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German actress
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Birth:
19 June 1905(Hamburg, Germany)
Death:
13 May 1983(Munich, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany)
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Biography
Introduction
Erna Sellmer (1905–1983) was a German film actress. She was best known in the English-speaking world for her role as housekeeper Frau Gerber in the 1970s Swiss-Canadian television series George about a St. Bernard dog and its owners. In 1939 Sellmer provided the German language voiceover for Hattie McDaniel in her Academy award winning role in Gone with the Wind.
Selected filmography
- Liberated Hands (1939)
- The Girl from Barnhelm (1940)
- Two in a Big City (1942)
- The Bath in the Barn (1943)
- Port of Freedom (1944)
- I Need You (1944)
- Murderers Among Us (1946)
- Thank You, I'm Fine (1948)
- The Girl from the South Seas (1950)
- The Beautiful Galatea (1950)
- Corinna Schmidt (1951)
- Torreani (1951)
- Holidays From Me (1952)
- Klettermaxe (1952)
- Fritz and Friederike (1952)
- Captain Bay-Bay (1953)
- Secretly Still and Quiet (1953)
- Diary of a Married Woman (1953)
- Hooray, It's a Boy (1953)
- The Flower of Hawaii (1953)
- Spring Song (1954)
- I'll See You at Lake Constance (1956)
- The Heart of St. Pauli (1957)
- Munchhausen in Africa (1958)
- Thirteen Old Donkeys (1958)
- The Night Before the Premiere (1959)
- Homesick for St. Pauli (1963)
- Charley's Uncle (1969)
- Klein Erna auf dem Jungfernstieg (1969)