Trademark green eyes – actress Vera Chekhova is dead. In her decades-long film and television career, she appeared in almost 100 roles from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Chechowa began her film career in 1956 as Heinz Erhardt’s film daughter in “Widower with Five Daughters” She played her first leading role in 1957 in ‘Still a Minor’ alongside Paula Wessely. For example in: “Screams of the Night” (1969) “Cancer Ward’ (1970) ‘Desperado City’ and “Bluebeard’