Ruth Grossi

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Ruth Anna Grossi (born August 26, 1926 in Gelsenkirchen-Buer ) is a German actress .

Life

Ruth Grossi completed a ballet and singing training and took acting lessons from Erich Weihe . She first played in Gelsenkirchen and Flensburg theaters and later had engagements in Hamburg at the Kammerspiele, the Thalia Theater and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus . In the 1950s she received offers in television and entered a. a. in John Walker writes to his mother (1954), in The Hussars Come and Fledermaus Squadron (both 1955). In 1958 she was seen as Bianca in a television adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Othello . The year before, the approximately 1.65 m tall actress had shot her first feature film with The Unexcused Hour . She got a bigger supporting role in the crime film Mörderspiel (1961) directed by Helmut Ashley , where she acted as the reserved, gentle wife of an alcoholic. However, there were no further film offers afterwards. It was only towards the end of the 1970s that she got the opportunity to reappear on the screen with the soft sex films Two Danes in Lederhosen and Zum Gasthof der Spritzigen Mädchen .

The Gelsenkirchen native never made her big breakthrough. Not infrequently she had to be content with the smallest supporting roles in various television productions, in the opening credits of which her name was not even mentioned.

Ruth Grossi also worked in various film cases of the case number XY ... unsolved and is occasionally also active as a voice actress.

Filmography

Radio plays

  • 1953: The bitter waters of Lapland

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 229.
  2. ↑ See Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorfs international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 547.
personal data
SURNAME Grossi, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grossi, Ruth Anna (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Gelsenkirchen-Buer