Erna Sellmer

Erna Sellmer
Erna Sellmer (left) in 1945
Born	Erna Elisabeth Dorothea Sellmer (1905-06-19)19 June 1905 Hamburg, Germany
Died	13 May 1983(1983-05-13) (aged 77) Munich, West Germany
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1939–1983

Erna Elisabeth Dorothea Sellmer (19 June 1905 – 13 May 1983) was a German film actress. She was best known in the English-speaking world for her role as housekeeper Frau Gerber in the 1970s Swiss-Canadian television series George about a St. Bernard dog and its owners. In 1939 Sellmer provided the German language voiceover for Hattie McDaniel in her Academy award-winning role in Gone with the Wind.

Selected filmography

• Liberated Hands (1939)
• The Girl from Barnhelm (1940)
• The Great Love (1942)
• Two in a Big City (1942)
• The Bath in the Barn (1943)
• Port of Freedom (1944)
• I Need You (1944)
• Murderers Among Us (1946)
• Thank You, I'm Fine (1948)
• Insolent and in Love (1948)
• The Girl from the South Seas (1950)
• The Beautiful Galatea (1950)
• Corinna Schmidt (1951)
• Torreani (1951)
• Holiday From Myself (1952)
• Klettermaxe (1952)
• Fritz and Friederike (1952)
• Captain Bay-Bay (1953)
• Secretly Still and Quiet (1953)
• Diary of a Married Woman (1953)
• Hooray, It's a Boy (1953)
• The Flower of Hawaii (1953)
• Spring Song (1954)
• My Children and I (1955)
• I'll See You at Lake Constance (1956)
• The Heart of St. Pauli (1957)
• The Big Chance (1957)
• Munchhausen in Africa (1958)
• My Ninety Nine Brides (1958)
• Thirteen Old Donkeys (1958)
• The Night Before the Premiere (1959)
• Stage Fright (1960)
• Life Begins at Eight (1962)
• Homesick for St. Pauli (1963)
• Charley's Uncle (1969)

External links

• Erna Sellmer at IMDb