Born in Bad Kissingen, Germany, in 1885, Hanna Ralph made her stage debut in 1913 and her film debut in 1917. She was quite active in silent films, and worked for such directors as
Fritz Lang and
F.W. Murnau, and at one point was married to
Emil Jannings (they later divorced). She made her final film,
The Unholy Intruders (1952), in 1952. She died in Berlin, Germany, in 1978.