x

Login

Remember me
Forget password ?

Or via social

x

sign up

person_profile-Wera Engels

Wera Engels Died at age: 79

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Wera Engels

Date of Birth:

May 12, 1909

Country of birth:

Germany

Died:

Nov 16, 1988

Biography of

Wera Engels

    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. By 1935 she returned to Germany, but left soon thereafter, because of the decline of the German movie industry caused by the Nazi propaganda machine. Back in Hollywood, she dated Gary Cooper for a while but married the Lithuanian-born actor/writer Ivan Lebedeff. After Lebedeff's death in 1953 of Angina pectoris, she moved back to Europe, where she stayed with several friends in London and Stockholm before she went back to Germany. She lived the rest of her life with Erna Hoffmann (widow of Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's friend and personal photographer) in the Munich area.

    She died on November 16, 1988 (age 79) in Munich, Germany.

Photos of

Wera Engels

Photos ( 1 Photos

Filmography of

Wera Engels

Found 10 Movies in total

Talking About Jacqueline

Jacqueline Topelius ( Actor )

... 1937

Stjenka Rasin

Prinzessin Dolgoruki ( Actor )

... 1936

Hong Kong Nights

Trina Vidor ( Actor )

... 1935

The Great Impersonation

Princess Stephanie Elderstrom ( Actor )

... 1935

Together We Live

Sonia ( Actor )

... 1935

Fugitive Road

Sonya Valinoff ( Actor )

... 1934

The Great Jasper

Norma McGowd ( Actor )

... 1933

The Gripper

Mabel ( Actor )

... 1930

... 1928

Fighting the White Slave Traffic

Irene Wendtland ( Actor )

... 1927