Paula Wessely

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1907-01-20 (93 years old)

Deathday

2000-05-11

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria

Paula Wessely

Biography

Paula Anna Maria Wessely (20 January 1907 – 11 May 2000) was an Austrian theatre and film actress. Die Wessely (literally "The Wessely"), as she was affectionately called by her admirers and fans, was Austria's foremost popular postwar actress.

Acting

1934

Masquerade in Vienna

as Leopoldine Dur

1961

Anatol

as Gabriele

1961

Everyman

as Glaube

1957

The Third Sex

as Christa Teichmann

1935

Episode

as Valerie Gärtner

1948

The Angel with the Trumpet

as Henriette Alt, geb. Stein

1955

Die Wirtin zur Goldenen Krone

as Fürstin Pia Maria

1951

Maria Theresia

as Maria Theresia

1953

Ich und meine Frau

as Sophie Naglmüller

1954

The Light of Love

as Käthe Zeller

1943

Späte Liebe

as Sophie von Angerspang

1944

Das Herz muß schweigen

as Maximiliane Frey

1949

Vagabunden

as Dr. Elisabeth Kamma

1961

Der Bauer als Millionär

as Die Zufriedenheit

1937

1939

Maria Ilona

as Maria Ilona von Wolkersdorf

1959

Die unvollkommene Ehe

as Frau Dr. Winifred Lert

1940

Ein Leben lang

as Agnes Seethaler

1957

Unter Achtzehn

as Luise Gottschalk

1934

So Ended a Great Love

as Grand Duchess Marie Louise

1941

Homecoming

as Maria Thomas

1938

Spiegel des Lebens

as Johanna 'Hanna' Karfreit

1950

Cordula

as Cordula

1954

Weg in die Vergangenheit

as Gabriele Gärtner

1964

Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung

as Mrs. Arbuthnot

1974

1960

Das weite Land

as Genia Hofreiter

1957

Maria Stuart

as Königin Maria Stuart von Schottland

1968

Fast ein Poet

as Nora Melody

1936

Die Julika

as Julika

1965

Port Royal

as Schwester Angelika vom hl. Johannes

1963

Überfahrt

as Mrs. Midget

1948

Leckerbissen

as Self - film scenes (archive footage)

Production

1959

Die unvollkommene Ehe

as Executive Producer

1954

The Light of Love

as Executive Producer

1957

Unter Achtzehn

as Producer

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