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Aud
Egede Nissen
1893 - 1974
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. The Norwegian actress Aud Egede Nissen became an actress because of her sisters Gerd Egede Nissen and Ada van Ehlers who both were actresses too. When she met the director Björn Björnsson in 1913 she played in her first movie called "Scenens born - Wenn die Liebe spricht" (13). After that she went to Germany and became soon a demanded actress for the German silent movies. With movies like "Die Filmprinzessin" (14), "Die Flucht vor dem Tode" (15), "Der Trick" (15), "Das Abenteuer des van Dola" (15) and "Homunculus" (16) laid the foundations of her career. Together with her husband and actor Georg Alexander she founded her own film company which produced besides an Aud-Egede-Nissen serial also a Gerd-Egede-Nissen and a Ada-van-Ehlers serial. Ada van Ehlers impersonated the first female detective. Till 1919 she played - most under the direction of Georg Alexander - in nearly 30 movies like "Ein Detektiv-Duell" (17), "Der Kampf mit dem Sturmvogel" (17), "Der Halsschmuck" (18), "Der Todestraum" (18), "Der weinende Dieb" (18), "Die Rachegöttin" (18), "Das Brandmal" (18), "Das Testament des Dr. Hammerstein" (18) and "Die Jugendsünde" (19). In the 20's followed some movies with the most famous directors of this time such as "Sumurun" (20) and "Anna Boleyn" (22) directed by Ernst Lubitsch, "Das Geheimnis der Mumie" (21) directed by Victor Janson, "Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler" (22) directed by Fritz Lang, "Lucrezia Borgia" (22) directed by Richard Oswald and "Phantom" (22) as well as "Die Austreibung" (23) directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Till the end of the 20's she appeared in a row of successful productions like "Die Strasse" (23), "Pietro, der Korsar" (25), "Die Verrufenen" (25), "Menschen untereinander" (26) and "Das Panzergewölbe" (26). After the sound film "Zwischen Nacht und Morgen" (31) she retired from the film business. Her name came up only one time more in the movie "Hansen og Hansen" (41). Aud Egede Nissen was married with the actors Georg
Alexander and Paul Richter.
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