Catherine Hessling

Biography

Catherine Hessling, born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling, was a French stage and screen actress and the first wife of film director Jean Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the acting profession and withdrawing from public life in the mid-1930s.

Known For

Nana

The Little Match Girl

High and Low

The Sad Sack

Crime and Punishment

The Pursuit of Happiness

Little Red Riding Hood

Backbiters

All Movies (14)

• Crime and Punishment1935 · as Elisabeth
• Coralie and Company1934
• High and Low1933 · as Mademoiselle Paula
• The Pursuit of Happiness1930 · as Catherine
• Little Red Riding Hood1930 · as Le petit chaperon rouge
• The Sad Sack1928 · as L'institutrice
• The Little Match Girl1928 · as Karen
• Yvette1927 · as Yvette
• Sea Fever1927
• Backbiters1927 · as Catherine Ferrand
• La P’tite Lili1927
• Charleston Parade1927 · as Parisian savage
• Nana1926 · as Nana
• Whirlpool of Fate1925 · as Virginia Rosaert

All TV Shows (1)

• Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma1978 · as Self (archive footage)