Catherine Hessling
Acting
June 22, 1900
Died September 28, 1979 (79 years old)
Moronvilliers, Marne, France
15
Acting Credits
Biography
Catherine Hessling, born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling, was a French stage and screen actress and the first wife of film director Jean Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the acting profession and withdrawing from public life in the mid-1930s.
Known For
Filmography
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self (archive footage)
9
Crime and Punishment
1935
as Elisabeth
7
Coralie and Company
1934
8
High and Low
1933
as Mademoiselle Paula
5.7
Little Red Riding Hood
1930
as Le petit chaperon rouge
7
The Pursuit of Happiness
1930
as Catherine
8
The Little Match Girl
1928
as Karen
6.9
The Sad Sack
1928
as L'institutrice
6.7
La P’tite Lili
1927
as Lili
5.1
Charleston Parade
1927
as Parisian savage
6
Backbiters
1927
as Catherine Ferrand
6.8
Yvette
1927
as Yvette
8
Sea Fever
1927
6.6
Nana
1926
as Nana
6.7
Whirlpool of Fate
1925
as Virginia Rosaert
6.6