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Gisela "Gila" Freiin von Weitershausen (born 21 March 1944) is a German actress. Born in Trebnitz (today Trzebnica), Lower Silesia, Germany (today Poland) into an aristocratic family, she has three brothers and two sisters and is the great-granddaughter of former German Chancellor Georg Graf von Hertling. Gila von Weitershausen became popular in the late 1960s when she appeared in German comedy films, for example alongside Uschi Glas. One of the films from that period about Swinging Sixties Bavaria, Engelchen, gave her the nickname Engelchen ("Little Angel"), which was used by the tabloid press for decades. In one of her best-known roles, she played a prostitute in the 1971 film Murmur of the Heart. She also appeared several times as "Rowena" in the British TV series Arthur of the Britons. By common consensus one of her best performances was in Circle of Deceit (1981), a film directed...
Known for
Scene of the CrimeSeries • 1970
The Old FoxSeries • 1977
Polizeiruf 110Series • 1971
SOKO KölnSeries • 2003
DerrickSeries • 1974
A Case For TwoSeries • 1981
Das TraumschiffSeries • 1981
Murder in the MountainsSeries • 2001
The Country DoctorSeries • 1987
Für alle Fälle StefanieSeries • 1995
Inga LindströmSeries • 2004
Schlosshotel OrthSeries • 1996
Liebling KreuzbergSeries • 1986
Der Bulle von TölzSeries • 1996
Master Eder and his PumucklSeries • 1982
Kreuzfahrt ins GlückSeries • 2007
Weißblaue GeschichtenSeries • 1984
St. Pauli-LandungsbrückenSeries • 1979
Murmur of the HeartMovie • 1971
TrenchcoatMovie • 1983
Circle of DeceitMovie • 1981
Itinerary of a Spoiled ChildMovie • 1988
Bloody FridayMovie • 1972
Zur Hölle mit den PaukernMovie • 1968