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Ship Of The Dead
''The Death Ship'' (german: Das Totenschiff) is a 1959 West German adventure film directed by Georg Tressler and starring Horst Buchholz, Mario Adorf, Helmut Schmid, and Elke Sommer. The film is based on the book of the same name by B. Traven, author of ''The Treasure of Sierra Madre'', and was filmed on location in Spain. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Emil Hasler and Walter Kutz. Plot A group of outcast men drift around the world, never settling down or being accepted. They encounter various adventures around the globe, including being forced to work on a decrepit ship. British Film Institute Cast *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Tressler
Georg Tressler (January 25, 1917 – January 6, 2007) was a Vienna-born German film actor and film director. Also known as George Tressler, Hans Tressler, Hans Dressler, Hans Georg Keil and Hans Sternbeck (per IMDb). The son of actor Otto Tressler, he began his acting career in the 1930s. George Tressler was drafted into the German army during World War II and served on the Russian Front. He became ill and was released from the service and returned to Vienna. In the immediated post-war period Tressler was employed making films to help his Austrian compatriots better understand how to benefit from US Marshall Plan aid. According to Maria Fritsche, author of ''"The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans: A Captivated Audience?"'' Tressler took special efforts to find ways to convince his audience accepting US aid was of genuine benefit to them. In particular, when he found Austrian farmers feared the techniques and technology used in America on much larger Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, distribution, and education. It is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and partially funded under the British Film Institute Act 1949. Purpose It was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop collections reflecting the moving image history and heritage of the United Kingdom. BFI activities Archive The BFI maint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1950s German-language Films
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West German Films
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Claudia Gerstäcker
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Karl Lieffen
Karl Lieffen (17 May 1926 – 13 January 1999), born Karel František Lifka, was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 140 films on screen and television between 1949 and 1998. He was born in Ossegg (Osek), Czechoslovakia and attended drama classes at Brunswick and the Heer School of Music in Bückeburg. In 1946 he started his theatre career in Freiburg followed by engagements at the Hessian State Theatre in Wiesbaden, the Munich Kammerspiele and the Opern- und Schauspielhaus Frankfurt. In 1975 he joined the ensemble of the Bavarian State Theatre (Residenz Theatre) in Munich. From the 1950s on Lieffen became known to a wider public for his film appearances, like the role of the brisk chauffeur Fritz in Billy Wilder's ''One, Two, Three''. He died in Starnberg, Germany. Selected filmography * ''Encounter with Werther'' (1949) - Bediensteter Bursche * '' Sensation in Savoy'' (1950) * ''The Beggar Student'' (1956) - Major Wangenheim * ''Haie und kleine Fische'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Bessler
Albert Bessler (15 February 1905 – 4 December 1975) was a German film actor. He appeared in 40 films between 1942 and 1975. He was born in Hamburg, Germany and died in West Berlin, West Germany. Partial filmography * ''Front Theatre'' (1942) - Ein Offizier (uncredited) * ''Berliner Ballade'' (1948) - (uncredited) * ''The Blue Swords'' (1949) - Finanzminister * '' The Perfect Couple'' (1954) * ''Confess, Doctor Corda'' (1958) - Dr. Dollheubel * '' Restless Night'' (1958) * ''Majestät auf Abwegen'' (1958) - Filmdirektor * ''Aus dem Tagebuch eines Frauenarztes'' (1959) - Landgerichtsdirektor * ''Menschen im Hotel'' (1959) - Dr. Altendorfer (uncredited) * ''The Death Ship'' (1959) - US-Konsul * '' The High Life'' (1960) - Monsieur Onyx * '' Sweetheart of the Gods'' (1960) - Ministerialrat * '' The Avenger'' (1960) - Zeitungsmann * '' Brainwashed'' (1960) - Scientist * ''The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse'' (1960) - Hotel-Ingenieur * ''Carnival Confession'' (1960) - Dr. Classen * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Balthoff
Alfred Balthoff (1905 – 1989) was a German stage, film and television actor. He also worked as a voice actor, dubbing foreign releases for the German-speaking market. Of Jewish background, he spent the final years of the Nazi era in hiding.Noack p.257 In the immediate post-war years he made several films in the Eastern Zone for DEFA, but later established himself in West Germany. Selected filmography * ''Marriage in the Shadows'' (1947) * ''Wozzeck'' (1947) * '' The Marriage of Figaro'' (1949) * '' Our Daily Bread'' (1949) * '' Love's Awakening'' (1953) * ''The Great Test'' (1954) * '' Bon Voyage'' (1954) * ''Confess, Doctor Corda'' (1958) * ''Dorothea Angermann'' (1959) * ''A Thousand Stars Aglitter'' (1959) * ''The Death Ship'' (1959) * '' Blind Justice'' (1961) * '' Murderer in the Fog'' (1964) * ''All People Will Be Brothers ''All People Will Be Brothers'' (german: Alle Menschen werden Brüder) is a 1973 West German drama film directed by Alfred Vohrer and starring Harald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Günter Meisner
Günter Meisner (18 April 1926 – 5 December 1994) was a German film and television character actor. He is remembered for his several cinematic portrayals of Adolf Hitler and for his role as Arthur Slugworth in ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory''. He was fluent in four languages and appeared in many English-language, German-language and French-language films. Career Born in Bremen, Meisner briefly worked at a steel foundry before training as a radio operator with the Luftwaffe's ''Fallschirmjäger'' (paratroopers). After the war, though he was interested in a career in sculpture and painting, in 1948 he switched to drama and studied under Gustaf Gründgens at Düsseldorf's State Conservatory, where he also got his first job at the local ''Schauspielhaus''. Film and TV Meisner often played stock character Nazi officers and other sinister characters. He portrayed Hitler in the 1982 Franco-German action comedy, ''L'as des as'' (Ace of Aces), and in the ABC television miniseri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar O
Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name ''Eadgar'' (composed of '' ead'' "rich, prosperous" and ''gar'' "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon names, it fell out of use by the later medieval period; it was, however, revived in the 18th century, and was popularised by its use for a character in Sir Walter Scott's ''The Bride of Lammermoor'' (1819). People with the given name * Edgar the Peaceful (942–975), king of England * Edgar the Ætheling (c. 1051 – c. 1126), last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England * Edgar of Scotland (1074–1107), king of Scotland * Edgar Angara, Filipino lawyer * Edgar Barrier, American actor * Edgar Baumann, Paraguayan javelin thrower * Edgar Bergen, American actor, radio performer, ventriloquist * Edgar Berlanga, American boxer * Edgar H. Brown, American mathematician * Edgar Buchanan, American actor * Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author, creator of ''Tarzan'' * Edgar Cantero, Spanish author in Catalan, Span ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panos Papadopulos
Panos Papadopulos (Greek language, Greek: Πάνος Παπαδόπουλος; 1 August 1920, in Giresun, Kerassus, Ottoman Empire – 18 February 2001, in Munich) was a Greek actor. Selected filmography * ''Hello, Fraulein!'' (1949) – Musiker * ''Jonny Saves Nebrador'' (1953) * ''The Cousin from Nowhere (1953 film), The Cousin from Nowhere'' (1953) * ''Conchita and the Engineer'' (1954) * ''Beloved Corinna'' (1956) – Longo * ''The Copper (1958 film), The Copper'' (1958) – Heini – der Taschendieb (uncredited) * ''Peter Voss, der Millionendieb'' (1958) – Doctor – Hong Kong (uncredited) * ' (1958) * ''Rommel Calls Cairo'' (1959) – Sharani * ''The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959 film), The Tiger of Eschnapur'' (1959) – Courier (uncredited) * ''The Indian Tomb (1959 film), The Indian Tomb'' (1959) – Dagh's messenger (uncredited) * ''The Death Ship (1959 film), The Death Ship'' (1959) – Popoff, Bulgarischer Dockarbeiter * ''Salem Aleikum'' (1959) * ''Peter Voss, Hero of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
