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Valeska Stock


1887 - 1966

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The actress Valeska Stock began her career as a ballet dancer at the Stadttheater Breslau where she appeared regular from 1902. She soon changed to the acting she she became a busy stage actress in Mainz, Breslau and finally in Berlin where she acted at the "Kleines Theater".

In Berlin she entered the film business and she played her first movie role in "Der bekannte Unbekannte" (22).

She impersonated numerous other support roles in the next years and to her movies belong "Vorderhaus und Hinterhaus" (25), "Die Mühle von Sanssouci" (26), "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick" (26), "Die Weber" (27), "Der Kampf des Donald Westhof" (27) and "Der Raub der Sabinerinnen" (28).

She continued her film career in the 30s but remained limited to small support roles.
To her well-known works of those years belong "Dolly macht Karriere" (30), "Die Koffer des Herrn O.F." (31) and "So ein Mädel vergisst man nicht" (32).

From 1934 she appeared in the than popular short movies by the majority from 1934, only rarely she acted in feature movies again.
Till to the end of war she played roles in the movies "Die Liebe siegt" (34), "Künstlerliebe" (35), "Das Schloss in Flandern" (36), "Die unheimliche Helene" (36), "Der Maulkorb" (38), "5 Millionen suchen einen Erben" (38), "Ich verweigere die Aussage" (39) and "Fritze Bollmann wollte angeln" (43).

After the war she retired from the film business. Only in Wolfgang Staudte's "Rotation" (49) she impersonated a role again as a midwife. It was her only postwar movie. 

 

Other movies with Valeska Stock:
Halbseide (25) Fiaker Nr. 13 (26) Der Prinz und die Tänzerin (26) Der Sieg der Jugend (27) Arme kleine Colombine (27) Männer vor der Ehe (27) Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille (28) Mädchenschicksale (28) Fräulein Fähnrich (29) Der Schuss im Tonfilmatelier (30) Die lustigen Musikanten (30) Sein Scheidungsgrund (31) Mausi (34) Am Telefon wird gewünscht (34) Adam, Eva und der Apfel (34) Nach dem Klingeln – Bitte drücken (35) Den Zahn lass Dir man ziehen (35) Unter dem Pantoffel (36) Tante Clementine (36) Standesamt 10.1 Uhr (36) Potpourri (36) Klein, aber mein (36) Die Posaune (37) Augenzeugen (37) Kriminalfall Erich Lemke (38) Schwarzfahrt ins Glück (38) Notgemeinschaft Hinterhaus (39) Die Sache mit dem Hermelin (39) Dienst am Kunden (40)


 
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