Lisa Golm ( Luise Schmertzler, ; 10 April 1891 – 6 January 1964) was a German actress who emigrated to America and appeared in a number of Hollywood films as a character actress.Keaney p.191Capua p.157Andreychuk p.61 Golm made her first screen appearance in the 1939 film Confessions of a Nazi Spy. She also featured on American television, appearing on shows such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Third Man and The Twilight Zone.
Biography On 6 November 1918, she married Ernest Otto Ferdinand Golm in Berlin, Germany and later entered the United States at New York City on 3 December 1937. She was naturalized as an American citizen on 24 September 1943, when a resident of Los Angeles.
Death Golm died on 6 January 1964, aged 72, in Tel Aviv, Israel. She was buried in the Haifa Cemetery in Israel. She was survived by her sister, Jennie Schmertzler.
Selected filmography
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) as Mrs. Anna Westphal (uncredited) Escape (1940) as Anna So Ends Our Night (1941) as The Pale Woman, Ruth's roommate Journey for Margaret (1942) as Frau Weber Woman of the Year (1942) as Yugoslav Consul's Wife (uncredited) Calling Dr. Death (1943) as Marion's Mother Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas (1943) as Frau Spitz (uncredited) Mission to Moscow (1943) as Train Passenger Arriving Late (uncredited) Above Suspicion (1943) as Frau Schulz (uncredited) Madame Curie (1943) as Lucille (uncredited) The Seventh Cross (1944) as Frau Hinkel (uncredited) Shadow of a Woman (1946) as Emma Without Reservations (1946) as Alma (uncredited) High Wall (1947) as Dr. Golm (uncredited) Possessed (1947) as Elsie Cry Wolf (1947) as Mrs. Laidell (uncredited) A Foreign Affair (1948) as German (uncredited) Homecoming (1948) as Anna (uncredited) Little Women (1949) as Mrs. Hummel (uncredited) Anna Lucasta (1949) as Theresa The Great Sinner (1949) as Elderly Lady (uncredited) The Doctor and the Girl (1949) as Hetty The Great Gatsby (1949) as Pamela's Nurse (uncredited) East Side, West Side (1949) as Josephine The Happy Years (1950) as Connie's Maid (uncredited) The Hoodlum (1951) as Mrs. Lubeck Payment on Demand (1951) as Molly A Place in the Sun (1951) as Eastman's Maid (uncredited) The Blue Veil (1951) as Elsa (uncredited) Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) as Mrs. Coffman My Pal Gus (1952) as Anna Invitation (1952) as Agnes, the Maid The Merry Widow (1952) as Queen (uncredited) Bad for Each Other (1953) as Mrs. Marzano (uncredited) Ride the High Iron (1956) as Mrs. Danielchik Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957) (Season 2 Episode 17: "My Brother, Richard") as Mrs. Kopeck Monkey on My Back (1957) as Barney's Mother The Twilight Zone (1960) (Season 2 Episode 2: "The Man in the Bottle") as Mrs. Gumley
References
Bibliography Andreychuk, Ed. Burt Lancaster: A Filmography and Biography. McFarland, 2015. Capua, Michelangelo. Janet Leigh: A Biography. McFarland, 2013. Keaney, Michael F. Film Noir Guide: 745 Films of the Classic Era, 1940-1959. McFarland, 2003. McLaughlin, Robert. We'll Always Have the Movies: American Cinema during World War II. University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
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