Actor
Greta Schröder
Born 27 June 1892 · Düsseldorf, Germany — died 8 June 1980
Greta Schröder was a German actress of the silent era. She is best remembered as Ellen, the wife of Thomas Hutter, in F. W. Murnau's *Nosferatu* (1922). Most of her career fell in the 1920s, and she was married to director and actor Paul Wegener.
Key films
Nosferatu (1922)On Cinespective
Her defining role: Hutter's wife, who is drawn into Count Orlok's menace, in a landmark of horror cinema.
The Lost Shadow (1921)
Silent fantasy-era film from the early 1920s, the decade in which most of her career took place.
Zirkus des Lebens (1921)
Another early 1920s silent credit, showing her steady work in German film just before Nosferatu.
Key awards
No major awards are documented here.
On Cinespective
Full filmography · 18
- 1913The Island of the Blessed · as PsycheActor
- 1920The Golem: How He Came into the World · as Young Woman with RoseActor
- 1920The Closed ChainActor
- 1920The Red PeacockActor
- 1921Zirkus des Lebens · as AlegriaActor
- 1921The Lost ShadowActor
- 1922Nosferatu · as EllenActor
- 1923BrüderActor
- 1923Paganini · as Antonia PaganiniActor
- 1930The Twelfth Hour · as Margitta Kundberg (Archive footage)Actor
- 1937Victoria the Great · as Baroness LehzenActor
- 1938Sixty Glorious Years · as Baronin LehzenActor
- 1943Wild-Bird · as Jutta LossenActor
- 1953Annaluise & Anton · as Gesellschafterin auf Party (uncredited)Actor
- 2018The Third Eye of Simon Harker · as Mina Harker (archive footage)Actor
- 2023The Tomb of Nosferatu · as Ellen (archive footage)Actor
- 2023Synthwave Horror: Nosferatu · as EllenActor
- 2025Radiohead X Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror · as Ellen - seine FrauActor
Filmography data from TMDB. The profile text is a draft written for Cinespective.