Catherine Hessling
Born: 1900-06-22 in Moronvilliers, Marne, France
Died: 1979-09-28
Known For: Acting
Biography
Catherine Hessling, born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling, was a French stage and screen actress and the first wife of film director Jean Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the acting profession and withdrawing from public life in the mid-1930s.
Filmography
1978
- Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma as Self (archive footage)
1935
- Crime and Punishment as Elisabeth
1934
1933
- High and Low as Mademoiselle Paula
1930
- Little Red Riding Hood as Le petit chaperon rouge
- The Pursuit of Happiness as Catherine
1928
- The Little Match Girl as Karen
- The Sad Sack as L'institutrice
1927
- Sea Fever
- Charleston Parade as Parisian savage
- Backbiters as Catherine Ferrand
- Yvette as Yvette
- La P’tite Lili
1926
- Nana as Nana
1925
- Whirlpool of Fate as Virginia Rosaert