Ingrid Pan

Brunette actress and dancer Ingrid Pan (born Pankow) popped up in supporting roles in several important post-war German films. She was trained on the Berlin stage by the renowned Viennese-born thespian Hilde Körber and made her theatrical debut shortly after the end of the Second World War. From 1949, she worked in various ensembles on the stages of Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. Ingrid's best remembered screen roles included those of Klärchen in the popular operetta Im Weissen Rössl (1952) and of Doddy in Aren't We Wonderful? (1958), a comedy based on a classic satirical novel by Hugo Hartung. She was also a voice actress for radio plays as well as dubbing English-language motion pictures for stars like Priscilla Lane and Barbara Shelley. Ingrid was married from 1962 to the actor and director Heinz Günther Stamm for whom she frequently worked in radio at the Süddeutscher Rundfunk and at the Kleine Komödie in Munich. She retired from acting in the mid-60s and lived the rest of her life in relative obscurity.