Wera Engels
Birthday
1909/05/12
Day of death
1988/11/16 (79 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Kiel, Germany
Also know as
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Biography
Wera Engels was a daughter of a German Admiral and Governor of the then German colony Tsing-tau-China. After successful leading roles in productions of the well-established German UFA-studios in Babelsberg as well as in France, Engels was invited to Hollywood. Producers saw her as a cheap alternative to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. She was contracted with RKO. Engels was given roles under Walter Futter and M.H. Hoffman. She and the silent movie super star Mary Pickford became best friends....Read more
Acting
(1935) Together We Live
as Sonia
(1931) English as it is spoken
as ---
(1931) Scent of the Woman in Black
as Edith Rance
(1935) Hong Kong Nights
as Trina Vidor
(1935) Sweepstake Annie
as Baroness Yvonne Baritska
(1934) Fugitive Road
as Sonya Valinoff
(1937) Talking About Jacqueline
as Jacqueline Topelius
(1933) The Great Jasper
as Norma McGowd
(1931) Lucky children
as ---
(1928) The Girl from Spree Woods
as ---
(1927) Fighting the White Slave Traffic
as Irene Wendtland
(1927) Lützow's Wild Hunt
as ---
(1936) Stjenka Rasin
as Prinzessin Dolgoruki
(1935) The Great Impersonation
as Princess Stephanie Elderstrom
(1930) The Gripper
as Mabel
(1927) Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?
as Ellen Shiffer
(1928) Befehl zur Ehe
as ---