Personal Info
Known Credits
17
Gender
Female
Birthdate
1909-05-12 (116 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Kiel, Germany
Also Known For
Wera Engels
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. ...
Known For
Acting
1937 --
Talking About Jacqueline
| Jacqueline Topelius
1936 --
Stjenka Rasin
| Prinzessin Dolgoruki
1935 --
Hong Kong Nights
| Trina Vidor
1935 --
The Great Impersonation
| Princess Stephanie Elderstrom
1935 --
Together We Live
| Sonia
1935 --
Sweepstake Annie
| Baroness Yvonne Baritska
1934 --
Fugitive Road
| Sonya Valinoff
1933 --
The Great Jasper
| Norma McGowd
1931 --
Lucky children
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1931 --
Scent of the Woman in Black
| Edith Rance
1931 --
English as it is spoken
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1930 --
The Gripper
| Mabel
1928 --
Befehl zur Ehe
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1928 --
The Girl from Spree Woods
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1927 --
Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?
| Ellen Shiffer
1927 --
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
| Irene Wendtland
1927 --
Lützow's Wild Hunt
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