Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel

Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel in Heidi (1968).
Born	(1900-04-05)5 April 1900 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	24 December 1994(1994-12-24) (aged 94) Vienna, Austria
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1921–1988
Spouse(s)	Berthold Viertel (1949-1953, his death)

Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel (5 April 1900 – 24 December 1994) was an Austrian actress who started her career in Germany during the 1920s. Under the Nazi regime she emigrated to the United States, where she appeared on the Broadway and in a few Hollywood movies. She later returned to Germany where she worked with numerous successful theatres of Berlin, among them Fritz Kortner's Berliner Bühnen. Neumann-Viertel was also a notable character actress in films and television, although she seldomly played a leading role there. She retired in the late 1980s after nearly 70 years of acting. Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel was the second wife of film director Berthold Viertel.

Selected filmography

• Sister Veronika (1927)
• Doña Juana (1927)
• The Murderer Dimitri Karamazov (1931)
• M (1931)
• Donogoo Tonka (1936)
• The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943)
• The House on 92nd Street (1945)
• The Eternal Waltz (1954)
• The Secret Ways (1961)
• Heidi (1968)
• Cabaret (1972)
• Kara Ben Nemsi Effendi (1973)
• Derrick - Season 5, Episode 8: "Solo für Margarete" (1978)
• The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
• Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer? (1988)

References

• Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel on IMDb