death_date death_place birth_place imagesize birth_date image article_title name occupation
21 september 1946 berlin , germany prague , austria-hungary 170px 30 may 1871 olga engl 1893 vilimek.jpg olga engl
 olga engl actress
olga engl

olga engl -lrb- 30 may 1871 ; prague -- 21 september 1946 ; berlin -rrb- was an austrian stage and motion picture actress who appeared nearly 200 films during her career in the film industry .
engl was privately educated in a single-sex monastery and began her acting career at the prague conservatory .
in august 1887 she made her stage debut as bertha in the play `` die verschwörung des fiesco zu genua '' in her hometown .
in 1888 , she moved to the city of danzig and performed in the theater from 1889 to 1892 then briefly moved to berlin .
from 1892 to 1895 she performed with the court theater in munich and from 1895 to 1897 in hamburg at the thalia theater , and from 1897 in hanover .
engl made her film debut in the 1911 british silent film `` the adoptive child '' then returned to germany and began appearing in german film productions .
her first major role was in the 1913 carl froelich-directed biopic `` richard wagner '' .
she would work continually throughout the 1910s and appear in a variety of roles for such directors as urban gad and frederic zelnik and opposite such popular actors of the era as emil jannings , alfred abel and lya mara .
by the early 1920s , engl 's career in motion pictures was well established .
in 1922 she appeared in the popular f.w. murnau-directed eerie drama `` phantom '' opposite alfred abel , grete berger , aud egede-nissen , lya de putti and lil dagover .
engl transitioned to the talkie era with relative ease and she often appeared in films as a `` grand dame '' type of character .
some of her most enduring roles of the early talkie era were the 1931 gerhard lamprecht-directed adventure `` emil und die detektive '' and the musical `` der kongreß tanzt '' -lrb- english : `` the congress dances '' -rrb- , also released in 1931 and starring lilian harvey , conrad veidt and lil dagover .
in 1933 she made her english language film debut in the edwin h. knopf and luis trenker-directed `` the rebel '' .
the film starred hungarian actors vilma bánky and victor varconi and was a remake of `` der rebell '' , also featuring engl and released earlier the same year and also directed by trenker .
engl continued to act through the world war ii era -- appearing in ten films between 1939 and 1945 .
her last film appearance before retiring was a small role in the drama `` das alte lied '' , which was released in march 1945 .
in addition to film roles , she continued acting on berlin stages until shortly before her death in 1946 .
