{{short description|Austrian actress}} {{Infobox person | name = Frida Richard | image = Richard-frida-foto-ernst-foerster-1879-1943-in-brieger-lothar-das-frauengesicht-der-gegenwart-stuttgart-enke-1930-s078.jpg | alt = | caption = Richard {{circa}} 1930 | birth_name = Friederike Raithel | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1873|11|1}} | birth_place = Vienna, Austria-Hungary | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1946|9|12|1873|11|1}} | death_place = Salzburg, Austria | nationality = | death_cause = | spouse = Fritz Richard | children = 3 | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1908–1944 }} '''Frida Richard''' (born '''Friederike Raithel''', 1 November 1873 – 12 September 1946) was an Austrian actress. She was a prolific actress in both the silent and sound eras.

==Selected filmography== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''The Sin of Helga Arndt'' (1916) * ''The Queen's Love Letter'' (1916) * ''The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach'' (1917) * ''The Diamond Foundation'' (1917) * ''The Ringwall Family'' (1918) * ''Waves of Fate'' (1918) * ''The Ghost Hunt'' (1918) * ''The Pied Piper of Hamelin'' (1918) * ''Intoxication'' (1919) * ''Baccarat'' (1919) * ''The Dancer'' (1919) * ''Superstition'' (1919) * ''The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers'' (1919) * ''Temperamental Artist'' (1920) * ''Uriel Acosta'' (1920) * ''The Black Count'' (1920) * ''Christian Wahnschaffe'' (1920) * ''Judith Trachtenberg'' (1920) * ''The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * ''The Last Witness'' (1921) * ''The Hunt for the Truth'' (1921) * ''The New Paradise'' (1921) * ''The Stranger from Alster Street'' (1921) * ''About the Son'' (1921) * ''Alfred von Ingelheim's Dramatic Life'' (1921) * ''Wandering Souls'' (1921) * ''The Shadow of Gaby Leed'' (1921) * ''The Inheritance of Tordis'' (1921) * ''The House on the Moon'' (1921) * ''The Raft of the Dead'' (1921) * ''A Dying Nation'' (1922) * ''The Call of Destiny'' (1922) * ''Prashna's Secret'' (1922) * ''The Big Shot'' (1922) * ''Phantom'' (1922) * ''Barmaid'' (1922) * ''The Lost House'' (1922) * ''Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * ''The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen'' (1923) * ''The Lost Shoe'' (1923) * ''Lyda Ssanin'' (1923) * ''The Chain Clinks'' (1923) * ''Daisy'' (1923) * ''And Yet Luck Came'' (1923) * ''The Men of Sybill'' (1923) * ''Count Cohn'' (1923) * ''The Flame'' (1923) * ''Irene of Gold'' (1923) * ''The Merchant of Venice'' (1923) * ''New Year's Eve'' (''Sylvester: Tragödie einer Nacht'') (1924) * ''Siegfried'' (1924) * ''Spring Awakening'' (1924) * ''Leap Into Life'' (1924) * ''By Order of Pompadour'' (1924) * ''The Stolen Professor'' (1924) * ''Heart of Stone'' (1924) * ''Claire'' (1924) * ''Playing with Destiny'' (1924) * ''Mountain of Destiny'' (1924) * ''The Hanseatics'' (1925) * ''The Old Ballroom'' (1925) * ''The Island of Dreams'' (1925) * ''Old Mamsell's Secret'' (1925) * ''The Elegant Bunch'' (1925) * ''Den of Iniquity'' (1925) * ''Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1925) * ''An Artist of Life'' (1925) * ''The Dice Game of Life'' (1925) * ''Shadows of the Metropolis'' (1925) * ''The Flower Girl of Potsdam Square'' (1925) * ''Slums of Berlin'' (1925) * ''Lightning'' (1925) * ''The Telephone Operator'' (1925) * ''The Woman Who Did'' (1925) * ''The Farmer from Texas'' (1925) * ''Peter the Pirate'' (1925) * ''Hedda Gabler'' (1925) * ''Elegantes Pack'' (1925) * ''Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''Give My Regards to the Blonde Child on the Rhine'' (1926) * ''The Blue Danube'' (1926) * ''False Shame'' (1926) * ''Maytime'' (1926) * ''Women of Passion'' (1926) * ''Fedora'' (1926) * ''Vienna, How it Cries and Laughs'' (1926) * ''The Circus of Life'' (1926) * ''Watch on the Rhine'' (1926) * ''Should We Be Silent?'' (1926) * ''The Brothers Schellenberg'' (1926) * ''The Young Man from the Ragtrade'' (1926) * ''Faust'' (1926) * ''The Holy Mountain'' (1926) * ''The Convicted'' (1927) * ''Intoxicated Love'' (1927) * ''The Most Beautiful Legs of Berlin'' (1927) * ''Light-Hearted Isabel'' (1927) * ''On the Banks of the River Weser'' (1927) * ''Chance the Idol'' (1927) * ''The Curse of Vererbung'' (1927) * ''Weekend Magic'' (1927) * ''Tragedy of a Marriage'' (1927) * ''The Eighteen Year Old'' (1927) * ''The Girl from Abroad'' (1927) * ''Carnival Magic'' (1927) * ''Grand Hotel'' (1927) * ''That Was Heidelberg on Summer Nights'' (1927) * ''The Queen Was in the Parlour'' (1927) * ''The Prince of Rogues'' (1928) * ''Lemke's Widow'' (1928) * ''Katharina Knie'' (1929) * ''The Convict from Istanbul'' (1929) * ''The Burning Heart'' (1929) * ''The Woman One Longs For'' (1929) * ''People in the Fire'' (1930) * ''Love in the Ring'' (1930) * ''By a Nose'' (1931) * ''The Man Who Murdered'' (1931) * ''The Victor'' (1932) * ''Voices of Spring'' (1933) * ''Unfinished Symphony'' (1934) * ''When You're Young, the World Belongs to You'' (1934) * ''Suburban Cabaret'' (1935) * ''His Daughter is Called Peter'' (1936) * ''The Priest from Kirchfeld'' (1937) * ''Mirror of Life'' (1938) * ''A Mother's Love'' (1939) * ''A Hopeless Case'' (1939) * ''Goodbye, Franziska'' (1941) * ''Rembrandt'' (1942) * ''Die goldene Stadt'' (1942) * ''Opfergang'' (1944) {{div col end}}

==Bibliography== * Kester, Bernadette. ''Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German films of the Weimar Period (1919-1933)''. Amsterdam University Press, 2003.

==External links== *{{IMDB name|0723801}}

{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Richard, Frida}} Category:1873 births Category:1946 deaths Category:Austrian film actresses Category:Austrian silent film actresses Category:Actresses from Vienna Category:20th-century Austrian actresses Category:Actresses from Austria-Hungary

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