Background
Ursula was born in 1924 to Wilhelmine Lange and Hans Schmidt.
Ursula was born in 1924 to Wilhelmine Lange and Hans Schmidt.
Thiess began her career on the stage in her native Germany and by dubbing female voices in American films as Ursula Schmidt. She co-starred with Robert Stack in The Iron Glove (1952), Rock Hudson in Bengal Brigade (1954), Glenn Ford in The Americano (1955), and Robert Mitchum in Bandido (1956). At age 17, for refusing to join the Hitler Youth, she was drafted into service working as farm labor.
They had two children, Manuela and Michael.
That marriage dissolved in 1947, and in 1948, she began a modeling career in Berlin. Her unusual beauty caught the eye of Howard Hughes, who made her a contract offer to join Radio-Keith-Orpheum Studios.
She virtually abandoned her film career to become a mother and housewife. The Taylors had two children Terrance "Terry" (b June 18, 1955 in Santa Monica, California) and Tessa (b August 16, 1959 in Santa Monica).
Ursula"s two children, Manuela and Michael, had many adjustment problems adapting to their new life, and were often in trouble with the police, causing the family to suffer bad publicity as a result.
Ursula discovered him dead when she stopped by his motel to drop off some medication for him. After Taylor"s death, she was obliged to sell their ranch. She even had a recurring role on his hit American Broadcasting Company-television series, The Detectives″ She was also known to go hunting and fishing with Taylor, who was a passionate sportsman.
Ursula Thiess wrote her autobiography..But I Have Promises to Keep: My Life Before, With and After Robert Taylor.
Thiess died of natural causes in an assisted living care facility in Burbank on June 19, 2010, at the age of 86.