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List Of German Actors
This is a list of notable German actors from 1895, the year of the first public showing of a motion picture by the Lumière brothers, to the present. Actors are listed in the period in which their film careers ''began'' and the careers of most spanned more than just one period. The list currently includes actors that appear in German movies, including those of foreign origin. For the periods corresponding to the era when Germany was divided the list is split into two categories: BRD for West German actors and DEFA for East German actors. Early silent era (1895–1918) ;Men * Alfred Abel * Fritz Achterberg * Max Adalbert * Hans Albers * Georg Alexander * Carl Auen * Felix Basch * Albert Bassermann * Rudolf Biebrach * Paul Bildt * Curt Bois * Louis Brody * Richard Eichberg * Julius Falkenstein * Olaf Fönss * Henrik Galeen * Curt Goetz * John Gottowt * Emmerich Hanus * Heinz Hanus * Ludwig Hartau * Paul Hartmann * Emil Jannings * Victor Janson * Hans Junkermann * Fritz Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Richard Eichberg
Richard Eichberg (27 October 1888 – 8 May 1952) was a German film director and producer. He directed 87 films between 1915 and 1949. He also produced 77 films between 1915 and 1950. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in Munich, Germany. Selected filmography * '' Jettatore'' (1919) * '' Sins of the Parents'' (1919) * '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919) * '' Der Fluch der Menschheit'' (1920) * '' Hypnose'' (1920) * '' Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan'' (1920) * '' Im Rausche der Milliarden'' (1920) * ''Evelyn's Love Adventures'' (1921) * ''The Living Propeller'' (1921) * '' Ihre Hoheit die Tänzerin'' (1922) * ''Monna Vanna'' (1922) * ''The Moneylender's Daughter'' (1922) * ''The Romance of a Poor Sinner'' (1922) * ''Girl of the Berlin Streets'' (1922) * ''Fräulein Raffke'' (1923) * ''The Most Beautiful Woman in the World'' (1924) * ''The Motorist Bride'' (1925) * ''Women of Luxury'' (1925) * ''The Girl on the Road'' (1925) * '' Love and Trumpets'' (1925) * ''The Woman with Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fritz Kampers
Fritz Kampers (14 July 1891 – 1 September 1950) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 250 films between 1913 and 1950. Early life Fritz Kampers was the son of a Munich hotel owner, spent his early childhood in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and attended a boarding school in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria. After completing secondary school, he completed a commercial apprenticeship in a textile shop in Munich and at the same time took acting classes with Richard Stury, who presided as president of the Munich experimental stage. After appearances at small suburbs in Munich, such as the Alhambratheater, he wandered through the province and finally found engagements in Alzey, Karlsruhe, Lucerne, Sondershausen, Helmstedt and Aachen. During the First World War he served as a cavalryman on the eastern front, was wounded, fired and joined the front theaters in Warsaw and Łódź. During a commitment begun in 1917 at the Munich Volkstheater Fritz Kampers got to know the director Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Junkermann (actor)
Hans Ferdinand Junkermann (24 February 1872 – 12 June 1943) was a German actor. He was married to the Austrian actress Julia Serda. Selected filmography * ''Where Is Coletti?'' (1913) * ''The Seeds of Life'' (1918) * ''The Girl from Acker Street'' (1920) * ''The Love Affairs of Hector Dalmore'' (1921) * ''Hamlet'' (1921) * ''Hazard'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Struggle'' (1921) * '' Playing with Fire'' (1921) * ''Lola Montez, the King's Dancer'' (1922) * ''Miss Rockefeller Is Filming'' (1922) * ''Maciste and the Silver King's Daughter'' (1922) * ''The Girl with the Mask'' (1922) * ''The Flight into Marriage'' (1922) * '' The Lady and Her Hairdresser'' (1922) * '' The Woman on the Panther'' (1923) * ''Das Milliardensouper'' (1923) * '' Nanon'' (1924) * ''The Stolen Professor'' (1924) * ''Darling of the King'' (1924) * '' The Great Unknown'' (1924) *'' Dancing Mad'' (1925) * ''The Girl with a Patron'' (1925) * ''Express Train of Love'' (1925) * ''The Salesgirl from the Fashion Stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Janson
Victor Arthur Eduard Janson ( lv, Viktors Artūrs Eduards Jansons; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvians, Latvian ethnicity. Selected filmography Actor * ''Your Dearest Enemy'' (1916) * ''When Four Do the Same'' (1917) * ''Carmen (1918 film), Carmen'' (1918) * ''The Ballet Girl'' (1918) * ''The Seeds of Life (film), The Seeds of Life'' (1918) * ''Ferdinand Lassalle (film), Ferdinand Lassalle'' (1918) * ''Der Gelbe Schein, The Yellow Ticket'' (1918) * ''My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * ''The Dagger of Malaya'' (1919) * ''One or the Other (film), One or the Other'' (1919) * ''Superstition (1919 film), Superstition'' (1919) * ''The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers'' (1919) * ''Countess Doddy'' (1919) * ''The Howling Wolf'' (1919) * ''The Merry Husband'' (1919) * ''The Panther Bride'' (1919) * ''The Oyster Princess'' (1919) * ''The Woman at the Crossroads (1919 film), The Woman at the Crossroads'' (1919) * ''The Housing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings (born Theodor Friedrich Emil Janenz, 23 July 1884 – 2 January 1950) was a Swiss born German actor, popular in the 1920s in Hollywood. He was the first recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in '' The Last Command'' and ''The Way of All Flesh''. As of , Jannings is the only German ever to have won the category. Jannings is best known for his collaborations with F. W. Murnau and Josef von Sternberg, including the 1930 film ''The Blue Angel'' (''Der blaue Engel'', with Marlene Dietrich. ''The Blue Angel'' was meant as a vehicle for Jannings to score a place for himself in the new medium of sound film, but Dietrich stole the show. Jannings later starred in a number of Nazi propaganda films, which made him unemployable as an actor after the defeat of Nazi Germany. Childhood and youth Jannings was born in Rorschach, Switzerland, the son of Emil Janenz, an American businessman from St. Louis, and his wife Margarethe (''née'' Schwabe), origi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hartmann (actor)
Paul Wilhelm Constantin Hartmann (8 January 1889 – 30 June 1977) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Zofia - Kriegs-Irrfahrten eines Kindes'' (1915) * ' (1915) * ' (1916) * ' (1917) * ' (1917) as Georg * '' Christa Hartungen'' (1917) as Bernd Römer * ' (1917) as Hieronymus * '' Mountain Air'' (1917) as Egon * ' (1917) * ' (1918) * '' Es werde Licht!'' (1918) as Ernst Hartwig * ''Mouchy'' (1918) * '' The Prisoner of Dahomey'' (1918) * ''Precious Stones'' (1918) * ''Der unheimliche Gast'' (1918) as Uwe Johanssen * ''Taumel'' (1919) * ''The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * ''Die Hexe von Norderoog'' (1919) * '' The Secret of Wera Baranska'' (1919) * '' Blonde Poison'' (1919) as Georg Maudi * '' The Galley Slave'' (1919) as Rastignac * ''The Girl and the Men'' (1919) * ''Monika Vogelsang'' (1920) as Amadeo Vaselli, Kirchenmaler * '' Battle of the Sexes'' (1920) * ''Mary Magdalene'' (1920) as Karl * ''Können Gedanken töten?'' (1920) as Geliebter * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Hartau
Ludwig Hartau (19 February 1877 – 24 November 1922) was a German actor. Selected filmography * '' The Dancer'' (1915) * '' Hungernde Millionäre'' (1919) * ''Baccarat'' (1919) * '' The Three Dances of Mary Wilford'' (1920) * ''Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * ''Four Around a Woman'' (1921) * ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922) * ''Maciste and the Silver King's Daughter'' (1922) * ''Napoleon's Daughter'' (1922) * '' Two Worlds'' (1922) * ''Today's Children'' (1922) * ''The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen ''The Treasure of Gesine Jacobsen'' (German: ''Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen'') is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Marija Leiko, Paul Wegener and Reinhold Schünzel. It premiered in Berlin Be ...'' (1923) * '' The Beautiful Girl'' (1923) Bibliography * Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. ''Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene''. Berghahn Books, 1999. External links * 1877 births 1922 deaths People from Żmigród ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinz Hanus
Heinz Hanus (24 May 1882 – 16 March 1972) was an Austrian actor and film director. He directed 21 films between 1908 and 1929. His younger brother was actor and film director Emmerich Hanus. Selected filmography * ''Der Gevatter Tod'' (''Godfather Death'') (1921) * '' William Ratcliff'' (1922) * '' The Arsonists of Europe'' (1926) * ''A Precocious Girl ''A Precocious Girl'' (German title: ''Csibi, der Fratz'' aka ''Früchtchen'') is a 1934 Austrian comedy film directed by Max Neufeld and Richard Eichberg and starring Franciska Gaal, Leopoldine Konstantin and Herbert Hübner. The film's sets we ...'' (1934) References External links * 1882 births 1972 deaths Austrian male film actors Austrian film directors 20th-century Austrian male actors Film people from Vienna Austrian male silent film actors {{Austria-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmerich Hanus
Emmerich Hanus (24 August 1884 – 20 November 1956) was an Austrian actor and film director. He appeared in 22 films between 1913 and 1949. His older brother was actor and film director Heinz Hanus. Selected filmography * ''The Other'' (1913) * ''The Final Mask ''The Final Mask'' (German:''Die letzte Maske'') is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Emmerich Hanus and starring Margarete Lanner and Wilhelm Diegelmann.Grange p.164 Cast In alphabetical order * Alf Blütecher * Wilhelm Diegelmann ...'' (1924) * '' A Free People'' (1925) * '' The Eleven Schill Officers'' (1926) * '' That Was Heidelberg on Summer Nights'' (1927) * '' The Hour of Temptation'' (1936) * '' It's Only Love'' (1947) References External links * 1884 births 1956 deaths Austrian male film actors Austrian male silent film actors Austrian film directors 20th-century Austrian male actors Film people from Vienna {{Austria-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gottowt
John Gottowt (15 June 1881 – 29 August 1942) was an Austrian actor, stage director and film director for theatres and silent movies. He was born as Isidor Gesang in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (present-day Lviv, Ukraine) into a Jewish family. After his education in Vienna, he joined the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1905, working for Max Reinhardt as an actor and director. Gottowt was mainly active in different theatres in Berlin as a character actor and director. His first silent film appearance was in Paul Wegener’s '' Der Student von Prag'' ("The Student of Prague") (1913). In 1920 he appeared in Robert Wiene's '' Genuine'' and took the main role in the early science fiction film ''Algol''. In 1921 he played Professor Bulwer (Abraham van Helsing) in the classic silent film ''Nosferatu'' directed by F.W. Murnau. Gottowt made also several films with his brother-in-law Henrik Galeen but, as a Jew, was banned in 1933 from working as a professional actor. After a few years in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curt Goetz
Curt Goetz (; 17 November 1888 – 12 September 1960), born Kurt Walter Götz, was a Swiss German writer, actor and film director. He was regarded as one of the most brilliant German comedy writers of his time. With his wife Valérie von Martens, he acted in his own plays and also filmed them. He was a distant relative of Irish writer George Bernard Shaw, to whom he was often compared. Life and work Goetz was born in Mainz, Germany the son of Swiss wine examiner Bernhard Götz and his German wife of Italian-French descent, Selma (born Rocco). His father died in 1890. Two-year-old Curt and his mother then moved to Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, where she managed a private clinic. In 1906 Goetz graduated from City High School in Halle, where he played Franz Moor in ''The Robbers'' by Schiller. His mother remarried, and his stepfather encouraged and financed Goetz's first steps in the theatre. He studied acting under Berlin's Emanuel Reicher. In 1907 he made his stage debut at the St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
