Camilla Spira

Camilla Spira
Born	(1906-03-01)1 March 1906 Hamburg, Germany
Died	25 August 1997(1997-08-25) (aged 91) Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1924–1986

Camilla Spira (1 March 1906 – 25 August 1997) was a German film actress. She appeared in 68 films between 1924 and 1986. She was born in Hamburg, Germany, of Jewish ancestry, and died in Berlin, Germany. Her father was the Austrian actor Fritz Spira who died in the Ruma concentration camp in 1943. Her mother was the actress Lotte Spira and her sister the East German actress Steffie Spira.

Selected filmography

• A Free People (1925)
• Wrath of the Seas (1926)
• The Third Squadron (1926)
• We Belong to the Imperial-Royal Infantry Regiment (1926)
• Aftermath (1927)
• My Sister and I (1929)
• My Leopold (1931)
• Scandal on Park Street (1932)
• The Eleven Schill Officers (1932)
• Haunted People (1932)
• Morgenrot (1933)
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
• Die Buntkarierten (1949)
• The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950)
• Pension Schöller (1952)
• The Last Man (1955)
• The Heart of St. Pauli (1957)
• The Mad Bomberg (1957)
• Freddy, the Guitar and the Sea (1959)
• Piccadilly Zero Hour 12 (1963)

External links

• Camilla Spira at IMDb
• Photographs and literature