year Aud married him, he ascended to superstar status, taking the lead role of King Siegfried in Lang's Die Nibelungen. Along with Paul Richter, Aud also played in the 1928 Norwegian-German co-production Snowshoe Bandits () and based on a crime novel by Nils Lie and Nordahl Grieg. Egede-Nissen's German film career came to an end shortly after the advent of sound films, though she did return to Norway to make two films there in the 1940s. Personal life Egede-Nissen was twice married to actors. In 1915 she married the German actor Georg Alexander (1888–1945), by whom she had her son Georg Richter (1915–1972); in 1924 they divorced, and from 1924 to 1931 she was married to the Austrian actor Paul Richter (1895–1961). Upon their marriage, Richter adopted her nine-year-old son Georg Richter who became an actor and film producer. In 1940, she was married for the third time with Dag Havrevold (1911–1994). Together they had a son Dag Havrevold, Jr. (1938–2011). Havrevold's brother was Olafr Havrevold, who later married (and divorced) Aud's sister, Gøril. Aud Egede-Nissen died in Oslo, Norway at the age of 81. Selected filmography Die Filmprinzessin (1914) Mobilmachung in der Küche (1914) Das Phantom der Oper (1916) Homunculus (1916) Sumurun (1920) The Closed Chain (1920) Temperamental Artist (1920) Das Geheimnis der Chrysanthemen (1920) Anna Boleyn (1920) Ships and People (1920) The Raft of the Dead (1921) The Terror of the Red Mill (1921) Night of the Burglar (1921) The Maharaja's Favourite Wife (1921) The Secret of the Mummy (1921) Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (1921) Lucrezia Borgia (1922) Phantom (1922) A Dying Nation (1922) The Expulsion (1923) The Street (1923) Carousel (1923) Carlos and Elisabeth (1924) The New Land (1924) Slums of Berlin (1925) Peter the Pirate (1925) The Red Mouse (1926) People to Each Other (1926) The Ones Down There (1926) The Armoured Vault (1926) Eternal Allegiance (1926) Battle of the Sexes (1926) Sister Veronika (1927) Lord of the Night (1927) King of the Centre Forwards (1927) The Villa in Tiergarten Park (1927) Snowshoe Bandits (1928) The Woman in the Advocate's Gown (1929) Eskimo (1930) Between Night and Dawn (1931) Hansen og Hansen (Norway, 1941) Trysil-Knut (Norway, 1942); Swedish title Nordlandets våghals References Other sources External links 1893 births 1974 deaths Mass media people from Bergen Norwegian film actresses Norwegian women film directors Norwegian silent film actresses 20th-century Norwegian actresses Women film pioneers Silent film producers Burials