# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erna-sellmer
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:06:33.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erna-sellmer"
name: "Erna Sellmer"
slug: "erna-sellmer"
description: "Erna Elisabeth Dorothea Sellmer was a German film actress. She was best known in the English-speaking world for her role as housekeeper Frau Gerber in the 1970s Swiss-Canadian television series George about a St. Bernard dog and its owners. In 1939 Sellmer provided the German language voiceover for Hattie McDaniel in her Academy award-winning role in Gone with the Wind."
tagline: "German actress (1905-1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fotothek_df_pk_0000008_007_Szenenbilder.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1905-06-19"
deathDate: "1983-05-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.48
  momentum:             6.253687315634219
  historical:           6.439672
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0783422/"
    handle:    "nm0783422"
sources:
  - url: "https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Sellmer"
    title: "Erna Sellmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Sellmer"
    title: "Erna Sellmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7_%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "ارنا سيلمير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Sellmer"
    title: "Erna Sellmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Sellmer"
    title: "Erna Sellmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Sellmer"
    title: "Erna Sellmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erna_Sellmer"
    title: "Erna Sellmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108255"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/14170"
    title: "Erna Sellmer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump