Ruth Weyher

Ruth Ellen Weyher (born May 28, 1901 in Neumark , West Prussia , † January 27, 1983 in Munich ) was a German silent film actress.

Life

The daughter of the Chief Justice Inspector Paul Ferdinand Weyher and his wife Lätitia Theone geb. Schulze grew up in Danzig until she moved to Halle with her parents and brother in 1914 . At the age of 16 she came to Berlin and attended the drama school of the Deutsches Theater from April 1919 to July 1920 .

Ruth Weyher received her first stage engagement in Munich. In 1919 she got her first film role. She played adventurous and devoted women in numerous entertainment films. Occasionally she received leading roles such as the title role in the operetta film Die chaste Susanne in 1926 .

In 1928 she founded her own film production company, Ruth Weyher-Film GmbH. After a single film, What's up with Nanette with her in the title role, she stopped working as a producer. On July 2, 1932, she married the Munich publisher and book printer owner Dr. Hans Geiselberger and ended her career.

Filmography

Ruth Weyher as wife in the silent film Shadows

• 1919: Maria Schnee's shepherd
• 1920: The fortune teller of Paris
• 1921: The fire in the Mascotte Varieté
• 1921: confession of women
• 1921: The experiences of a chambermaid
• 1922: Dying Peoples
• 1922: Divan cats
• 1923: Demon Circus
• 1923: The top of society
• 1923: Adam and Eve
• 1923: The gray power
• 1923: shadow. A hallucination at night
• 1923: The sailor Perugino
• 1923: The old law
• 1923: people and masks
• 1924: the creature
• 1924: Royal love
• 1924: Comedy of the Heart
• 1925: A Midsummer Night's Dream
• 1925: Reveille, the great awakening
• 1925: The curse of the evil deed
• 1925: The fire dancer
• 1925: marriage advertisements
• 1925: The first estate. The big capitalist (2 parts)
• 1925: women and banknotes
• 1926: secrets of a soul
• 1926: Lives in danger
• 1926: Chaste Susanne
• 1926: The flames lie
• 1927: The impostor
• 1927: Facade ghost
• 1927: Climbing maxi
• 1927: One against all
• 1927: Milak, the Greenland hunter
• 1927: Beautiful women's toys
• 1927: The rough shirt
• 1927: The woman in the closet
• 1927: Every man needs a little friend
• 1927: The Apaches of Paris
• 1927: The great stranger
• 1928: Dr. Monnier and the women
• 1928: Circumstantial evidence
• 1928: What's wrong with Nanette?
• 1929: Bobby, the gasoline boy
• 1929: father and son
• 1929: Greetings, my beautiful Sorrento
• 1930: In the fight with the underworld

Web links

• Ruth Weyher in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Pictures by Ruth Weyher In: Virtual History
• Ruth Weyher at cyranos.ch