Acting
Wera Engels
1909 · Kiel, Germany
18 films
Bio
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.
Filmography
The Girl from Spree Woods
Sweepstake Annie
Baroness Yvonne Baritska
Talking About Jacqueline
Jacqueline Topelius
Scent of the Woman in Black
Edith Rance
Fighting the White Slave Traffic
Irene Wendtland
Fugitive Road
Sonya Valinoff
The Great Jasper
Norma McGowd
The Copper
Mabel
The Ringer
Cora Ann Milton
The Great Impersonation
Princess Stephanie Elderstrom
Befehl zur Ehe
Together We Live
Sonia