Ingeborg von Kusserow
Ingeborg Maria von Kusserow , also Ingeborg Wells (born January 28, 1919 in Wollstein , † April 14, 2014 in Hove , Sussex ), was a German actress .
Life
Ingeborg Kusserow came from an old noble family from East Elbe. As a child, she received dance and ballet training. From the early 1930s she appeared at the Berlin Opera as well as at the Metropol-Theater and Schlossparktheater . She made her film debut in 1936 in the film Das Hofkonzert . In supporting and occasionally leading roles, she portrayed young, capricious women and girls from society.
In November 1941 she married Count Percy Welsburg. In 1947 she left Germany with her husband and settled in Great Britain, where she continued her film career from 1950 under the pseudonym Ingeborg Wells , which was based on the name of her husband. In English cinema she mostly played foreign women. Her most important role at the time was that of the maid Hebe in Raoul Walsh's The King's Admiral .
In 1963 Ingeborg von Kusserow withdrew into private life. In 1965 Percy von Welsburg and Ingeborg von Kusserow divorced. The couple had a son. In 1968 she married Kenneth Slingsby-Fahn († 2007).
Filmography
- 1936: The court concert
- 1937: When women hate
- 1937: love can lie
- 1937: Daphne and the diplomat
- 1937: My friend Barbara
- 1937: Riddle about Beate
- 1937: Little man, big
- 1938: Last night's girl
- 1938: What to do, Sybille
- 1938: One night in May
- 1939: Three NCOs
- 1939: Renate in a quartet
- 1939: At the last minute
- 1940: Heart without a home
- 1940: the dark point
- 1940: counterfeiter
- 1941: Light muse
- 1944: The concert
- 1944: the big fall
- 1946: Tell the truth
- 1951: The King's Admiral (Captain Horatio Hornblower)
- 1951: Chelsea Story
- 1951: One Wild Oat
- 1951: Death Is a Number
- 1952: The Secret People
- 1953: Women of Twilight
- 1953: The Accused
- 1956: Port of Escape
- 1956: House of Blackmail
- 1957: The bridge of retribution (Across the Bridge)
- 1960: Some Talk of Alexander (TV)
- 1963: The Impostor (TV)
literature
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 522.
Web links
- Ingeborg von Kusserow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ingeborg von Kusserow at filmportal.de
- Ingeborg von Kusserow at cyranos.ch
- Pictures by Ingeborg von Kusserow In: Virtual History
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kusserow, Ingeborg von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kusserow, Ingeborg Maria von (full name); Wells, Ingeborg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wollstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 2014 |
| Place of death | Hove , Sussex |