''His Best Friend'' (German:''Sein bester Freund'') is a 1918 German

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized 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) or key lines of dialogue may, when ...

directed by

Uwe Jens Krafft Uwe Jens Krafft (born Gustav Heinrich Walter Krafft; 23 December 1878 – 12 December 1929) was a German actor, film director, screenwriter, set designer, and film editor. He directed more than fifteen films from 1917 to 1929. Selected filmograph ...

and starring

Max Landa Max Landa ( be, Макс Ландаў; 24 April 1873 – 8 November 1933; born Max Landau) was a Russian-born Austrian silent film and stage actor. Career Landa attended the Handelsakademie (commercial academy) in Vienna and took classes with a ...

as the detective

Joe Deebs Joe Deebs was a fictional detective who appeared in a series of German films and serials during the silent era. Along with Stuart Webbs and a number of other fictional cinema detective characters with Anglo-Saxon names, he was modeled on Arth ...

.Parish & Canham p.192

Cast

In alphabetical order * Wilhelm Diegelmann * Käthe Haack *

as Joe Deebs *

Lina Paulsen Lina (pronounced "Leena") is a feminine given name. Languages of origin include: English, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Persian, Kurdish, Arabic. It is also the short form of a variety of names ending in -lina including Catalin ...

as Tante Wilhelmine *

Hermann Picha Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting r ...

References

Bibliography

* James Robert Parish & Kingsley Canham. ''Film Directors Guide: Western Europe''. Scarecrow Press, 1976.

External links

* 1918 films Films directed by Uwe Jens Krafft German silent feature films Films of the German Empire German black-and-white films 1910s German films {{1910s-Germany-film-stub