Elsa Wagner
Born: 1881-01-24 in Reval, Harrien County, Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire [now Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia]
Died: 1975-08-17
Known For: Acting
Biography
Elsa Wagner (January 24, 1881 – August 17, 1975) was a German actress who appeared in numerous theatrical productions and feature films during the 20th century, including 1920's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Born as Elisabeth Karoline Auguste Wagner on 24 January 1881 in Reval, in what is now Tallinn, Estonia, Elsa Wagner pursued training with Maria Spettini in Saint Petersburg, Russia prior to making her acting debut in Berlin, Germany in 1901. In addition to her performances on tour with multiple theater productions, including Faust and Peer Gynt, she went on to secure roles in more than 140 feature films, including Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and Karl Heinz Martin's Von Morgens bis Mitternachts (From Morn to Midnight) in 1920, F. W. Murnau's 1922 Das Brennende Acker (The Burning Earth), Gerhard Lamprecht's Die Buddenbrooks and Wiene's I.N.R.I. in 1923, and E. R. Dupont's 1929 Atlantik.
Filmography
1973
1971
- Unser Willi ist der Beste as Alte Dame
- Seine Majestät Gustav Krause as Emma
1964
- Emil and the Detectives as Nana
- The Monster of London City as Emily the Housekeeper
1960
- The Haunted Castle as Yvonne
- Sweetheart of the Gods as Frau Lengefeld
- Der Geburtstag unserer Ehe as Tante Dolly
1958
- Ihr 106. Geburtstag as Viktoria Burger
1949
- The Night of the Twelfth as Frau Siebel, Lanskis Wirtin
- Marriage of Figaro as Marcellina
1947
- Wozzeck
- No Place for Love as Niobe
- ...and the Sky Above Us as Frau Heise
1946
- Tell the Truth as Schwester Ida
1945
- The Man in the Saddle as Haushälterin
1944
- A Beautiful Day as Hedwigs Wirtin
- Life Calls as Klara
- The Impostor as Gräfin Anastasia
1943
- I'll Carry You in My Arms as Frau Herbst
1941
- The Waitress Anna as Mathilde Noack
1940
- Dream Music as Mme. Holme
- The March to the Führer as Self
- Was wird hier gespielt?
- Die unvollkommene Liebe as Geheimrätin Zenglein
- Hansel and Gretel as Hexe
1939
- Die Geliebte as Frau Geheimrat Peters
- The Leghorn Hat as Baronin Champigny, Pamelas Tante
1938
- Anna Favetti as Frau Stetius
- The Gambler as Marfa, Kinderfrau
- Tanz auf dem Vulkan
- Altes Herz geht auf die Reise
- Großalarm as Frau Köppen
- You and I
- Freight from Baltimore
1937
- Die göttliche Jette
- Der Etappenhase as Tante von Marie
- Gasparone
- A Dangerous Game as Martinis Haushälterin Hildegard
- Daphne and the Diplomat as Frau Wachsmut
- Ball at the Metropol as Frau Selle
1936
- Moscow Shanghai as Frau Iwanowna
- Annemarie. Die Geschichte einer jungen Liebe as Mutter Brinkmann
- Hans in Luck as Mutter
- Moral as Frau Lundt
1935
- Joan of Arc as Frau aus dem Volk
- The Student of Prague as Jarmila
- Barcarole as Giacintas Dienerin Elvira
1934
- An Evening Visit
- Gold
- Music in the Blood as Mathilde
1933
- Dawn
- Was wissen denn Männer as Mutter Kroschelt
1932
- Three from the stamp office as Die Vermieteri
1931
- The Trunks of Mr. O.F. as Sekretärin des Reisebürodirektors
- The Song of Life as Erikas Mutter
1929
- Frühlingsrauschen - Tränen, die ich dir geweint as Friedrich's Mother
- Manolescu, the Prince of Swindlers
- Atlantic as Anna, Heinrich's wife
- Ehe in Not
1928
- Luther as Luthers Mutter
- The Old Fritz II as Prinzeß Amalie
- The Old Fritz as Prinzessin Amalie
1926
- People Among Us as Mrs. Ritter
- Children of No Importance as Frau Martens
1924
1923
- The Buddenbrooks as Sesemi Weichbrodt
1922
1921
- Wandering Souls as Frau Jepantschin
- Mad Love as Richard's mother
1920
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as Landlady (uncredited)
- Die Marchesa d'Arminiani as Assuntas's mother
- From Morning to Midnight
- The Night of Queen Isabeau
1919
- Das Werkzeug des Cosimo as Frau von Esslair
1918
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin as Frau des Bürgermeisters (Mayor's Wife)
- Die Sieger
- The Rosentopf Case as Frau Hintze
- Die blaue Mauritius
1916
- Das wandernde Licht as Frau von Glassner