Irene von Meyendorff
Irene von Meyendorff , born Irene Isabella Margarethe Paulina Caecilia Freiin von Meyendorff (born June 6, 1916 in Reval , Russian Empire , † September 28, 2001 in King's Somborne , Hampshire ), was a German actress of Baltic German origin.
Life
Irene von Meyendorff came from the German-Baltic noble family von Meyendorff . After the October Revolution, she fled with her parents to Germany, where her father died in 1925, and spent her youth in Bremen . After graduating from high school, she volunteered at UFA to become an editor . There she was discovered for the film and immediately played a leading role in the adventure film The Last Four of Santa Cruz, directed by Werner Klingler . Irene von Meyendorff trained as a theater actress and became a very busy film actress.
She embodied mostly elegant women, in the propaganda film Kolberg she was the Prussian queen Luise . After the Second World War, the Baroness Meyendorff shifted the focus of her activities more to the stage. She has made guest appearances in Stuttgart, Zurich, Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg, among others.
Her first marriage was to the doctor Heinz Zahler, the second to the film producer Joachim Matthes, in whose post-war production Untitled Film she took on an episode role. Then she married the Hamburg photographer and journalist Pitt Severin . Actor James Robertson Justice became her fourth husband a few days before his death in 1975. Irene von Meyendorff, who had been a British citizen since 1967, stayed in England. In 1988 she received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film.
Irene von Meyendorff died on September 28, 2001 at the age of 85 in King's Somborne .
Filmography
- 1936: The Last Four from Santa Cruz
- 1936: traitor
- 1938: Traveling people
- 1938: The stars shine
- 1938: two women
- 1939: Schneider Wibbel
- 1939: linen from Ireland
- 1939: We dance around the world
- 1940: Casanova marries
- 1941: Mrs. Luna
- 1941: What Happened That Night?
- 1942: Be the Lord for once
- 1942: Who the gods love
- 1942: Johann
- 1943: Harald arrives at 9 a.m.
- 1944: A little summer tune
- 1945: Kolberg
- 1944: sacrifice
- 1944: Philharmonic
- 1945: The Molander case [unfinished]
- 1947: Untitled film
- 1948: The apple is gone
- 1949: 1 × 1 of marriage
- 1950: Epilogue - The Secret of the Orplid
- 1950: piquancy
- 1952: Poison in the zoo
- 1953: The cousin from Dingsda
- 1954: Portrait of a stranger
- 1954: Captain Vronsky
- 1955: temptation
- 1956: Tender secret
- 1956: Three birches on the heather
- 1957: my husband's girlfriend
- 1960: In the name of a mother
- 1960: the ambassador
- 1960: Paradise [TV]
- 1966: Long legs - long fingers
- 1967: Hell Is Empty
- 1968: Mayerling
Web links
- Irene von Meyendorff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Irene von Meyendorff at filmportal.de
- Pictures by Irene von Meyendorff In: Virtual History
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Irene von Meyendorff. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
- ↑ Naturalization files in The National Archives
- ↑ Irene von Meyendorff, the "First Lady of the glamorous UFA years", is dead. In: DW.com. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
- ↑ Irene von Meyendorff died. In: Spiegel.de. October 22, 2001, accessed February 14, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyendorff, Irene von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyendorff, Irene Isabella Margarethe Paulina Caecilia Freiin von (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-British actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reval , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 2001 |
| Place of death | King's Somborne , Hampshire, England, United Kingdom |