Erna Sellmer


Erna Elisabeth Dorothea Sellmer was a German film actress. She was best known in the English-speaking world for her role as housekeeper Frau Gerber in the 1970s Swiss-Canadian television series George about a St. Bernard dog and its owners. In 1939 Sellmer provided the German language voiceover for Hattie McDaniel in her Academy award-winning role in Gone with the Wind.

Selected filmography

Liberated Hands The Girl from Barnhelm The Great Love Two in a Big City The Bath in the Barn Port of Freedom I Need You Murderers Among Us Thank You, I'm Fine Insolent and in Love The Girl from the South Seas The Beautiful Galatea Corinna Schmidt Torreani Holiday From Myself Klettermaxe Fritz and Friederike Captain Bay-Bay Secretly Still and Quiet Diary of a Married Woman Hooray, It's a Boy