Adolphe Engers (1884–1945) was a Dutch writer and actor on stage and in the movies, who appeared in more than fifty films during his career, a number of them in

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Biography

Before his career in film, he was an actor on the stage and a writer. In 1920, he published ''Peccavi...???'', a then-scandalous novel with a gay protagonist, co-written with fellow actor Ernst Winar. A performer of considerable talent, he was to be honored for his achievements on the stage in the 1930s by an honorary committee that included Simon Carmiggelt, who related that, when the committee members understood that Engers himself was gay, withdrew from the committee one after the other. Other works were a screenplay about the closing of the

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, which created the artificial lake IJsselmeer, in which he was to act as well (only promotional footage for the project seems to remain), and a play about Oscar Wilde, published in 1917, whose main themes are norms and deviancy; "deviancy" in Engers' play includes art and beauty, which are crushed by the normality of everyday society. He appeared in the 1922 German-Dutch co-production '' The Man in the Background''.Andriopoulos p.166

Selected filmography

References

Bibliography

* Andriopoulos, Stefan. ''Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema''. University of Chicago Press, 2008.

External links

* 1884 births 1955 deaths Dutch male film actors Dutch male silent film actors People from Gulpen-Wittem {{Netherlands-actor-stub