to pretend to be “a joyous German maid in the summer wind ...

Hildegard Knef, a smoky-voiced actress and singer who starred in Germany's first post-World War II movie and scandalized church officials with a 1951 nude scene, died Friday at a Berlin hospital.

Perfect material for a one­-woman show, Hildegard Knef was a film and singing star who rose to fame in post­war Germany.

Knef, who sometimes appeared as Hildegard Neff in the United States, appeared in more than 50 films, most of them made in Europe. She reportedly turned down a Hollywood studio contract after being ...

FRANKFURT, Germany -- Hildegard Knef, 76, a smoky-voiced actress and singer who starred in Germany's first post-World War II movie and scandalized church officials with a 1951 nude scene, died Feb ...