Actor
Lotte Palfi Andor
July 28, 1903 · Bochum, Germany
Lotte Palfi Andor was an aspiring Jewish stage actress in Germany and had to flee in 1934 with her first husband, the cutter (film editor) Victor Palfi, after the Nazis came to power. She played only bit parts in Hollywood, many of them uncredited. Her most memorable roles were in Casablanca (1942), where she was "the woman who has to sell her diamonds" in order to escape the Nazis and in Marathon Man (1976), where she was "the woman on 47th street," chasing a Nazi who is trying to escape with robbed diamonds.
In 1943, she married the German-American actor Wolfgang Zilzer (stage name: Paul Andor), who had been the "man with expired papers" in Casablanca (1942). The couple divorced in old age when the American-born Zilzer wanted to die in Germany and his wife refused to return to her native country.
Notable work
Often works with
Wolfgang Zilzer
5 titles together
Confessions of a Nazi Spy, Walk East on Beacon, Lovesick
Conrad Veidt
3 titles together
Casablanca, Above Suspicion, Escape
Philip Dorn
3 titles together
Reunion in France, Escape, Underground
Sydney Greenstreet
2 titles together
Casablanca, The Mask of Dimitrios
Peter Lorre
2 titles together
Casablanca, The Mask of Dimitrios
Roy Scheider
2 titles together
Marathon Man, All That Jazz
Full filmography · 14
Lovesick
as Analyst
1983
Bill
as Ida Miller
1981
All That Jazz
as Old Woman
19797.5
Marathon Man
as Old Lady on 47th Street
19767.2
Walk East on Beacon
as Anna Kafer
19525.3
Son of Lassie
as Old Woman
19456.2
The Mask of Dimitrios
as Yugoslav Receptionist (uncredited)
19447.1
Above Suspicion
as Ottilie
19436.2
Casablanca
as Woman Selling Her Diamonds (uncredited)
19438.1
Reunion in France
as Unpleasant German Customer (uncredited)
19426.5
Underground
as Greta Rolf
1941
Out of Darkness
as Madame Rochelle (uncredited)
1941