---
name: "Margit Symo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/margit-symo"
fi1m_id: "margit-symo"
imdb_id: "nm0843348"
tmdb_id: 2734
wikidata_id: "Q88841"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "13 September 1913"
died: "10 June 1992"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T17:54:33.765777+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Margit Symo

## Identity

Margit Symo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/margit-symo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** margit-symo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0843348
- **TMDB ID:** 2734
- **Wikidata ID:** Q88841
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margit_Symo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88841, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843348/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2734

Actor. Born 13 September 1913 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Budapest, Hungary). Died 10 June 1992.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 13 September 1913, Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Budapest, Hungary)
- **Died:** 10 June 1992
- **Also known as:** Margit Simo, Margrit Simo, Margarita Simó
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margit_Symo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88841, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0843348/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2734

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Ali: Fear Eats the Soul*](https://film.one/film/ali-fear-eats-the-soul.md) (88)

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## Biography

Margit Symo (also credited as Margit Simo) was a Hungarian-born German actress and dancer. Born in Budapest, she trained there and achieved early success in stage revues and operettas in Hungary before moving to Germany in the early 1930s. She performed at the Metropol Theater in Berlin as part of a dance team with her brother Michael.

Symo made her film debut in *Zigeunerblut* (1934) and appeared in numerous German entertainment films through the 1930s and 1940s, often in roles as dancers, gypsies or exotic characters, and contributed to soundtracks. She was married to the composer Willy Mattes; the couple lived in Sweden from 1946 until their divorce in 1951, after which she returned to Germany. Their daughter, Eva Mattes, also became an actress.

From the mid-1950s her screen appearances became sporadic and mostly in supporting roles or on television. Notable later credits include *Ich denke oft an Piroschka* (1955), *Der tolle Bomberg* (1957) and *Ali: Fear Eats the Soul* (1974), in which she played Hedwig. She died in Munich in 1992.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ali: Fear Eats the Soul* (1974), Fi1m 88, as Hedwig — [page](https://film.one/film/ali-fear-eats-the-soul.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Hab' ich nur deine Liebe* (1989), as Frau Seifenglauber
- *Crazy Boys - A Handful of Pleasure* (1987), as Dame
- *Der Fahnder* (1984), series, as Elvira
- *Vor den Vätern sterben die Söhne* (1981), Actor
- *Polizeiinspektion 1* (1977), series, as Wahrsagerin
- *Ali: Fear Eats the Soul* (1974), as Hedwig — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/ali-fear-eats-the-soul.md)
- *Alle Hunde lieben Theobald* (1969), series, Actor
- *The Commissioner* (1969), series, as Frau Schröder
- *Der tolle Bomberg* (1957), as Galina Krakowskaja
- *I Often Think of Piroschka* (1955), as Etelka Rácz
- *The Little Town will go to Sleep* (1954), as Rita Heinrich
- *Comedy Times Three* (1949), as Lola Bella
- *Der Verteidiger hat das Wort* (1944), as Ria Nora
- *Liebe, Leidenschaft und Leid* (1943), as Maria
- *An Old Heart Becomes Young Again* (1943), as Ilona Halmos
- *Einmal der liebe Herrgott sein* (1942), as Elvira del Basto
- *Die Sache mit Styx* (1942), as Ariane
- *The Postmaster* (1940), as Mascha
- *Gypsy Ways* (1939), as Zigeunerin
- *Carmen la de Triana* (1938), as Dolores
- *Nights in Andalusia* (1938), as Eine Tänzerin
- *Not a Word About Love* (1937), as Stascha
- *Der Unwiderstehliche* (1937), as Grisette, Andrés Freundin
- *The Yellow Flag* (1937), as Lu
- *Autobus S* (1937), as Rita
- *Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit* (1937), as Tänzerin
- *My Life Is at Stake* (1936), as Ilona Radnai
- *A Night on the Danube* (1935), as Ilonka
- *She and the Three* (1935), as Tanzpaar
- *Gypsy Blood* (1934), as Ilonka

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