Henny Porten
Born: 1890-01-07 in Magdeburg, Germany
Died: 1960-10-15
Known For: Acting
Biography
Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten (7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent era, and Germany's first major film star. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1906 and 1955.
Filmography
1991
- Lyrical Nitrate as (archive footage)
1955
- The Lady of Scuderi as Fräulein von Scuderi
1954
- Carola Lamberti as Carola Lamberti
1950
- Unknown Sender as Direktorin der Höheren Mädchenschule
1944
- Marriage of Affection as Wilhelmine Buchholz
- The Buchholz Family as Wilhelmine Buchholz
1943
- When the Young Wine Blossoms as Elisa Arvik
- Symphonie eines Lebens as Maria, seine Frau
1941
- The Comedians as Herzogin Amalia von Weißenfels
1939
- War es der im 3. Stock? as Frau Seiderhelm
1938
1935
- Trouble Backstairs as Witwe Bock
1934
- Mother and Child as Anna
1931
- Luise, Queen of Prussia as Königin Luise
- 24 Hours of a Woman's Life as Helga Vanroh
1930
- Gretel and Liesel as Liesel & Gretel, Kohlhiesels Töchter
- Scandalous Eva as Eva Rüttgers
1929
- Mutterliebe as Maria Immermann
- The Mistress and Her Servant as Johanna von Grothe
- Liebfraumilch as Klara
- Die Frau, die jeder liebt, bist du! as Minny
1928
- Violantha as Violantha Zureich
- Die Hotelratte as Anna von Belling
- Lotte as Lotte
- Refuge as Hanne Lorek
- Liebe im Kuhstall as Marischka
1927
- Meine Tante - deine Tante as Helene
- The Long Intermission as Gabriele Amberg
1926
- Rosen aus dem Süden as Dr. Eva Maron
- Wehe wenn sie losgelassen as Cäcilie
- Die Flammen lügen as Gertrud von Gehr
1925
- Tragödie as Gräfin Maria Tamar
- Das Abenteuer der Sybille Brant as Sibylle Brant
- Das goldene Kalb as Magdalena
- Kammermusik as Hilde von Niemeyer
1924
- Countess Donelli
- Inge Larsen as Inge Larsen
- Mother and Child as Lene
- The Film in the Film as Self
- Prater as Annemarie
1923
- I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity as Maria
- Das Geheimnis von Brinkenhof as Maria Brinkenhof
- The Ancient Law as Erzherzogin Elisabeth Theresia
- The Love of a Queen as Die Königin
- The Jew of Mestri as Porzia (Beatrice)
1922
- She and the Three as "Sie", Lia Lona, Schauspielerin
- Frauenopfer as Maria
1921
- Die Geierwally as Wally
- Backstairs as The Maid
1920
- Anna Boleyn as Anna Boleyn, his Niece
- Monika Vogelsang as Monica Vogelsang
- Kohlhiesel's Daughters as Liesel und Gretel Kohlhiesel
- Die goldene Krone as Marianne
1919
- Rose Bernd as Rose Bernd
- Die Schuld as Maria Helga Nansen
- Irrungen
- Her Sport as Adelina von Gentz
- Die Fahrt ins Blaue as Wanda Lossen
- Die beiden Gatten der Frau Ruth as Ruth Elvstedt
1918
- Countess Kitchenmaid as Karoline Blume / Gräfin Gyllenhand
- Die Sieger
- Die Heimkehr des Odysseus as Josepha
- Das Geschlecht derer von Ringwall
- Agnes Arnau und ihre drei Freier as Agnes Arnau
- Das Maskenfest des Lebens
- Die Dame, der Teufel und die Probiermamsell as Die Probiermamsell
- Auf Probe gestellt as Gräfin Marlene von Steinitz
- Die blaue Laterne
1917
- The Giant's Fist as Martina von Brake
- Hann, Hein und Henny
- Gefangene Seele
- Die Ehe der Luise Rohrbach
- Die Claudi vom Geiserhof
- Der Liebesbrief der Königin as Königin von Illyrien
- Die Prinzessin von Neutralien as Ethel Vandergold (daughter)
- Christa Hartungen as Christa Hartungen
1916
- The Robber Bride as Mädchen
- Abseits vom Glück as Silvia Aguzzi / Ruth Aguzzi
- Der Schirm mit dem Schwan
- Das große Schweigen as Margarete Lasson
- Der wandernde Blumentopf
- Das wandernde Licht as Anna von Glassner
1915
- Alexandra as Alexandra
- Das Ende vom Liede
- Nur nicht heiraten
1914
1913
- The Minister's Daughter as Karla
- Ein Mädchen zu verschenken as Prologue
- Erloschenes Licht
- Eva
- Komtesse Ursel as Komtesse Ursel
1912
- Kämpfende Herzen
- Schatten des Lebens
- Adressatin verstorben as Juliane Crusius
- Maskierte Liebe
- Specter of the Sea
1911
- Das Liebesglück der Blinden as Blindes Mädchen
- Outlawed as Brigitte
- Tragödie eines Streiks as Arbeiterfrau
- Forget About Luck
- Mütter, verzaget nicht