Louise Prussing

Louise Prussing (1895–1994) was an American actress whose career spanned both stage and screen. She worked on Broadway across nearly three decades, from 1917 to 1946, and also accumulated credits in silent film during the earlier portion of her career.

Her Broadway work included a range of productions in varying genres. Among her stage credits were The Country Cousin, Berkeley Square, the play Singapore, the drama Counsellor-at-Law, and Before Morning. These appearances placed her among the working performers of the American stage through the first half of the twentieth century.

Prussing was also active in film, appearing in a series of silent pictures beginning in 1919. Her screen credits included Out Yonder (1919), His Wife's Money (1920), A Fool and His Money (1920), What's Your Reputation Worth? (1921), Worlds Apart (1921), The Girl from Nowhere (1921), Reckless Youth (1922), Jan of the Big Snows (1922), and The Thoroughbred (1928). In 1929 she appeared in the British production The Woman in White, and in 1933 she appeared in Before Morning, a credit she shared with her stage work of the same title.