Biography

Inge Landgut was born on November 23, 1922 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for M (1931), Superman (1978) and Emil and the Detectives (1931). She was married to Werner Oehlschlaeger. She died on May 29, 1986 in West Berlin, West Germany.

Active from the 1950s as a voice-over actress, dubbing for Sophia Loren, Shelley Winters, Esther Williams, Hermione Baddeley, Barbara Bel Geddes ("Dallas"), Lois Maxwell ("Miss Moneypenny"), and as the first German voice of Wilma in The Flintstones (1960).

Landgut was a well-known child star and called the "German Shirley Temple". Her career started when Henny Porten spotted the young child playing in a sandpit. She acted with Porten in the silent movies Violantha (1927) and Mother Love (1929).

Her last two roles were in Schneeweißchen und Rosenrot (1984) and Médecins de nuit (1978).

After the huge success of M (1931), she enhanced her popularity in the film Emil and the Detectives (1931), with which role she became the darling of the nation as "Pony Hütchen".