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Catherine Hessling

Catherine Hessling

Born: 1900-06-22 • Moronvilliers, Marne, France

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.

Filmography
Crime and Punishment poster
Crime and Punishment
1935 • Elisabeth
Coralie and Company poster
Coralie and Company
1934
High and Low poster
High and Low
1933 • Mademoiselle Paula
The Pursuit of Happiness poster
The Pursuit of Happiness
1930 • Catherine
Little Red Riding Hood poster
Little Red Riding Hood
1930 • Le petit chaperon rouge
The Sad Sack poster
The Sad Sack
1928 • L'institutrice
The Little Match Girl poster
The Little Match Girl
1928 • Karen
No Image
Yvette
1927 • Yvette
Sea Fever poster
Sea Fever
1927
Backbiters poster
Backbiters
1927 • Catherine Ferrand
La P’tite Lili poster
La P’tite Lili
1927
Charleston Parade poster
Charleston Parade
1927 • Parisian savage
Nana poster
Nana
1926 • Nana
Whirlpool of Fate poster
Whirlpool of Fate
1925 • Virginia Rosaert