Lien Deyers
Lien Deyers , actually Nicolina Dijjers Spanier (born November 5, 1909 in Amsterdam , † after March 1982), was a Dutch actress .
Life
From the age of 13 she was brought up in a boarding school in Lausanne. At the autograph day of a film magazine in Vienna, the stranger spoke to the director Fritz Lang , who then made test shots with her in Berlin. Since these turned out to his satisfaction, he gave her a leading role in his film Spies .
Lien Deyers quickly made a career and played in a total of 32 silent and sound films within eight years. There were many popular comedies and romance films as well as dramas such as Spione (1928) by Fritz Lang and Karl Hartl's SF drama Gold (1934).
In 1935 she followed her husband, the Jewish director and producer Alfred Zeisler , to emigrate to England and later to the USA. There she could not find her way back to film and after the divorce from Zeisler ran a shop for fashion accessories. After several failed marriages, she finally got on the wrong track and was arrested several times for public drunkenness and drifting around. For a long time, a written appeal for help that Deyers sent in September 1964 to Paul Kohner , her former agent and former production manager from their days in Berlin , from the Clark County Jail in Las Vegas , was her last sign of life.
It was later rumored by other emigrants in Los Angeles that she was seen on Santa Monica beach digging earthworms to sell to anglers. Her last sign of life was a greeting card to her former film partner Heinz Rühmann on his 80th birthday in March 1982.
Filmography
- 1928: spies
- 1928: House number 17
- 1928: The saint and her fool
- 1929: I live for you
- 1929: The rush of spring
- 1929: Captain Fracasse
- 1930: The Don Cossack Song
- 1930: Haunted people
- 1930: Next, please
- 1930: Rose Monday
- 1930: The jumping jack
- 1930: the old song
- 1931: The men around Lucie
- 1931: The man who is looking for his murderer
- 1931: His reason for divorce
- 1932: Your Highness is having fun
- 1932: Hasenklein can't help it
- 1932: Melody of Love
- 1932: The company in love
- 1933: Isn't My Husband Fabulous?
- 1933: laughing heirs
- 1933: The one from the Lower Rhine
- 1933: The trip into the countryside
- 1934: The double groom
- 1934: I sing myself into your heart
- 1934: gold
- 1934: Carnival and love
- 1934: The cousin from Dingsda
- 1935: A whole guy
- 1935: I love all women
- 1935: Punks comes from America
- 1935: The Blessed Excellency
literature
- Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 138.
Web links
- Lien Deyers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Images by Lien Deyers In: Virtual History
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Deyers, Lien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th November 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |