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Unknown Sender (film)
''Unknown Sender'' (german: Absender unbekannt) is a 1950 West German comedy film directed by Ákos Ráthonyi and starring Henny Porten, Bruni Löbel and Cornell Borchers.Parish p. 244 It was shot at the Wandsbek Studios in Hamburg. The film's sets were designed by the art director Mathias Matthies. Cast * Henny Porten as Direktorin * Bruni Löbel as Magda Lehmann * Cornell Borchers as Dr. Elisabeth Markert * Käthe Haack as Frau Lehmann * Ursula Herking as Frau Bock * Marina Ried as Adele * Hans Richter as Dr. Alfred Braun * Volker von Collande as Fredy Brown * Paul Kemp as Schuldiener Bock * Hubert von Meyerinck as Schmoll, Lehrer * Rudolf Platte as Lehrer Zirbel * Albert Florath as Professor Wagner * Willy Maertens as Herr Lehmann * Friedl Rostock as Dora * Ingeborg Körner as Brigitte * Ann Höling as Edith * Ilse Zielstorff as Rosemarie * Katharina von Miculicz-Radesci as Eva * Petra Unkel as Wilma * Ilse Gottburg as Claire * Gustl Busch as Stine * Änne Bruck as Frau Riede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ákos Ráthonyi
Ákos Ráthonyi (26 March 1908 – 6 January 1969) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 42 films between 1936 and 1968. He was born in Budapest, Hungary and died in Munich, West Germany. Selected filmography * ''Sarajevo (1940 Hungarian film), Sarajevo'' (1940) * ''Renee XIV'' (1946, uncompleted) * ''Unknown Sender (film), Unknown Sender'' (1950) * ''You Have to be Beautiful'' (1951) * ''Don't Blame the Stork'' (1954) * ''Mrs. Warren's Profession (film), Mrs. Warren's Profession'' (1960) * ''The Devil's Daffodil'' (1961) * ''Beloved Impostor (1961 film), Beloved Impostor'' (1961) * ''The Phony American'' (1961) * ''Cave of the Living Dead'' (1964) * ''Take Off Your Clothes, Doll'' (1968) References External links * 1908 births 1969 deaths Hungarian film directors Hungarian male screenwriters German-language film directors 20th-century Hungarian screenwriters {{Hungary-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathias Matthies
Mathias Matthies (August 7, 1911 – September 30, 2004) was a German art director. He designed the sets for around a hundred films and television programmes. He often collaborated with his wife Ellen Schmidt, including on some Edgar Wallace adaptations made by Rialto Film.Bergfelder p. 254 Selected filmography * '' Dangerous Guests'' (1949) * ''Derby'' (1949) * ''My Wife's Friends'' (1949) * '' Unknown Sender'' (1950) * ''The Allure of Danger'' (1950) * ''Abundance of Life'' (1950) * '' Dark Eyes'' (1951) * ''The Sinful Border'' (1951) * ''My Wife Is Being Stupid'' (1952) * '' Shooting Stars'' (1952) * '' Wedding in Transit'' (1953) * '' The Bogeyman'' (1953) * ''Men at a Dangerous Age'' (1954) * '' Don't Worry About Your Mother-in-Law'' (1954) * ''Doctor Solm'' (1955) * ''I Was an Ugly Girl'' (1955) * ''My Children and I'' (1955) * ''Father's Day'' (1955) * '' The Old Forester House'' (1956) * ''The First Day of Spring'' (1956) * '' The Girl from the Marsh Croft'' (1958) * '' C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Änne Bruck
Änne Bruck (23 August 1907 – 13 December 1978) was a German actress. She appeared in more than 45 films and television shows between 1936 and 1978. Biography Bruck began her acting career in films from 1936. She was on the Gottbegnadeten list of the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda in 1944. After the war, she also initially appeared in DEFA productions, such as "Der Mann, dem man den Namen stahl" (1945), directed by Wolfgang Staudte. In the scandalous film Die Sünderin (1951), she impersonated the mother of the leading actress Hildegard Knef. She also voiced numerous roles in radio drama productions. From the 1960s, she was increasingly active in television series. She was married to the actor Heinz Frölich until her death in 1978. Selected filmography * '' Midsummer Night's Fire'' (1939) * ''Commissioner Eyck'' (1940) * '' The Millionaire'' (1947) * ''Second Hand Destiny'' (1949) * '' Unknown Sender'' (1950) * ''Blondes for Export'' (1950) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petra Unkel
Petra Unkel (3 March 1925 – 2001), also known as Petra Unkel-Klinder, was a Hungarian-born actress of German film, singer, voice actress, radio spokesperson and cabaret artist, who was active in the industry from 1929 until 1958. Life and career Unkel was born in Budapest, in what was then the Kingdom of Hungary, as the daughter of opera tenor Petra Unkel (1880–1942), Unkel started became her career as a child star. She made her debut appearance on screen in 1929 as a four-year-old during the silent film era, in ''Napoleon at Saint Helena'', starring Werner Krauss as Napoleon. Her first starring role came three years after in the 1932, operetta film '' Melody of Love''. Making the successful transition as an adult star, she appeared in films for the next four decades, with her final screen appearance in 1958. From 1946 she also appeared as a performer and singer in cabaret. As a voice artist she lent herself to becoming a radio spokeswoman, and provided voices for such sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingeborg Körner
Ingeborg Körner is a Namibian-born German actress. Selected filmography * '' Dangerous Guests'' (1949) * '' Unknown Sender'' (1950) * ''Abundance of Life'' (1950) * '' The House in Montevideo'' (1951) * '' Toxi'' (1952) * ''When The Village Music Plays on Sunday Nights'' (1953) * ''Not Afraid of Big Animals ''Not Afraid of Big Animals'' (german: Keine Angst vor großen Tieren) is a 1953 West German comedy film directed by Ulrich Erfurth and starring Heinz Rühmann, Ingeborg Körner and Gustav Knuth.Bock & Bergfelder p. 340 It is a circus film and a ...'' (1953) * '' The Rose of Stamboul'' (1953) * '' The Perfect Couple'' (1954) * '' My Leopold'' (1955) External links * 1929 births Living people White Namibian people Namibian people of German descent German film actresses German television actresses People from Keetmanshoop 20th-century German actresses {{Germany-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Maertens
Willy Maertens (1893–1967) was a German film and television actor. He was married to the actress Charlotte Kramm with whom he had a son Peter Maertens. Selected filmography * ''Attack on Baku'' (1942) - Notar beim dänischen Ölherrn Jenssen * ''In Those Days'' (1947) - Wilhelm Bienert / 3. Geschichte * ''Nora's Ark'' (1948) - Willi Lüdecke * '' The Original Sin'' (1948) * '' Unknown Sender'' (1950) - Herr Lehmann - Magdas Vater * ''Only One Night'' (1950) * ' (1950) - Dr. Bing * '' You Have to be Beautiful'' (1951) - Arzt * ''Engel im Abendkleid'' (1951) * ''Under the Thousand Lanterns'' (1952) - Mahnke, Gerichtsvollzieher * ''Toxi'' (1952) - Kriminal-Inspektor Plaukart * ''Oh, You Dear Fridolin'' (1952) - Dr. Mond, Verleger * ''I'm Waiting for You'' (1952) - Hausmeister Wagner * ''Not Afraid of Big Animals'' (1953) - Lawyer Immelmann * ''It Was Always So Nice With You'' (1954) - Hannemann - Elisabeths Vater * ''Consul Strotthoff'' (1954) * ''Geständnis unter vier Augen'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Florath
Albert Peter Adam Florath (7 December 1888, Bielefeld – 11 March 1957, Gaildorf) was a German stage and film actor. Early life and education Born to Joseph Florath, a locksmith, and his wife Matilda, née Burkart, he attended school in Brakel and the Realgymnasium in Paderborn. He was bailiff candidate in Delbrück, where he was active in the welfare, church and school department and the police administration. Acting career Florath gained first stage experience in amateur dramatic groups of local clubs in Delbrück. In 1908, Florath gave up his career in office and went to Munich-Schwabing, to devote himself entirely to acting. He debuted in 1908 as a stage actor at the court theater in Munich. He took acting lessons with Alois Wohlmut and, as a sideline, wrote feuilleton contributions. When the First World War began, Florath interrupted his artistic career, volunteering as a reserve lieutenant and serving as an instructor of recruits. His wartime experiences caused him t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Platte
Rudolf Antonius Heinrich Platte (12 February 1904 – 18 December 1984) was a German actor. Biography Born in Hörde, Westphalia (today part of Dortmund) the son of a merchant, his family moved to Hildesheim three years later. Rudolf left school at the age of 16 to take acting lessons, making his debut in 1925 as Shylock in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice'' in Düsseldorf. Two years later he moved to Berlin, where he together with Werner Finck and Hans Deppe founded the cabaret '' Die Katakombe''. From 1929 onward, Platte performed in more than 200 film roles, embodying the shy and underestimated, likeable "Little Man". In 1940 he succeeded Ralph Arthur Roberts as director of the Theater in der Behrenstraße in Berlin (right beside the present-day Komische Oper) until its final closure in 1944. From 1945 to 1947 he directed the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, which in 1954 became home of the Berliner Ensemble theatre company. After World War II, Platte could continue his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Von Meyerinck
Hubert "Hubsi" von Meyerinck (23 August 1896 – 13 May 1971) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 280 films between 1921 and 1970. Biography Meyerinck was born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, the son of Friedrich von Meyerinck (1858–1928), Hauptmann (Captain) in the Prussian Army. He grew up at his family's estates in the Province of Posen and attended the gymnasium secondary school in Godeberg. Having passed his Abitur exams, he was called up for military service as a cadet in World War I, but soon was dismissed due to a pulmonary disease. In 1917 he gave his debut as a theatre actor at the Schauspielhaus in Berlin and from 1918 to 1920 continued his career at the Hamburg Kammerspiele. Back in Berlin he performed in avant-garde plays by Carl Sternheim, as well as in several revue entertainments and kabarett venues. Later he returned to classical theatre with engagements at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater, performing as '' The Imaginary Invalid'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Kemp (actor)
Paul Kemp (20 May 1896 – 13 August 1953) was a German stage and film actor. Kemp worked as a piano accompaniest for silent films, and then served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War. Post-war he moved into acting on the stage in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. His career really took off when he moved to Berlin in 1929, appearing in the hit stage version of the novel ''Menschen im Hotel'' by Vicki Baum. He made his film debut in 1930, shortly after the introduction of sound film. He appeared prolifically in German and Austrian films until his death in 1953. Selected filmography * ''Cyanide'' (1930) - Kuckuck * ' (1930) - Aufnahmeleiter * '' The King of Paris'' (1930) * ''Rag Ball'' (1930) - Priem * ''The Great Longing'' (1930) - Regieassistent Mopp * ''Dolly Gets Ahead'' (1930) - Jack * ''The Blonde Nightingale'' (1930) - Hirschfield * ''The Threepenny Opera'' (1931) - Mackie Messers Platte * ''Seitensprünge'' (1931) - Anton Schiller * '' M'' (1931) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volker Von Collande
Volker von Collande (21 November 1913 – 29 October 1990) was a German actor and film director. He appeared in more than 40 films between 1934 and 1987. He also directed more than 20 films between 1942 and 1967. Collande was a member of the Nazi Party.Klee, Ernst ''Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945'', p. 100. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007 Selected filmography Actor * '' Rivalen der Luft'' (1934) - Hanne aus Hamburg, Flugschüler * '' Hermine and the Seven Upright Men'' (1935) * '' The Student of Prague'' (1935) - Zavrel * '' The Higher Command'' (1935) - Bürger * '' Winter in the Woods'' (1936) - Hartwig, Glasbläster * '' The Traitor'' (1936) - Referendar Kröpke * '' Thunder, Lightning and Sunshine'' (1936) - Andreas, sein Sohn * '' Togger'' (1937) - Redakteur Hallmann * '' Capers'' (1937) - William Baxter * ''Das Ehesanatorium'' (1938) - Stephan Seidlitz * ''Eine Frau kommt in die Tropen'' (1938) - Herbert - sein Bruder * ''Schwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Richter (actor)
Hans Richter (12 January 1919 – 5 October 2008) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1931 and 1984, mostly in supporting roles. He was born in Brandenburg, Germany and died in Heppenheim, Germany. Life and career Hans Richter made his film debut as "Fliegender Hirsch" in Gerhard Lamprecht's ''Emil and the Detectives'' (1931), based on the novel of the same name by Erich Kästner. In the following years, Richter become a popular juvenile actor; often playing clever, somewhat cheeky boys (a type similar to Mickey Rooney in the American film during the 1930s). When he reached legal age, he had appeared in over 50 films. After his supporting role as a lazy schoolboy in ''Die Feuerzangenbowle'' (1944), Richter got drafted into the German Wehrmacht and was also in war imprisonment for some time. After the World War, Richter worked as a cabaret artist and also appeared in numerous of the popular Heimatfilms, among them '' The Black Forest Girl'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |