Elisabeth Bergner
Birthday
1897/08/22
Day of death
1986/05/12 (88 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Also know as
Ella vel Ettel Bergner
Biography
Elisabeth Bergner (born Elisabeth Ettel; 22 August 1897 – 12 May 1986) was a European actress. Primarily a stage actress, her career flourished in Berlin and Paris, before she moved to London to work in films. Her signature role was Gemma Jones in Escape Me Never, a play written for her by Margaret Kennedy. Bergner, known in Europe as La Bergner, played Gemma first in London, and then made her Broadway debut with the role in 1935. She later repeated it in a film version, for which she was nomina...Read more
Acting
(1970) Strogoff
as Mother
(1970) Cry of the Banshee
as Oona
(1973) The Pedestrian
as Frau Lilienthal
(1936) As You Like It
as Rosalind
(1934) The Rise of Catherine the Great
as Catherine
(1941) Paris Calling
as Marianne Jannetier
(1929) Fräulein Else
as Else Thalhof
(1935) Escape Me Never
as Gemma Jones
(1924) Husbands or Lovers
as Nju
(1939) Stolen Life
as Sylvina Lawrence / Martina Lawrence
(1931) Ariane
as Ariane Kusnetzowa
(1962) The Happy Years of the Thorwalds
as Frau Thorwald
(1978) Der Pfingstausflug
as Margarete Johannsen
(1932) Dreaming Lips
as Gaby
(1984) Wenn ich dich nicht hätte
as Sophie Kaiser
(1983) Der Garten
as Mrs. Merriman
(1982) Feine Gesellschaft – Beschränkte Haftung
as Else
(1975) Nachtdienst
as Baroness
(1926) Impetuous Youth
as Renee
(1975) The House on the Hill
as Ellen
(1937) Dreaming Lips
as Gaby Lawrence
(1928) Love
as Herzogin von Langeais
(1976) Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
as Self - Interviewee
(1924) Der Evangelimann
as Magdalena
(1928) Lady Juan
as ---
(1973) Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self
(1951) Deutscher Filmpreis
as Self
(1962) Das Profil
as Self
(1979) Zeugen des Jahrhunderts
as Self
(1979) NDR Talk Show
as Self
(1980) Heut' abend
as Self