Gertrude Welcker

Gertrude Welcker

Birth : 1896-07-16, Dresden, Saxony, Germany

Death : 1988-08-01

History

Gertrude Welcker was a German stage and screen actress. From 1916 to 1919 she performed in Max Reinhardt theaters, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Kammerspiele, and Volksbühne. She made her film debut in "Hans Trutz in the Land of Plenty" in 1917. She ended her film career after 64 features in 1925. She stayed on a couple of years in the theatre. In 1941 she became a Red Cross nurse and escaped to Sweden as Gertud Carlsund.

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Gertrude Welcker
Gertrude Welcker

Movies

Götz von Berlichingen zubenannt mit der eisernen Hand
Adelheid von Walldorf
The Chronicles of the Gray House
Gesine
Hinrich, the son of a feudal German landowner, falls in love with the beautiful daughter of one of his father's serfs despite opposition from both families. But when he actually offers marriage to her, this is going too far. The return of his brother Detlev, with an unscrupulous aristocratic bride of his own and a rival claim to their father's estates, proves to be the trigger for tragedy.
Zaida, die Tragödie eines Modells
Zwischen Abend und Morgen
Demon Circus
A triangle drama involving a female circus owner's favor has consequences. Paula Busch, the grande dame of German circus, depicts a story from the world of artists, tents and wagons. Deutsche Kinemathek holds a 35 mm print of the film.
Luise Millerin
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler: Inferno: A Game for the People of Our Age
Gräfin Dusy Told
As the police intensify their bemusing search on Doctor Mabuse's notorious band of gangsters, the deceptive, elusive hypnotist Mabuse simultaneously begins to close in on himself.
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler: The Great Gambler: A Picture of the Time
Gräfin Dusy Told
Doctor Mabuse is a criminal mastermind, doctor of psychology, and master of disguise, armed with the powers of hypnosis and mind control, who oversees the counterfeiting and gambling rackets of the Berlin underworld. He visits gambling dens by night under various guises and aliases, using the power of suggestion to win at cards and finance his plans.
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Countess Dusy Told
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
Die Minderjährige
Ehrenschuld
Returning home after a lengthy time at sea, a man must choose between his childhood sweetheart and another woman who was somehow involved with the untimely death of his brother.
Sturmflut des Lebens
Jutta Holtenau
Lady Godiva
Das Recht der freien Liebe
Lony Palmers
Evening - Night - Morning
Maud
Cheston, a millionaire, is looking after Maud, a beautiful woman from the 'demimonde'. Her brother, Brilburn, forces her to ask her rich admirer for an expensive piece of jewelry. Cheston buys a precious pearl necklace.
Algol: Tragedy of Power
Leonore Nissen
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.
Die Söhne des Grafen Dossy
Die Duplizität der Ereignisse
The Woman House of Brescia
Queen Margaret
"The House of Pillory" - a place where the enemy women captured during wartime were imprisoned so that the people could exploit them as they wished.
Der Tänzer
Lucie Trenkwitz
Andreas Rellnow decides to leave his troubled parents and pursue an artistic career. As a violin virtuoso, he quickly became popular and a first-class heart-breaker.
When the Dead are Living Again
Dagmar Sunvall/Ingeborg Sunvall
The story concerns a sculptor who visits a fishing village, where he marries a fisherman's daughter who dies in childbirth. Grief-stricken, he returns to the city, where in a Vertigo-like moment he sees his dead wife's lookalike - an opera singer. He later becomes jealous and strangles her with the tresses of his dead wife.
Die Verführten
Mr. Wu
Operette-like oriental fantasy about a forbidden love between en english boy and a chinese girl.
Der Weltspiegel
Es werde Licht! 3. Teil
A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.
Eine Nacht in der Stahlkammer
Rafaela