Gertrude Hoffmann (actress)

Gertrude W. Hoffmann was a Germanborn American character actress who began her Hollywood career as she was entering her later years.

Eliza Gertrude Wesselhoeft was born on May 17, 1871, at Heidelberg , the daughter of Walter and Mary Sara Silver Wesselhoeft. Her father was a Germanborn doctor who at the time of her birth had left his medical practice in Halifax, Nova Scotia behind to volunteer his services after the outbreak of the FrancoPrussian War. He returned to North America in the early 1873 and opened up a general practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts where Gertrude was raised along with her six siblings.

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