- Date de naissance : 14 juillet 1904
- Date de décès : 24 septembre 1993
- Nationalité :
United States - Activités : Acteur
- Personne
Zita Johann (born Elisabeth Johann; 14 July 1904 – 24 September 1993) was an Austrian-American actress best known for her performance in Karl Freund's 1932 film The Mummy with Boris Karloff.
Life and career
A German-speaking Banat Swabian, Zita Johann was born Elisabeth Johann in the village of Deutschbentschek (near Timișoara), Austria-Hungary. The village is now part of Romania. Her father, a hussar officer named Stefan Johann, emigrated with his family to the United States in 1911.
She debuted on Broadway in 1924 and made her first film appearance in D.W. Griffith's 1931 film The Struggle. After seven films, she quit to work in theater, collaborating with John Houseman, to whom she was married from 1929 to 1933, and with Orson Welles. She also taught acting to people with learning disorders.
Johann married three times. She made her last film appearance in the 1986 horror film Raiders of the Living Dead.
In 1962, she was a guest artist at Elmwood Playhouse in Nyack, New York, where she directed Don Juan In Hell.
She died in 1993 at age 89 in Nyack. She was cremated and her ashes were scattered on a family farm in upstate New York.
Films
| Titre | Activités | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| The Mummy | Acteur [Helen Grovesnor / Ank-Souh-Namun] | Horror |