Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
26
Gender
Female
Birthday
August 22, 1897 ( 89 years old )
Also Known As
Ella vel Ettel Bergner
Elisabeth Bergner
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 nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1943, Bergner returned to Broadway in the play The Two Mrs. Carrolls, for which she was awarded the Distinguished Performance Medal by the Drama League.
Known For
Strogoff
1970-10-28Cry of the Banshee
1970-07-22Der Fußgänger
1973-09-05As You Like It
1936-09-02The Rise of Catherine the Great
1934-02-09Paris Calling
1941-12-04Fräulein Else
1929-03-07Escape Me Never
1935-05-24Nju - Eine unverstandene Frau
1924-11-21Stolen Life
1939-01-18