Aud Richter (30 May 1893 – 15 November 1974) was a Norwegian

Norwegians

Norwegians constitute both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway. They share a common culture and speak the Norwegian language. Norwegian people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in United States, Canada and Brazil.-History:Towards the end of the 3rd...

 actress, appearing in many early 20th century German films.

Biography

Born in Bergen, Norway in 1893, Egede-Nissen was the daughter of Norwegian politician Adam Egede-Nissen

Adam Egede-Nissen

Adam Egede-Nissen , Norwegian Communist politician. Born in Levanger and he started his political involvement in the Liberal Party of Norway and was elected to the Storting in 1900. In 1905 he broke with the Liberal Party and joined the Norwegian Labour Party and became one of its leaders...

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Aud made her acting debut in Danish director Bjørn Bjørnson

Bjørn Bjørnson

Bjørn Bjørnson was a Norwegian stage actor and theatre director.-Biography:He was born in Kristiania, the son of author Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson and his wife Karoline Bjørnson. In 1876, he was admitted as a student at the Stern Conservatory operated by Julius Stern in Berlin, Germany...

's 1913 film Scenens børn. She worked on her first German film one year later. In 1916, she appeared in Otto Rippert's six-part sci-fi serial Homunculus

Homunculus

Homunculus is a term used, generally, in various fields of study to refer to any representation of a human being. Historically, it referred specifically to the concept of a miniature though fully formed human body, for example, in the studies of alchemy and preformationism...

. Also that year, she starred as the character "Christine Daaé

Christine Daaé

Christine Daaé is the main female character in Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera , the young singer with whom the main character Erik, the Phantom of the Opera falls in love.- Character history :...

" in the now lost film

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

 Ernst Matray-directed German adaptation of Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera , which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starring Lon...

's novel The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in "Le Gaulois" from September 23, 1909 to January 8, 1910...

opposite Swedish actor Nils Olaf Chrisander

Nils Olaf Chrisander

Nils Olaf Chrisander was a Swedish actor and film director in the early part of the twentieth-century.Born Waldemar Olaf Chrisander in Stockholm, Sweden, Chrisander's first screen appearances as an actor were in German and Swedish silent films in the mid-1910s...

.

She worked with many noted directors of early German cinema, including Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch

Ernst Lubitsch was a German-born film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch."In 1947 he received an Honorary Academy Award for his...

, Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...

, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Friedrich Wilhelm "F. W." Murnau was one of the most influential German film directors of the silent era, and a prominent figure in the expressionist movement in German cinema during the 1920s...

, Karl Grune

Karl Grune

Karl Grune was an Austrian film director and writer who made many silent films in the 1920s.Grune was born in Vienna, where he later attended drama school...

, and Gerhard Lamprecht

Gerhard Lamprecht

Gerhard Lamprecht was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed 63 films between 1920 and 1958. He also wrote for 26 films between 1918 and 1958...

. Egede-Nissen's German film career came to an end with the advent of sound film

Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially...

s, though she did return to Norway to make two films there in the 1940s.

Egede-Nissen was married to actors Georg Alexander and later Paul Richter

Paul Richter

Paul Richter was an Austrian film actor. He married the actress Aud Egede-Nissen and was stepfather to Georg Richter.-Selected filmography:* The Indian Tomb * Die Nibelungen * The Sorceror...

. She had a son with Richter, Georg Richter, who also became an actor and film producer.

Her four younger sisters and two younger brother all became actors as well: Gerd Grieg

Gerd Grieg

Gerd Grieg, née Egede-Nissen was a Norwegian actress.She was born in Bergen. Her parents were Georga Wilhelma Ellertsen and politician Adam Egede-Nissen . Her siblings Aud Egede-Nissen, Ada Kramm, Stig Egede-Nissen, Lill Egede-Nissen and Gøril Havrevold became an actors as well...

 (1895–1988), Ada Kramm

Ada Kramm

Ada Kramm was a Norwegian stage and film actress whose career spanned more than six decades.-Early life and career:...

 (1899–1981), Stig Egede-Nissen (1907–1988), Oscar Egede-Nissen (1903–1976), Gøril Havrevold (1914–1992) and Lill Egede-Nissen (1909–1962).

Aud Egede-Nissen died in Oslo on 15 November 1974 at the age of 81.

Selected filmography

• Die Filmprinzessin (1914)
• Mobilmachung in der Küche (1914)
• Das Geheimnis der Mumie (1915)
• Das Gespenst im Opernhaus
  The Phantom of the Opera (adaptations)
  There have been many literary and dramatic works based on Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, ranging from light operas to films to children's books...
  
  (1916)
• Homunculus (1916)
• Die Lieblingsfrau des Maharadscha (1917)
• Sumurun (1920)
• Das Geheimnis der Chrysanthemen (1920)
• Anna Boleyn
  Anna Boleyn (film)
  Anna Boleyn is a 1920 German historical film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. It starred Henny Porten as Anne Boleyn and Emil Jannings as King Henry VIII.-Cast:*Henny Porten as Anna Boleyn*Emil Jannings as Henry VIII*Paul Hartmann as Sir Henry Norris...
  
  (1920)
• Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
  Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler
  Dr. Mabuse the Gambler is the first film in the Dr. Mabuse series, about the character Doctor Mabuse who featured in the novels of Norbert Jacques. It was directed by Fritz Lang and released in 1922. The film is silent and filmed mostly 16 frames per second. It would be followed by The Testament...
  
  (1921)
• Lucrezia Borgia (1922)
• Phantom (1922)
• Die Austreibung (1923)
• Die Straße
  Die Straße
  Die Straße , also known as The Street, is a German film, directed by Karl Grune.-Cast:*Eugen Klöpfer ... Lower middle-class man*Lucie Höflich ... Wife of man*Anton Edthofer ... Pimp*Aud Egede-Nissen ... Harlot...
  
  (1923)
• Die Verrufenen (1925)
• Menschen untereinander (1926)
• Der König der Mittelstürmer (1927)
• Zwischen Nacht und Morgen (1931)

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