Known for Acting
Katherina Freiin Schell von Bauschlott (born 17 July 1944, in Budapest) is an Hungarian-born actress best known for her work in England with the BBC. Schell rose to fame in various British film and television productions in the 1960s and 1970s. She acted under the name Catherine von Schell early in her career, but is better known by the name Catherine Schell. Description above from the Wikipedia article Catherine Schell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
July 17, 1944 (age 82)
Birthplace
Budapest, Hungary
Filmography
34 films, 34 shows


Space: 1999 4K Double Bill - Breakaway and The Metamorph
2026 · 1h 40m · UK
This Breakaway day, Anderson Entertainment presents a spectacular cinematic event for UK fans of classic science fiction. This Space: 1999 double bill brings together the groundbreaking first episode, Breakaway, and the acclaimed second-season opener, Metamorph, playing in a cinema near you. Featuring groundbreaking visual effects, profound questions, a stellar cast and action! All in the unmistakable style of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, these two landmark episodes mark the beginning of the journey and the beginning of a new era of science fiction.


Prisoners in Space
2025 · 1h 42m · UK
A desperate call for help as the residents of Moonbase Alpha are hurled into an interplanetary power struggle. As tensions rise, disaster strikes when a routine mission becomes a nightmare...


Space: 1999 - 50 Years Out of Orbit
2025 · 1h 15m · UK
Celebrating 50 years of Space: 1999. This documentary examines the inception, characters, cultural impact, and music of the iconic series. Featuring interviews with John Logan, J.Michael Straczynski, Richard Taylor, plus many more.


The Munsters
2022 · 1h 50m · US
Lily is a typical 150-year-old lovelorn vampire who's looking for the man of her nightmares -- until she lays her eyes on Herman, a 7-foot-tall green experiment with a heart of gold. It's love at first shock as these two ghouls fall fangs over feet for each other in a Transylvanian romance. Unfortunately, it's not all smooth sailing in the cemetery as Lily's father has other plans for his beloved daughter's future, and they don't involve her new bumbling beau.


Paris in the Springtime
2005 · 44m · UK
A 45-minute look at the making of City of Death, and in particular, the contribution of writer and script editor Douglas Adams.


The Clothes in the Wardrobe
1993 · 1h 19m · UK
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish neighbor Syl. Both bride- and groom-to-be still live with their mothers in the humdrum suburb of Croydon. However Margaret has been acting strangely ever since a vacation in Egypt, where she stayed with her mother's friend Marie-Claire. She secretly despises Syl, but does not resist when her mother, who has repressed the failure of her own matrimony, insists on marriage for the sake of social convention.


Pretty Princess
1993 · 1h 45m · IT
A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful swimming teacher.


On the Black Hill
1988 · 1h 57m · UK
The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.


Border
1988 · 1h 36m
Czechoslovakia, 1952. For some, life under the post-war Stalinist regime is hardly worth living and although the escape route to the West is almost suicide, the rewards - prosperity, political freedom, even luxury - make it a risk worth taking.


A Month in the Country
1985 · 2h 4m · UK
Ivan Turgenev's comedy features an attractive woman approaching middle age. At her husband's country estate, with an admirer in constant attendance, she loses her heart (and her common sense) to her ward's handsome tutor.


The Tale of Beatrix Potter
1983 · 1h 7m · UK
Biography based on the life of the author Beatrix Potter.
On the Third Day
On the Third Day
1983 · 1h 35m · UK
A couple return home to find a man inside who claims to be friends with the previous homeowner. He seems a friendly at first, but all is not as it seems.


Cosmic Princess
1982 · 1h 31m · UK
An alien princess aids people stranded on out-of-orbit Moonbase Alpha.


The Island of Adventure
1981 · 1h 25m
Four British teens on vacation visit an island and discover that a terrorist group is using it as their headquarters.


Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Acquaintance
1980 · 1h 8m · SU
Dr. Watson, who served in the English armed forces and was in the Afghan war, retires and returns to his homeland, in England. Since the financial situation of the doctor is very precarious, his long-time friend Mr. Stamford offers him to rent a room in the house at 221-B Baker Street, which is rented by an elderly lady - Mrs. Hudson. The second rented room is already occupied by another gentleman - the mysterious Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Holmes makes an ambiguous impression on Watson. He conducts complex chemical experiments with blood, plays the violin, has the deepest knowledge about cigar ash, London dirt and criminal law, but at the same time demonstrates complete ignorance of well-known truths (for example, the fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun), does not read fiction, as well as books on history and philosophy. At the same time, very strange visitors constantly come to Holmes, and on the table he has portraits of personalities of a disgusting appearance.


Doctor Who: City of Death
1979 · 1h 39m · UK
While taking in the sights of Paris in 1979, the Doctor and Romana sense that someone is tampering with time. Who is the mysterious Count Scarlioni? Why does he seem to have counterparts scattered through time? And just how many copies of the Mona Lisa did Leonardo da Vinci paint?


The Prisoner of Zenda
1979 · 1h 48m · US
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.


Destination Moonbase-Alpha
1978 · 1h 33m · UK
After an atomic explosion blasts the Moon out of Earth orbit, Moonbase Alpha drifts in space, with 300 people on board. When a rescue team from Earth arrives in a faster-than-light space ship, everyone is overjoyed that they can now return to Earth. But Moonbase Commander John Koenig, having undergone an experimental brain soothing process after receiving a concussion in a crash on the Lunar surface, sees not friends from Earth but gruesome monsters which have telepathically caused all others on Alpha to see an illusion of an Earth party. The aliens are desperate for radiation and plan to manipulate the Alphans into detonating nuclear waste on the Lunar surface, reducing the Moon and everyone on it to dust. Koenig must expose this conspiracy to save his people. Compiled from the two part episode The Bringers Of Wonder from the TV series Space: 1999's second series.
Exposure
Exposure
1978 · 48m · IE
Set on the desolate west coast of Ireland, the film explores a Polanski-like plot in which three surveyors find themselves stuck in a remote hotel with a French girl photographer.


Gulliver's Travels
1977 · 1h 21m · UK
Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu episode. It was made partly in live action and partly animated.
Loyalties
Loyalties
1976 · 1h 40m
During a weekend at a country house in the 1920s, a Jewish outsider accuses a former officer of theft, setting off a tragic chain of events.


The Return of the Pink Panther
1975 · 1h 53m · UK
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.


The Next Voice You See
1975 · 1h 13m · UK
An American jazz pianist, blinded in a London bank robbery ten years before, makes his first return appearance in England at an engangement party where he believes he hears the voice of the gunman who cost him his sight.


Callan
1974 · 1h 46m · UK
David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assassination of a german businessman, but Callan refuses to co-operate until he finds out why this man is marked for death.


The Black Windmill
1974 · 1h 46m · UK
A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.


Madame Sin
1972 · 1h 30m · UK
A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.


On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969 · 2h 22m · UK
With the help of Marc-Ange Draco, head of the Unione Corse crime syndicate, and Draco's troubled daughter Tracy, James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Stravro Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss Alps, where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women.


Moon Zero Two
1969 · 1h 41m · UK
On the Moon in the year 2021, a former-astronaut-turned-salvager helps a millionaire space industrialist capture a 6000-ton sapphire asteroid, while also assisting a woman in finding her missing miner/prospector brother


Swiss Movement
1969 · 7m
Documentary short about the making of On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) in Switzerland with a particular focus on the principal actors and the Piz Gloria mountain top setting.
Amsterdam Affair
Amsterdam Affair
1968 · UK
An Englishman in Holland gets involved in a murder case. It looks bad for him, but the wily Inspector Van Der Valk isn't convinced of his guilt.


Assignment K
1968 · 1h 37m · UK
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.


Hell Is Empty
1967 · 1h 49m · UK
On the run from the police, a female thief and her band of robbers take refuge on a desert island where they discover a mansion inhabited by a family whom they take hostage. One of the robbers falls for the couple's daughter.


Traitor's Gate
1964 · 1h 27m · DE
A wealthy businessman schemes to steal the valuable Crown Jewels from the heavily guarded Tower of London, but many tricky factors await, including a doppelgänger and a vessel escape on the Thames.


Lana: Queen of the Amazons
1964 · 1h 19m · BR
A scientist and his nephew are hosts of Lana, queen of the Amazons, while other crew men try to find and take hold of the legendary Amazons' treasure.