Gerda Maurus

Gerda Maurus
Born	(1903-08-25)25 August 1903 Breitenfurt bei Wien, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Died	31 July 1968(1968-07-31) (aged 64) Düsseldorf, West Germany
Occupation	actress
Years active	1928-1968 (film & TV)

Gerda Maurus (25 August 1903 – 31 July 1968) was an Austrian actress.

She was of Croatian ethnicity, and initially made her name on stage in Vienna. While performing in the theatre, she was discovered by the director Fritz Lang during a visit to his native city. Lang cast her in the female lead in his silent thriller film Spione (1928) and she appeared in a number of German films during the Weimar and Nazi eras.

Selected filmography

• Spione (1928)
• Frau im Mond (1929)
• High Treason (1929)
• The Daredevil (1931)
• Alarm at Midnight (1931)
• The Stranger (1931)
• Checkmate (1931)
• Death Over Shanghai (1932)
• The White Demon (1932)
• Invisible Opponent (1933)
• The Double (1934)
• A Woman With Power of Attorney (1934)
• The Cossack and the Nightingale (1935)
• Daphne and the Diplomat (1937)
• My Wife's Friends (1949)
• The Little Town Will Go to Sleep (1954)

Bibliography

• Patrick McGilligan. Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast. St. Martin's Press, 1998.

External links

• Gerda Maurus at IMDb