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Bolibar
''Bolibar'' is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Walter Summers and starring Elissa Landi, Michael Hogan, and Carl Harbord. It was based on the 1920 novel ''The Marquis of Bolibar'' by Leo Perutz. It was made by British Instructional Films at Cricklewood Studios. Also outside scenes shot on the island of Malta with hundreds of Maltese extras. Cast * Elissa Landi as Françoise-Marie / La Monita * Michael Hogan as Lt. Donop * Hubert Carter as Col. Bellay * Carl Harbord as Lt. Gunther * Jerrold Robertshaw as The Marquise of Bolibar * Cecil Barry as Dapt. Egolstein * Evelyn Roberts as Captain Brockendorf * Gerald Pring as Captain O'Callaghan * Charles Emerald as Colonel * Hector Abbas as Artist See also *''The Marquis of Bolibar ''The Marquis of Bolibar'' (German: ''Der Marquis von Bolibar'') is a 1922 Austrian silent film directed by Friedrich Porges and starring Hans Schindler. It is based on the 1920 novel of the same title by Leo Perutz. The film' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marquis Of Bolibar
''The Marquis of Bolibar'' (German: ''Der Marquis von Bolibar'') is a 1922 Austrian silent film directed by Friedrich Porges and starring Hans Schindler. It is based on the 1920 novel of the same title by Leo Perutz. The film's sets were designed by the art director Artur Berger, Hans Rouc and Julius von Borsody. Cast * Hans Schindler as Marquis von Bolibar *Josef Überacker as Oberst *Otto Schmöle as Salignac *Ida Koór as Monjita *Karl Miksch as Maultiertreiber Perico *Joe Lars as Captain Egloffstern *Heinrich Fuchs as Lieutenant Günther *Josef Zetenius *Stefan Pichy *Carl Lustig-Prean *Hans Brausewetter See also *''Bolibar ''Bolibar'' is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Walter Summers and starring Elissa Landi, Michael Hogan, and Carl Harbord. It was based on the 1920 novel ''The Marquis of Bolibar'' by Leo Perutz. It was made by British Instructio ...'' (1928) References External links * Austrian silent feature films Films directed by Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leo Perutz
Leopold Perutz (2 November 1882, Prague – 25 August 1957, Bad Ischl) was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. He was born in Prague (now capital of the Czech Republic) and was thus a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lived in Vienna until the Nazi ''Anschluss'' in 1938, when he emigrated to Palestine. According to the biographical note on the Arcade Publishing editions of the English translations of his novels, Leo was a mathematician who formulated an algebraic equation which is named after him; he worked as a statistician for an insurance company. He was related to the biologist Max Perutz. During the 1950s he returned occasionally to Austria, spending the summer and autumn months in the market town of St. Wolfgang in the Salzkammergut resort region and in Vienna. He died in the Austrian spa town of Bad Ischl in 1957. He wrote his first novel, ''The Third Bullet'', in 1915 while recovering from a wound sustained in the First World War. In all Perutz wrote eleven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Summers
Walter Summers (1892–1973) was a British film director and screenwriter. Biography Born in Barnstaple to a family of actors, British motion picture director Walter Summers began his career in the family trade; his first contact with filmmaking was as an assistant to American director George Loane Tucker, who worked for the English London Films unit from 1914 to 1916. With the outbreak of war, Summers mobilized into the British Army, gaining experiences that would serve him well later as a filmmaker. At war’s end, Summers worked briefly for Cecil Hepworth, and then the Territorial Unit in India before making contact with producer/director George B. Samuelson. Samuelson hired Summers as a writer, primarily on films starring the popular actress Lillian Hall-Davis such as ''Maisie’s Marriage'' (1923). Summers co-directed a couple of pictures with Samuelson before flying solo for the first time with a drama, '' A Couple of Down and Outs'' (1923). Summers followed this up with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerrold Robertshaw
Jerrold Robertshaw (28 March 1866, in Allerton, West Riding of Yorkshire – 14 February 1941, in London) was a British stage and film actor of the silent era. Selected filmography * ''Dombey and Son'' (1917) * ''Build Thy House'' (1920) * ''The Bonnie Brier Bush'' (1921) * '' A Master of Craft'' (1922) * ''The Wandering Jew'' (1923) * '' Should a Doctor Tell?'' (1923) * '' A Royal Divorce'' (1923) * ''Guy Fawkes'' (1923) * ''Don Quixote'' (1923) * '' The Arab'' (1924) * ''The Sins Ye Do'' (1924) * ''She'' (1925) * '' The Apache'' (1925) * '' A Royal Divorce'' (1926) * '' Huntingtower'' (1927) * ''Tommy Atkins'' (1928) * ''Bolibar'' (1928) * '' You Know What Sailors Are'' (1928) * '' Palais de danse'' (1928) * ''Glorious Youth ''Glorious Youth'' is a 1929 British silent drama film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Anny Ondra, Randle Ayrton and William Freshman. It is also known by the alternative title of ''Eileen of the Trees''. It was one of two films Cutts m .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Pring
Gerald Pring (1888 – 1970) was a British stage and film actor. He played a number of supporting roles in British and American films during the silent and sound eras. In 1930 he appeared in the West End in the comedy '' Almost a Honeymoon''.Wearing p.8 Selected filmography * ''The Lady of the Photograph'' (1917) * ''Milestones'' (1920) * ''The Palace of Darkened Windows'' (1920) * '' The Nut'' (1921) * ''Desert Blossoms'' (1921) * '' Live and Let Live'' (1921) * '' The Bronze Bell'' (1921) * ''The Fighting Streak'' (1922) * ''Man Under Cover'' (1922) * ''June Madness'' (1922) * ''Confidence'' (1922) * '' Broken Chains'' (1922) * ''Always the Woman'' (1922) * ''Bolibar'' (1928) * ''Three Witnesses'' (1935) * ''Well Done, Henry'' (1936) * '' The Dark Eyes of London'' (1939) * ''The Echo Murders'' (1945) * ''Loyal Heart'' (1946) * ''Black Memory ''Black Memory'' is a 1947 British crime film directed by Oswald Mitchell and starring Michael Atkinson, Myra O'Connell and Michael M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Roberts
Evelyn Roberts (28 August 1886 – 30 November 1962) was an English stage and film actor. He made his stage debut in 1918 after serving in WW I; and his theatre work included the original Broadway production of R.C. Sherriff's ''Journey's End'' in 1929-1930. Selected filmography * ''Bolibar'' (1928) * '' Say It with Music'' (1932) * ''One Precious Year'' (1933) * ''The Melody-Maker'' (1933) * '' Anne One Hundred'' (1933) * ''Purse Strings'' (1933) * '' Sorrell and Son'' (1934) * ''The Broken Rosary'' (1934) * ''Sing As We Go'' (1934) * '' The Feathered Serpent'' (1934) * ''No Limit'' (1935) * '' A Romance in Flanders'' (1937) * ''Keep Fit'' (1937) * ''Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel'' (1937) * ''I've Got a Horse'' (1938) * ''The Second Mr. Bush'' (1940) * '' The Midas Touch'' (1940) * ''The Winslow Boy'' (1948) * ''The Heart of the Matter'' (1953) * '' The Clue of the Missing Ape'' (1953) * ''The Green Scarf'' (1954) * '' Man of the Moment'' (1955) * '' A Touch of the Sun'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hector Abbas
Hector Abbas (9 November 1884 – 11 November 1942) was a Dutch film actor who appeared mainly in British films after emigrating to the United Kingdom. Partial filmography * ''The First Men in the Moon'' (1919) * ''A Prince of Lovers'' (1922) * ''The Wandering Jew'' (1923) * ''Bolibar'' (1928) * ''The School for Scandal'' (1930) * ''Madame Guillotine'' (1931) * '' A Gentleman of Paris'' (1931) * ''Rembrandt'' (1936) * '' Gypsy Melody'' (1936) * ''The Man Who Made Diamonds'' (1937) * ''Old Mother Riley's Circus'' (1941) * ''The Common Touch'' (1941) * '' "Pimpernel" Smith'' (1941) * ''One of Our Aircraft Is Missing ''One of Our Aircraft Is Missing'' (stylized onscreen as ''......one of our aircraft is missing'') is a 1942 British black-and-white war film, mainly set in the German-occupied Netherlands. It was the fourth collaboration between the British writ ...'' (1942) References External links * 1884 births 1942 deaths Dutch male film actors Male actors from Amste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Harbord
Carl Harbord (26 January 1908 – 18 October 1958) was an English stage, film and television actor. Stage When he was 19, Harbord appeared in the play ''The Happy Husband'', which was presented at the Criterion Theatre in London, England. In 1933, he first appeared in a play in Australia. His first Broadway appearance was in 1934, in a production of Noël Coward's ''Conversation Piece'' at the 44th Street Theatre. Film Harbord entered the film industry during the final stage of the silent era. He appeared in several early sound films for British International Pictures such as '' The Informer''. One of his most prominent roles was in Anthony Asquith's First World War film '' Tell England''. Harbord later went to Hollywood where he played supporting, but sometimes significant minor roles. Partial filmography * ''Bolibar'' (1928) - Lt. Gunther * '' Young Woodley'' (1928) - Ainger * ''The American Prisoner'' (1929) - Lt. Burnham * '' The Informer'' (1929) - Francis McPhil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hogan (British Actor)
Michael Hogan (17 September 1893 – 1 January 1977) was a British screenwriter. Hogan had previously been a notable film actor, appearing in lead roles in a number of silent and early sound films. Hogan worked as a writer in both Britain and Hollywood. Selected filmography Actor * ''Bolibar'' (1928) * ''Ag and Bert'' (1929) comedy short film made in Phonofilm, directed by Bertram Phillips and co-starring Mabel Constanduros * ''Windjammer'' (1930) * ''The Lyons Mail'' (1931) * ''Dance Pretty Lady'' (1932) * ''The Mayor's Nest'' (1932) * '' The Flag Lieutenant'' (1932) * ''The Man Outside'' (1933) * ''The River Wolves'' (1934) * '' My Old Dutch'' (1934) * ''The Queen's Affair'' (1934) * ''The Last Journey'' (1936) Screenwriter * '' Squibs'' (1935) * ''The Passing of the Third Floor Back'' (1935) * ''Take My Tip'' (1937) * ''King Solomon's Mines'' (1937) * ''A Yank at Oxford'' (1938) * '' Trouble Brewing'' (1939) * ''Nurse Edith Cavell'' (1939) * '' Secret Journey'' (1939) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elissa Landi
Elissa Landi (born Elisabeth Marie Christine Kühnelt; December 6, 1904 – October 21, 1948) was an Austrian-American actress born in Venice, who was popular as a performer in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. She was noted for her alleged aristocratic bearing. Biography Landi was born Elisabeth Marie Christine Kühnelt in Venice, Italy, to Austrian military officer Richard Kühnelt and his wife Caroline. She was raised in the village of Kleinhart in Lower Austria near Vienna until the divorce of her parents. Later on she was educated in England. From 1928 to 1936, she was married to John Cecil Lawrence, and from 1943 to 1948 to Curtis Kinney Thomas (1905–2002). Landi's first ambition was to be an author. She wrote her first novel at the age of twenty, and returned to writing during lulls in her acting career. She debuted on stage in '' Dandy Dick'' (1923). She joined the Oxford Repertory Company at an early age, and appeared in many successful British and American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivor Montagu
Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu (23 April 1904, in Kensington, London – 5 November 1984, in Watford) was an English filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player, and Communist activist in the 1930s. He helped to develop a lively intellectual film culture in Britain during the interwar years, and was also the founder of the International Table Tennis Federation. Life and career Montagu was born into wealth, as the third son of Gladys (née Goldsmid) and Louis Montagu, 2nd Baron Swaythling, members of a Jewish banking dynasty with a mansion in Kensington. He attended Westminster School and King's College, Cambridge, where he contributed to ''Granta''. He became involved in zoological research. With Sidney Bernstein he established the LondoFilm Societyin 1925, the first British film association devoted to showing art films and independent films. Montagu became the first film critic of ''The Observer'' and the ''New Statesman''. He did the post-pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Based On Austrian Novels
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
