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name: "Elsa Janssen"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 October 1883"
died: "5 February 1969"
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average_as: "actor"
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updated: "2026-09-20T00:51:03.993131+00:00"
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# Elsa Janssen

Actor. Born 4 October 1883 in Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Died 5 February 1969.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 October 1883, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- **Died:** 5 February 1969
- **Also known as:** Else Jannsen
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3051723, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0418155/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/99750

## Streaming the US now

- **Pluto TV:** [*The Pride of the Yankees*](https://film.one/film/the-pride-of-the-yankees.md) (71)

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## Biography

Elsa Janssen was a German-born American actress. Born on 5 October 1883 in Düsseldorf, Germany, she appeared in Hollywood films from the early 1930s to the late 1940s, often in supporting roles as mothers or European characters, sometimes credited as Else Janssen.

She is known for her performance as Christina 'Mom' Gehrig in *The Pride of the Yankees* (1942). Other credits include *Blonde Venus* (1932), *Dracula's Daughter* (1936), *Claudia* (1943) and *Song of Love* (1947). Janssen died on 5 February 1969 in Los Angeles, California.

*Sources: imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Pride of the Yankees* (1942), Fi1m 71, as Christina 'Mom' Gehrig — [page](https://film.one/film/the-pride-of-the-yankees.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Song of Love* (1947), as Bertha
- *Claudia and David* (1946), as Bertha
- *Dillinger* (1945), as Mrs. Otto
- *3 Is a Family* (1944), as Adelaide
- *His Butler's Sister* (1943), as Severina
- *Claudia* (1943), as Bertha
- *So Proudly We Hail* (1943), as Mrs. Larson (Uncredited)
- *They Came to Blow Up America* (1943), as Mama Henrietta Steelman
- *Commandos Strike at Dawn* (1942), as Anna's Mother, Mrs. Korstad (uncredited)
- *The Pride of the Yankees* (1942), as Christina 'Mom' Gehrig — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/the-pride-of-the-yankees.md)
- *The Fatal Hour* (1940), as Hotel Maid
- *It Could Happen to You* (1937), as Mrs. Clavish
- *Dracula's Daughter* (1936), as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
- *A Dog of Flanders* (1935), as The Cogez' Maid (uncredited)
- *Wednesday's Child* (1934), as Martha
- *Journal of a Crime* (1934), as Frau Winterstein
- *Blonde Venus* (1932), as Gossiping Tenant (uncredited)
- *The Great Lover* (1931), as Mme. Neumann Baumbach

## Gallery

- ![Elsa Janssen](https://film.one/media/person/1233214/gallery-ebdb31961768.jpg) Elsa Janssen — unknown (20th Century Fox), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Elsa_Janssen_in_Claudia.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Elsa Janssen](https://film.one/media/person/1233214/gallery-085c524617ee.jpg) Elsa Janssen — Image via TMDB

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