Ursula Grabley

Ursula Grabley
Born
Margarete Marie Feodora Grabley

(1908-12-08)8 December 1908
Woltersdorf, Brandenburg, German Empire
Died3 April 1977(1977-04-03) (aged 68)
Brilon, West Germany
OccupationActress
Years active1929-1977
Spouse(s)Viktor de Kowa (1926-1941) (divorced)
Kurt Gumpert (1968-1977) (her death)[1]

Ursula Grabley (8 December 1908 – 3 April 1977) was a German actress.[2] She appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1929 and 1977. Her acting career started during the late silent era and blossomed in the sound era that soon followed. The cast of the 1929 silent film Katharina Knie included Ursula and her then husband Viktor de Kowa.

She trained as a ballet dancer. Her film career stalled during the war years after a private altercation with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. From the 1950s onwards, she often played motherly figures in films and on television. She provided the German voice for Lucille Ball. Ursula died of a stroke during a theatrical tour of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".[3]

Selected filmography

References

  1. ^ "Google Translate". translate.google.com. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Ursula Grabley". filmportal. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Ursula Grabley - Trivia". IMDb. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
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