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Peter Capell
Peter Capell (3 September 1912 – 3 March 1986) was a German actor who was active on screen from 1945 until 1985. Apart from a lengthy film career, he appeared in many television series and mini-series. He appeared in many old time radio programs including the series '' Dimension X''. His first role was in '' Winterset'', shortly after the end of the Second World War. His final role came a year before his death, when he appeared in ''Mamas Geburtstag''. Both of these were television productions. He also appeared in many films, including ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' (1971). Capell was also in Stanley Kubrick's 1957 war film ''Paths of Glory'' (he also narrated the film's opening sequence), co-starring Kirk Douglas. Death Capell died in Munich, West Germany on March 3, 1986, aged 73. No cause of death was announced. Selected filmography * ''Walk East on Beacon'' (1952) - Chris Zalenko / Gino * ' (1955) - Robert Fleming * ''The Story of Anastasia'' (1956) * '' My ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituent states, Berlin is surrounded by the State of Brandenburg and contiguous with Potsdam, Brandenburg's capital. Berlin's urban area, which has a population of around 4.5 million, is the second most populous urban area in Germany after the Ruhr. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's third-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr and Rhine-Main regions. Berlin straddles the banks of the Spree, which flows into the Havel (a tributary of the Elbe) in the western borough of Spandau. Among the city's main topographical features are the many lakes in the western and southeastern boroughs formed by the Spree, Havel and Dahme, the largest of which is Lake Müggelsee. Due to its l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Louise (1957 Film)
''Queen Louise'' (german: Königin Luise) is a 1957 West German historical film, historical drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Dieter Borsche and Bernhard Wicki. It was made at the Emelka Studios in Munich, with sets designed by the art director Rolf Zehetbauer. The film depicts the life of Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the wife of Frederick William III of Prussia, and her stand against Napoleon during the Napoleonic Wars. It was one of a number of films made during the 1950s that portrayed historical royal Germany in a positive manner.Hake p. 114 It is similar in theme to the Prussian film genre which had been popular between the two World Wars including two previous films about Louise ''Queen Louise (1927 film), Queen Louise'' (1927) and ''Louise, Queen of Prussia (film), Louise, Queen of Prussia'' (1931). Cast * Ruth Leuwerik as Königin Luise * Dieter Borsche as König Friedrich Wilhelm * Bernhard Wicki as Zar Alexander * René Deltgen as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Deal In Danger
''I Deal in Danger'' is a 1966 American DeLuxe Color spy film compiled from the first four episodes of a television series, ''Blue Light (TV series), Blue Light'', which aired on American Broadcasting Company, ABC-TV in early 1966. Directed by Walter Grauman, it starred Robert Goulet as David March, an Allies of World War II, Allied spy in Nazi Germany during World War II. He is aided by a French agent, Susanne Duchard, played by Christine Carère. Plot In Nazi Germany during World War II, David March (Robert Goulet) is an American traitor who has been given wide access to travel as he wishes within Germany. Unbeknownst to the Germans, March is actually an American spy, the last remaining from a spy ring, known as Blue Light. As time goes on, he has been able to work his way higher and higher within the Nazi intelligence apparatus, however he is suspected by a Nazi Gestapo officer, Captain Elm (Werner Peters). Along the way, he meets Susanne Duchard (Christine Carère), a French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Counterfeit Traitor
''The Counterfeit Traitor'' is a 1962 espionage thriller film starring William Holden, Hugh Griffith, and Lilli Palmer. Holden plays an American-born Swedish citizen who agrees to spy on the Nazis in World War II. It was based on a nonfiction book of the same name by Alexander Klein. The film was directed by George Seaton. Plot Erickson (Holden) is an American-born Swedish oil man who is pressured by Allied intelligence agents, led by a British agent (Griffith), to spy for the Allies. Erickson begins his job reluctantly, as it causes marital discord and forces him to pose as a Nazi. He agrees because otherwise his business would be destroyed by the Allies, but over time, realizes it is the right thing to do. He is influenced in making this moral decision by one of his contacts in Germany, a religious woman (Lilli Palmer) who gives him guidance on the meaning of life and right and wrong. Erickson has a number of close calls, but eventually escapes to Sweden in a harrowing sea voy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auf Wiedersehen (film)
''Auf Wiedersehen '' is a 1961 West German film directed by Harald Philipp and starring Gert Fröbe, Joachim Fuchsberger, Günter Pfitzmann, Werner Peters and Elke Sommer. It was based on a novel by Reinhold Pabel and features Louis Armstrong in a cameo role. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin. Location shooting took place in Gibraltar, Spain and Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Otto Erdmann and Oskar Pietsch. Cast * Gert Fröbe as Angelo Pirrone * Joachim Fuchsberger as Ferdinand Steinbichler * Günter Pfitzmann as Willi Kuhlke * Elke Sommer as Suzy Dalton * Werner Peters as Paul Blümel * Margot Eskens as Anna Kuhlke * Heinz Weiss as Steve O'Hara * Kurd Pieritz as Gus Wheeler * Fritz Tillmann as George Dalton * Stanislav Ledinek as Konrad Czerny * Hans W. Hamacher as William Shake * Peter Capell as Louis Holloway * Heinrich Gies as Don Howley * Hendrik Sick as Pietro * Louis Armstrong as Himself * Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann Kurt Pra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One, Two, Three
''One, Two, Three'' is a 1961 American political comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and written by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond. It is based on the 1929 Hungarian one-act play ''Egy, kettő, három'' by Ferenc Molnár, with a "plot borrowed partly from" ''Ninotchka'', a 1939 film co-written by Wilder. The comedy features James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Liselotte Pulver, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Leon Askin, Howard St. John, and others. It would be Cagney's last film appearance until ''Ragtime'' in 1981, 20 years later.Neal Gabler (commentary), ''Reel 13'', March 29, 2008. The film is primarily set in West Berlin during the Cold War, but before the construction of the Berlin Wall, and politics is predominant in the premise. The film is known for its quick pace. Plot C.R. "Mac" MacNamara is a high-ranking executive in the Coca-Cola Company, assigned to West Berlin after a business fiasco a few years earlier in the Middle East (about which he is still bitter). While based in W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armored Command
''Armored Command'' is a 1961 American war drama film directed by Byron Haskin and starring Howard Keel and Tina Louise. It was filmed in Hohenfels, Bavaria, but takes place in the Vosges Mountains during the Southern France campaign. "It was the one picture that Howard Keel didn't sing on", reminisced Burt Reynolds later. "That was a terrible mistake." Plot The Germans use a female spy to infiltrate an American position to get information on the movement of troops at the height of the Ardennes offensive. Cast * Howard Keel as Colonel Devlin * Tina Louise as Alexandra Bastegar * Warner Anderson as Lieutenant Colonel Wilson * Earl Holliman as Mike * Carleton Young as Captain Bart Macklin * Burt Reynolds as "Skee" * James Dobson as Arab * Marty Ingels as "Pinhead" * Clem Harvey as "Tex" * Maurice Marsac as Jean Robert * Lieutenant Colonel Thomas A. Ryan as Major * Peter Capell as Little General * Charles Nolte as Captain Swan * Brandon Maggart Production Ron Alcorn produced a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Show (1961 Film)
''The Big Show'' is a 1961 DeLuxe Color and CinemaScope drama film directed by James B. Clark, starring Esther Williams and Cliff Robertson. The cast also includes Robert Vaughn, Margia Dean, Nehemiah Persoff and David Nelson, who was best known to audiences of the time for ''The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet'' television show. This is the third variation of Jerome Weidman's novel ''I'll Never Go There Any More''. The other two are ''Broken Lance'' (1954) a western version starring Spencer Tracy, and ''House of Strangers'' (1949) set in the big city starring Edward G. Robinson. Plot Bruno Everhard (Persoff) is the rigid and uncompromising owner of a German traveling circus. His four sons and daughter all work for the circus, including as performers. Three of the boys, in particular Klaus (Vaughn), resent the favoritism Bruno shows one son, Josef (Robertson). To curry his father's favor, Klaus abandons his sweetheart, circus aerialist Carlotta Martinez (Dean), to instead mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Aim At The Stars
I, or i, is the ninth letter and the third vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''i'' (pronounced ), plural '' ies''. History In the Phoenician alphabet, the letter may have originated in a hieroglyph for an arm that represented a voiced pharyngeal fricative () in Egyptian, but was reassigned to (as in English "yes") by Semites, because their word for "arm" began with that sound. This letter could also be used to represent , the close front unrounded vowel, mainly in foreign words. The Greeks adopted a form of this Phoenician ''yodh'' as their letter ''iota'' () to represent , the same as in the Old Italic alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek), it was also used to represent and this use persists in the languages that descended from Latin. The modern letter ' j' originated as a variation of 'i', and both were used interchangeably for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For The First Time (1959 Film)
''For the First Time'' is a 1959 musical film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Mario Lanza, Johanna von Koczian Kurt Kasznar and Zsa Zsa Gabor. It was tenor star Mario Lanza's final film, released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer six weeks before his death. The film tells the sentimental story of an operatic tenor (Tony Costa) who finds love for the first time with a young German woman (played by Johanna von Koczian), who happens to be deaf. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in 1958 in Capri, Salzburg, Berlin and at the Rome Opera House. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Hans Jürgen Kiebach, Fritz Maurischat and Heinrich Weidemann. Reception Critics singled out Lanza's singing of "Vesti la Giubba" from ''Pagliacci'' and the Death Scene from ''Otello'' for special praise, with Howard Thompson of ''The New York Times'' calling it the tenor's "most disarming vehicle in years." Cast * Mario Lanza as Tonio Costa * Johanna von Koczian as Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiga (1958 Film)
''Taiga'' is a 1958 West German drama film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Hannes Messemer and Günter Pfitzmann.Frey p. 44 It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Robert Herlth and Gottfried Will. The title refers to the taiga that covers much of Siberia. Synopsis After the Second World War a female Doctor tends to the German prisoners held in a camp in Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive region, geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a .... Cast References Bibliography * Frey, Mattias. ''Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History and Cinephilia''. Berghahn Books, 2013. External links * 1958 films West German films German drama films 1958 drama films 1950s German-language films Films directed by Wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Vikings (1958 Film)
''The Vikings'' is a 1958 American epic historical fiction swashbuckling film directed by Richard Fleischer and filmed in Technicolor. It was produced by Jerry Bresler and stars Kirk Douglas. It is based on the 1951 novel ''The Viking'' by Edison Marshall, which in turn is based on material from the sagas of Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons. Other starring roles were taken by then husband-and-wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh as well as Ernest Borgnine. The film made notable use of natural locations in Norway. It was mostly filmed in Maurangerfjorden and Maurangsnes, captured on film by cinematographer Jack Cardiff, although Aella's castle was the real Fort-la-Latte in north-east Brittany in France. Despite being derisively called a "Norse Opera" by ''New York Times'' critic Bosley Crowther, the film proved a major box office success and spawned the television series '' Tales of the Vikings'', directed by the film's editor, Elmo Williams, which included none of the original ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
