Olaf Storm, pseudonym of Kurt Theodor von Kann (10 January 1894 – 11 or 12 March 1931) was a German

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of the

silent era 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) ...

. Storm was a star of early German cinema, playing the lead in films such as '' The Stranger from Alster Street'' and had his own production company

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. He also appeared in supporting roles in '' The Last Laugh'' and ''

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''.Rhodes p.70

Selected filmography

* '' Nat Pinkerton'' (1920) * '' Your Brother's Wife'' (1921) * '' From the Files of a Respectable Woman'' (1920) * '' Begierde'' (1921) * '' The Stranger from Alster Street'' (1921) * '' Miss Julie'' (1922) * '' The Moneylender's Daughter'' (1922) * '' Girl of the Berlin Streets'' (1922) * '' The Voice of the Heart'' (1924) * '' The Last Laugh'' (1924) * '' False Shame'' (1926) * '' Weekend Magic'' (1927) * ''

'' (1927) * '' Forbidden Love'' (1927)

References

Bibliography

* Grange, William. ''Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic''.Scarecrow Press, 2008. * Rhodes, Gary Don. ''Lugosi: His Life in Films, on Stage, and in the Hearts of Horror Lovers''. McFarland, 2006.

External links

* 1894 births 1931 deaths German male film actors German male silent film actors 20th-century German male actors {{Germany-actor-stub