Elda Hartley

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Elda Voelkel Hartley (March 6, 1911 – March 6, 2001) was an American stage and motion picture actress. Following a brief career as a Hollywood actress, which lasted from 1930 to 1932 and during which she accumulated four screen credits, Voelkel married filmmaker Irving Hartley, with whom she produced numerous documentary films on a wide range of subjects. In 1976, she created the Hartley Film Foundation, which was dedicated to promoting greater understanding of religion and spirituality.

Filmography

• Zen: The Best of Alan Watts (1994)
• Sacred Trances of Java and Bali (1974)
• The Art of Meditation (1971)
• Zen and Now (1969)
• The Flow of Zen (1969)
• Buddhism, Man and Nature (1968)
• Huston Smith: The Mystic's Journey