Gertrude Welcker

Personal Info

Birthday

July 15, 1896

Day of Death

1988-08-01

(92 years old)

Place of Birth

Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Also Known As

Gertrud Welcker

Gertrude Welker

Gertrude Welcker

Biography

Gertrude Welcker was a German stage and screen actress. From 1916 to 1919 she performed in Max Reinhardt theaters, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Kammerspiele, and Volksbühne. She made her film debut in "Hans Trutz in the Land of Plenty" in 1917. She ended her film career after 64 features in 1925. She stayed on a couple of years in the theatre. In 1941 she became a Red Cross nurse and escaped to Sweden as Gertud Carlsund.

Known For

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Der Tänzer

The Woman House of Brescia

Algol: Tragedy of Power

Evening – Night – Morning

Sturmflut des Lebens

When the Dead are Living Again

The Chronicles of the Gray House

Filmography

1925
Götz von Berlichingen zubenannt mit der eisernen Hand
as Adelheid von Walldorf
The Chronicles of the Gray House
as Gesine
1922
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
as Countess Dusy Told
1921
Sturmflut des Lebens
as Jutta Holtenau
1920
Das Recht der freien Liebe
as Lony Palmers
Evening – Night – Morning
as Maud
Algol: Tragedy of Power
as Leonore Nissen
The Woman House of Brescia
as Queen Margaret
Dolls of Death
as Grafentochter Maria
1919
Der Tänzer
as Lucie Trenkwitz
When the Dead are Living Again
as Dagmar Sunvall/Ingeborg Sunvall
Nocturno der Liebe
as Sonja Radowska
1917
Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
as Ein Engel