Wera Engels

Personal Info

Birthday

May 12, 1909

Day of Death

1988-11-16

(79 years old)

Place of Birth

Kiel, Germany

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.

Known For

Hong Kong Nights

Sweepstake Annie

Stjenka Rasin

The Great Impersonation

Together We Live

Fugitive Road

The Copper

Scent of the Woman in Black

Filmography

1937
Talking About Jacqueline
as Jacqueline Topelius
1936
Stjenka Rasin
as Prinzessin Dolgoruki
1935
Hong Kong Nights
as Trina Vidor
The Great Impersonation
as Princess Stephanie Elderstrom
Together We Live
as Sonia
Sweepstake Annie
as Baroness Yvonne Baritska
1934
Fugitive Road
as Sonya Valinoff
1933
The Great Jasper
as Norma McGowd
1931
Scent of the Woman in Black
as Edith Rance
1930
The Copper
as Mabel
1927
Hast Du geliebt am schönen Rhein?
as Ellen Shiffer
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
as Irene Wendtland