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

1983 Lovesick
as Analyst
1981 Bill
as Ida Miller
1979 All That Jazz
as Old Woman
1976 Marathon Man
as Old Lady on 47th Street
1952 Walk East on Beacon
as Anna Kafer
1945 Son of Lassie
as Old Woman
1944 The Mask of Dimitrios
as Yugoslav Receptionist (uncredited)
1943 Above Suspicion
as Ottilie
1943 Casablanca
as Woman Selling Her Diamonds (uncredited)
1942 Reunion in France
as Unpleasant German Customer (uncredited)
1941 Underground
as Greta Rolf
1941 Out of Darkness
as Madame Rochelle (uncredited)
1940 Escape
as Ruby's Maid Julie (uncredited)
1939 Confessions of a Nazi Spy
as Kassel's Nurse (uncredited)