Gerda Maurus
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Born | Breitenfurt bei Wien, Austro-Hungarian Empire | 25 August 1903
Died | 31 July 1968 | (aged 64)
Occupation | actress |
Years active | 1928-1968 (film & TV) |
Gerda Maurus (25 August 1903 – 31 July 1968) was an Austrian actress.[1]
She was of Croatian ethnicity, and initially made her name on stage in Vienna. While performing in the theatre, she was discovered by the director Fritz Lang during a visit to his native city. Lang cast her in the female lead in his silent thriller film Spione (1928) and she appeared in a number of German films during the Weimar and Nazi eras.
Selected filmography[]
- Spione (1928)
- Frau im Mond (1929)
- High Treason (1929)
- (1930)
- The Daredevil (1931)
- Alarm at Midnight (1931)
- The Stranger (1931)
- Checkmate (1931)
- Death Over Shanghai (1932)
- The White Demon (1932)
- Invisible Opponent (1933)
- The Double (1934)
- A Woman With Power of Attorney (1934)
- The Cossack and the Nightingale (1935)
- Daphne and the Diplomat (1937)
- My Wife's Friends (1949)
- The Little Town Will Go to Sleep (1954)
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-08-02. Retrieved 2011-05-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
Bibliography[]
- Patrick McGilligan. Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast. St. Martin's Press, 1998.
External links[]
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- Gerda Maurus at IMDb
Categories:
- 1903 births
- 1968 deaths
- Austrian stage actresses
- Austrian film actresses
- Austrian silent film actresses
- 20th-century Austrian actresses
- Austrian people of Croatian descent
- Austrian emigrants to Germany
- Austrian actor stubs