Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel (5 April 1900 – 24 December 1994) was an Austrian actress who started her career in Germany during the 1920s. Under the

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regime she emigrated to the United States, where she appeared on the Broadway and in a few Hollywood movies. She later returned to Germany, where she worked with numerous successful theatres of

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, among them

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's Berliner Bühnen. Neumann-Viertel was also a notable character actress in films and television, although she seldom played a leading role there. She retired in the late 1980s after nearly 70 years of acting. Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel was the second wife of film director

Berthold Viertel Berthold Viertel (28 June 1885 – 24 September 1953) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director, known for his work in Germany, the UK and the US. Early career Viertel was born in Vienna, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but later ...

Partial filmography

* '' Sister Veronika'' (1927) * ''Der fröhliche Weinberg'' (1927) - Frl. Stenz * '' Doña Juana'' (1927) * '' Doña Juana'' (1928) - Ines' Freundin Clara * '' M'' (1931) - (uncredited) * '' The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov'' (1931) - Fenja * ''

Donogoo Tonka ''Donogoo Tonka'' is a 1936 German comedy film directed by Reinhold Schünzel and starring Anny Ondra, Viktor Staal and Will Dohm.Kreimeier p. 284 It is based on a play of the same name by Jules Romains. A separate French-language version '' Do ...

'' (1936) - Auswandererfrau * ''

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'' (1936) - Junge Frau aus Ferrara * '' Lucky Kids'' (1936) * ''

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'' (1936) - Konzertbesucherin * '' The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler'' (1943) - Mizzi * ''

The House on 92nd Street ''The House on 92nd Street'' is a 1945 black-and-white American spy film directed by Henry Hathaway. The movie, shot mostly in New York City, was released shortly after the end of World War II. ''The House on 92nd Street'' was made with the full c ...

'' (1945) - Freda Kassel (uncredited) * ''

The Eternal Waltz ''The Eternal Waltz'' (german: Ewiger Walzer, link=no) is a 1954 West German drama film dramatizing the life of Johann Strauss II.Bock & Bergfelder p. 529 The initial story was written by Hanns Marschall and Ruth Charlotte Silbermann, and the fil ...

'' (1954) - Mutter Strauß * ''Beichtgeheimnis'' (1956) - Frau Blendinger * ''

The Secret Ways ''The Secret Ways'' is a 1961 American neo noir mystery thriller film based on Alistair MacLean's 1959 novel '' The Last Frontier''. It was directed by Phil Karlson and stars Richard Widmark. Plot In 1960 Vienna, after Soviet tanks crush the H ...

'' (1961) - Olga Kovac * ''

The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm ''The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm'' is a 1962 American fantasy film directed by Henry Levin and George Pal. The latter was the producer and also in charge of the stop motion animation. The film was one of the highest-grossing films of ...

'' (1962) - Flower Vendor (uncredited) * '' Freud: The Secret Passion'' (1962) - Frau Bernays, Martha's Mother (uncredited) * ''Kurzer Prozeß'' (1967) * ''

Heidi ''Heidi'' (; ) is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as ''Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning'' (german: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and ''Heidi: How She Use ...

'' (1968, TV Movie) - Grandmother * ''

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'' (1972) - Fraulein Schneider * ''

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'' (1974) - Frau Wenzer * ''

Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi ''Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi'' is a German television series broadcast from 1973 through 1975 in 26 parts and two seasons. It featured an adventurer probably inspired by British explorers Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) and T. E. Lawrence. The scr ...

'' (1975, TV Series) - Einödbäuerin * ''

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'' (1978, TV Series) - Frau Ellweg * '' The Fifth Musketeer'' (1979) - Oberin im Kloster * ''The American Success Company'' (1980) * ' (1983) - Grandmother * ''Happy Weekend'' (1983) * '' The Little Drummer Girl'' (1984) - Mrs. Minkel * ''Why Is There Salt in the Sea?'' (1988, TV Movie) - Uschi's Grandmother (final film role)

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