Agnes Windeck

Agnes Windeck
Born	Agnes Sophie Albertine Windel (1888-03-27)27 March 1888 Hamburg, German Empire
Died	28 September 1975(1975-09-28) (aged 87) West Berlin, West Germany
Other names	Anni Windel
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1904-1973

Agnes Windeck (German: [ˈaɡnɛs ˈvɪnˌdɛk] ; 27 March 1888 – 28 September 1975) was a German theatre and film actress. She appeared in more than 50 films between 1939 and 1973. She was born in Hamburg and started her career at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in 1904. She later worked as a teacher at the drama school of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In the 1930s she began to play minor roles in several films but it was not until she was in her seventies when she became a popular character actress of West German cinema and television.

Selected filmography

• The Merciful Lie (1939)
• The Great Love (1942)
• Back Then (1943)
• The Years Pass (1945)
• Street Acquaintances (1948)
• Three Girls Spinning (1950)
• The Uncle from America (1953)
• Such a Charade (1953)
• Christina (1953)
• How Do I Become a Film Star? (1955)
• Vater sein dagegen sehr (1957)
• The Trapp Family (1956)
• The Copper (1958)
• A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
• The Ideal Woman (1959)
• Peter Shoots Down the Bird (1959)
• Only a Woman (1962)
• Gripshom Castle (1963)
• My Daughter and I (1963)
• The Squeaker (1963)
• Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse (1963)
• The Hunchback of Soho (1966)
• Die Unverbesserlichen (TV series, 6 episodes, 1966–71)
• Rheinsberg (1967)
• The Hound of Blackwood Castle (1968)
• Morning's at Seven (1968)
• Gentlemen in White Vests (1970)
• Old Barge, Young Love (1973)

External links

• Agnes Windeck at IMDb