Ursula Grabley

Ursula Grabley (8 December 1908 – 3 April 1977) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1929 and 1977. Her acting career started during the late silent era and blossomed in the sound era that soon followed. The cast of the 1929 silent film Katharina Knie included Ursula and her then husband Viktor de Kowa.

She trained as a ballet dancer. Her film career stalled during the war years after a private altercation with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. From the 1950s onwards, she often played motherly figures in films and on television. She provided the German voice for Lucille Ball. Ursula died of a stroke during a theatrical tour of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".