Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
July 28, 1903
Place of Birth:
Bochum, Germany
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Lotte Palfi Andor
Biography
Lotte Palfi Andor was an aspiring Jewish stage actress in Germany and had to flee in 1934 with her first husband, the cutter (film editor) Victor Palfi, after the Nazis came to power. She played only bit parts in Hollywood, many of them uncredited. Her most memorable roles were in Casablanca (1942), where she was "the woman who has to sell her diamonds" in order to escape the Nazis and in Marathon Man (1976), where she was "the woman on 47th street," chasing a Nazi who is trying to escape with robbed diamonds.
In 1943, she married the German-American actor Wolfgang Zilzer (stage name: Paul Andor), who had been the "man with expired papers" in Casablanca (1942). The couple divorced in old age when the American-born Zilzer wanted to die in Germany and his wife refused to return to her native country.
She died on 07/08/1991 in New York City after a long illness.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Lovesick | Analyst |
| 1981 | Bill | Ida Miller |
| 1979 | All That Jazz | Old Woman |
| 1976 | Marathon Man | Old Lady on 47th Street |
| 1952 | Walk East on Beacon | Anna Kafer |
| 1945 | Son of Lassie | Old Woman |
| 1944 | The Mask of Dimitrios | Yugoslav Receptionist (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Above Suspicion | Ottilie |
| 1943 | Casablanca | Woman Selling Her Diamonds (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Reunion in France | Unpleasant German Customer (uncredited) |
| 1941 | Underground | Greta Rolf |
| 1941 | Out of Darkness | Madame Rochelle (uncredited) |
| 1940 | Escape | Ruby's Maid Julie (uncredited) |
| 1939 | Confessions of a Nazi Spy | Kassel's Nurse (uncredited) |
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