Lisa Golm

{{Short description|German character actress (1891–1964)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Lisa Golm

| native_name = ליסה גולם

| native_name_lang = he

| image = Lisa Golm in The Hoodlum (1951).jpg

| image_size =

| caption = Golm in The Hoodlum (1951)

| birth_name = Luise Schmertzler

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|04|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Berlin, German Empire

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1964|01|06|1891|04|10|df=yes}}

| death_place = Tel Aviv, Israel

| resting_place = Haifa Cemetery, Israel

| occupation = Actress

| years_active = 1939–1962

| spouse = Ernest Golm
({{abbr|m.|married}} 1918; {{abbr|died}} 1962)

}}

Lisa Golm ({{nee}} Luise Schmertzler, {{langx|he|לואיז שמרצלר}}; 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/901728113:3998 |url-access=subscription |title=Lisa Golm in the California, U.S., Federal Naturalization Records |publisher=Federal Naturalization Records |date=19 July 1938 |access-date=17 November 2022}} She was naturalized as an American citizen on 24 September 1943, when a resident of Los Angeles.{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/7924257:1629 |title=Lisa Golm in the U.S., Naturalization Record Indexes, 1791-1992 |url-access=subscription |publisher=Naturalization Record Indexes |via=Ancestry.com |date=24 September 1943 |access-date=17 November 2022}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/28598:1616 |title=Lisa Golm in the U.S., Reports of Deaths of American Citizens Abroad, 1835-1974 |publisher=American Embassy |via=Ancestry.com |url-access=subscription |date=27 January 1964 |access-date=17 November 2022}}

Selected filmography

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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.