Ellen Schmidt

{{Short description|German art director}} {{Infobox person | name = Ellen Schmidt | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 13 March 1922 | birth_place = Gelsenkirchen, Germany | death_date = 12 March 1997 (aged 74) | death_place = Hamburg, Germany | other_names = | occupation = Art director | years_active = 1951-1990 (film & TV) }} '''Ellen Schmidt''' (1922–1997) was a German art director active in film set design in the postwar era.<ref>Bergfelder p.254</ref> She frequently collaborated with her husband Mathias Matthies, including on several Edgar Wallace adaptations.

==Selected filmography== * ''Dark Eyes'' (1951) * ''The Sinful Border'' (1951) * ''Shooting Stars'' (1952) * ''My Wife Is Being Stupid'' (1952) * ''Don't Worry About Your Mother-in-Law'' (1954) * ''Men at a Dangerous Age'' (1954) * ''I Was an Ugly Girl'' (1955) * ''My Children and I'' (1955) * ''Father's Day'' (1955) * ''The First Day of Spring'' (1956) * ''The Girl from the Marsh Croft'' (1958) * ''Crime After School'' (1959) * ''The Merry War of Captain Pedro'' (1959) * ''Yes, Women are Dangerous'' (1960) * ''The Forger of London'' (1961) * ''The Green Archer'' (1961) * ''The Last Chapter'' (1961) * ''The Inn on the River'' (1962) * ''The Happy Years of the Thorwalds'' (1962) * ''Aurora Marriage Bureau'' (1962)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Bergfelder, Tim. ''International Adventures: German Popular Cinema and European Co-Productions in the 1960s''. Berghahn Books, 2005.

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0772909}}

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