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Nationality: Austrian
Birthdate: 11/28/1896
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Death Date: 12/18/1994
biography
Galvanizing, stern-featured Viennese character actress with extensive Broadway experience ("The Diary of Anne Frank", "Medea and Jason") and regular if limited film and TV credits. A decade after recreating her Broadway role in the film version of the Irving Berlin musical "Call Me Madam" (1953) Skala first gained attention in features with her splendid, Oscar-nominated performance as the disciplined, argumentative but good-hearted Mother Superior who coaxes an itinerant handyman (Sidney Poitier) into building a church in the delightful sleeper "Lilies of the Field" (1963).Most typically in
