Carl Alwin Heinrich Neuß (17 June 1879 – 30 October 1935) was a German film director and actor, noted for playing
Sherlock Holmes in a series of
silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...
s during the 1910s. He also played the dual role of Jekyll and Hyde in the 1910 Danish silent film version of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'', directed by
August Blom
August Blom (26 December 1869 – 10 January 1947) was a Danish film director, producer, and pioneer of silent films during the "golden age" of Danish filmmaking from 1910 to 1914.
Career
Blom began his acting career in 1893 in Kolding, and was ...
. He played Jekyll and Hyde again in the 1914 German silent film ''Ein Seltsamer Fall'' (translation: ''A Strange Case''), scripted by
Richard Oswald.
Selected filmography
* ''Sherlock Holmes'' (1908)
* ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'' (Danish silent film, 1910)
* ''Hamlet'' (1911)
* ''The Flight'' (1912)
* ''Ein Seltsamer Fall'' (1914) a German film adaptation of ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde''
* ''
Detektiv Braun
''Detektiv Braun'' ( en, Detective Brown, italic=yes, link=yes) is a 1914 German silent crime film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Alwin Neuß and Friedrich Kühne. It was part of a series of German films featuring Neuß as Arthur Cona ...
'' (1914)
* ''
Der Hund von Baskerville
''Der Hund von Baskerville'' is a 1914 German silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 novel '' The Hound of the Baskervilles'', the first film adaptation of the work. According to the website silentera.com, the film was considered ...
''/ ''Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1914) German film directed by Rudolph Meinert
* ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1915) rival German film directed by
Richard Oswald[Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. . Page 73.]
* ''Dynamite'' (1916)
* ''The Cowboy'' (1918)
* ''The Man From Havelock'' (1917)
* ''
Clown Charly'' (1918)
* ''
Bettler GmbH
''Bettler GmbH'' is a 1919 German silent film directed by Alwin Neuß and starring Paul Otto and Lil Dagover.Hardt p. 215–216
Cast
* Fritz Achterberg
* Lil Dagover
* Fred Goebel
* Alwin Neuß as Bobby
* Paul Otto
Paul Otto Schlesing ...
'' (1919)
* ''
Revenge Is Mine'' (1919)
* ''
The Diadem of the Czarina'' (1922)
* ''
By Order of Pompadour
''By Order of Pompadour'' (german: Auf Befehl der Pompadour) is a 1924 German silent historical film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Alwin Neuß, Lya Mara, and Frida Richard.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Willi He ...
'' (1924)
* ''
Strong Winds'' (1924)
* ''
Two and a Lady
''Die Zwei und die Dame'' (German: ''Two and a Lady'') is a 1926 German silent comedy crime film directed by Alwin Neuß and starring Agnes Esterhazy, Bernhard Goetzke and Henry Stuart. It was based on a novel by Sven Elvestad. It premiered ...
'' (1926)
* ''
Street Acquaintances'' (1929)
* ''The Old Life'' (1930)
* ''
Dance Into Happiness'' (1930)
Bibliography
* Hardy, Phil (ed.). ''The BFI Companion to Crime''. Continuum, 1997.
* Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 211. .
* Kinnard,Roy (1995). "Horror in Silent Films". McFarland and Company Inc. .
References
External links
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1879 births
1935 deaths
Film directors from North Rhine-Westphalia
German male film actors
German male stage actors
German male silent film actors
Film people from Cologne
20th-century German male actors
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