Lisa Golm ( Luise Schmertzler, ; 10 April 1891 – 6 January 1964) was a German

actress An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. ...

who emigrated to America and appeared in a number of

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as a character actress. Golm made her first screen appearance in the 1939 film ''

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''. She also featured on American television, appearing on shows such as ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Biography

On 6 November 1918, she married Ernest Otto Ferdinand Golm in Berlin, Germany and later entered the United States at

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on 3 December 1937. She was

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as an American citizen on 24 September 1943, when a resident of

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Death

Golm died on 6 January 1964, aged 72, in

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. She was buried in the Haifa Cemetery in Israel. She was survived by her sister, Jennie Schmertzler.

Selected filmography

* ''

'' (1939) as Mrs. Anna Westphal (uncredited) * '' Escape'' (1940) as Anna * '' So Ends Our Night'' (1941) as The Pale Woman, Ruth's roommate * '' Journey for Margaret'' (1942) as Frau Weber * '' Woman of the Year'' (1942) as Yugoslav Consul's Wife (uncredited) * '' Calling Dr. Death'' (1943) as Marion's Mother * '' Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas'' (1943) as Frau Spitz (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1943) as Train Passenger Arriving Late (uncredited) * '' Above Suspicion'' (1943) as Frau Schulz (uncredited) * '' Madame Curie'' (1943) as Lucille (uncredited) * '' The Seventh Cross'' (1944) as Frau Hinkel (uncredited) * '' Shadow of a Woman'' (1946) as Emma * ''

Without Reservations ''Without Reservations'' is a 1946 RKO Radio Pictures American comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Claudette Colbert, John Wayne and Don DeFore. The film was adapted by Andrew P. Solt, Andrew Solt from the novel ''Thanks, God! I'l ...

'' (1946) as Alma (uncredited) * '' High Wall'' (1947) as Dr. Golm (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1947) as Elsie * '' Cry Wolf'' (1947) as Mrs. Laidell (uncredited) * '' A Foreign Affair'' (1948) as German (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1948) as Anna (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1949) as Mrs. Hummel (uncredited) * '' Anna Lucasta'' (1949) as Theresa * '' The Great Sinner'' (1949) as Elderly Lady (uncredited) * '' The Doctor and the Girl'' (1949) as Hetty * ''

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'' (1949) as Pamela's Nurse (uncredited) * '' East Side, West Side'' (1949) as Josephine * '' The Happy Years'' (1950) as Connie's Maid (uncredited) * '' The Hoodlum'' (1951) as Mrs. Lubeck * ''

Payment on Demand ''Payment on Demand'' is a 1951 American Drama (film and television), drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Bette Davis and Barry Sullivan (actor), Barry Sullivan. The screenplay by Bernhardt and Bruce Manning chronicles a marriage ...

'' (1951) as Molly * '' A Place in the Sun'' (1951) as Eastman's Maid (uncredited) * '' The Blue Veil'' (1951) as Elsa (uncredited) * '' Come Back, Little Sheba'' (1952) as Mrs. Coffman *''

My Pal Gus ''My Pal Gus'' is a 1952 American comedy drama film directed by Robert Parrish Robert Reese Parrish (January 4, 1916December 4, 1995) was an American film director, editor and former child actor. He won an Academy Award for Best Film Editin ...

'' (1952) as Anna * '' Invitation'' (1952) as Agnes, the Maid * ''

The Merry Widow ''The Merry Widow'' ( ) is an operetta by the Austria-Hungary, Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár. The Libretto, librettists, Viktor Léon and Leo Stein (writer), Leo Stein, based the story – concerning a rich widow, and her countrymen's ...

'' (1952) as Queen (uncredited) * '' Bad for Each Other'' (1953) as Mrs. Marzano (uncredited) * '' Ride the High Iron'' (1956) as Mrs. Danielchik *''

'' (1957) (Season 2 Episode 17: "My Brother, Richard") as Mrs. Kopeck * '' Monkey on My Back'' (1957) as Barney's Mother * ''

'' (1960) (Season 2 Episode 2: "The Man in the Bottle") as Mrs. Gumley

References

Bibliography

* Andreychuk, Ed. ''Burt Lancaster: A Filmography and Biography''. McFarland, 2015. * Capua, Michelangelo. ''Janet Leigh: A Biography''. McFarland, 2013. * Keaney, Michael F. ''Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959''. McFarland, 2003. * McLaughlin, Robert. ''We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II''. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.

External links

* 1891 births 1964 deaths German film actresses German television actresses Actresses from Berlin Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States {{Germany-film-bio-stub