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The Big Bluff (1933 German Film)
''The Big Bluff'' (german: Der Große Bluff) is a 1933 German comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Lee Parry, Betty Amann, and Harald Paulsen. It was shot at the EFA Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Erich Czerwonski. Synopsis Thieves break into the villa of film star Marion Millner, but only make her with her imitation jewellery. producer Otto Pitt is delighted as they are making a crime film and thinks the break-in will make great publicity for the production. Cast * Lee Parry as Gisa Langer *Betty Amann as Marion Millner * Harald Paulsen as Harry Neuhoff *Otto Wallburg as Otto Pitt, Generaldirektor * Paul Hörbiger as Arthur Richman *Adele Sandrock as Frau Timm * Hugo Fischer-Köppe as Kommissar Keller *Walter Steinbeck as Der Kriminalrat * Theo Lingen as Der Pressechef *Sigurd Lohde as Der Regisseur *Gerti Ober as Die Zofe *Fred Immler as Paul, der Komplize *Alfred Beierle as Kriminalbeamter Kube * Adolf E. Licho as Parad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Jacoby
Georg Jacoby (23 July 1882 – 21 February 1964) was a German film director and screenwriter. , bfi.org.uk; accessed 11 December 2016. Biography Jacoby was born in Mainz, Germany, the son of (1855-1925), a German comedic , who concentrated largely on creating s, such as '''' (1883) and ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Star
A movie star (also known as a film star or cinema star) is an actor or actress who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in movies. The term is used for performers who are marketable stars as they become popular household names and whose names are used to promote movies, for example in trailers and posters. The most prominent movie stars are known in the industry as bankable stars. United States Hollywood's early years In the early days of silent movies, the names of the actors and actresses appearing in them were not publicized or credited because producers feared this would result in demands for higher salaries.100 years of movie stars: 1910-1929 , ''The Independent'', January 25, 2010. However, audience curiosity soon undermined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Dammann
Gerhard Dammann (30 March 1883 – 21 February 1946) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * '' The Man in the Cellar'' (1914) * '' Under the Lantern'' (1928) * '' Eva in Silk'' (1928) * '' Lemke's Widow'' (1928) * '' When the Mother and the Daughter'' (1928) * '' The Strange Night of Helga Wangen'' (1928) * '' Death Drive for the World Record'' (1929) * ''Children of the Street'' (1929) * ''Zwei Brüder'' (1929) * ''Woman in the Moon'' (1929) * '' Roses Bloom on the Moorland'' (1929) * '' Sin and Morality'' (1929) * '' Giftgas'' (1929) * ''Masks'' (1929) * '' Painted Youth'' (1929) * '' The Cabinet of Doctor Larifari'' (1930) * '' Rag Ball'' (1930) * '' Marriage Strike'' (1930) * '' My Leopold'' (1931) * '' Grock'' (1931) * '' Without Meyer, No Celebration is Complete'' (1931) * ''Marriage with Limited Liability'' (1931) * '' Different Morals'' (1931) * '' Crime Reporter Holm'' (1932) * '' Between Night and Dawn'' (1931) * '' A Crafty Youth'' (1931) * '' Bobby Gets Going ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolf E
Adolf (also spelt Adolph or Adolphe, Adolfo and when Latinised Adolphus) is a given name used in German-speaking countries, Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Flanders, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Latin America and to a lesser extent in various Central European and East European countries with non-Germanic languages, such as Lithuanian Adolfas and Latvian Ādolfs. Adolphus can also appear as a surname, as in John Adolphus, the English historian. The female forms Adolphine and Adolpha are far more rare than the male names. The name is a compound derived from the Old High German ''Athalwolf'' (or ''Hadulf''), a composition of ''athal'', or ''adal'', meaning "noble" (or '' had(u)''-, meaning "battle, combat"), and ''wolf''. The name is cognate to the Anglo-Saxon name '' Æthelwulf'' (also Eadulf or Eadwulf). The name can also be derived from the ancient Germanic elements "Wald" meaning "power", "brightness" and wolf (Waldwulf). Due to negative associations with Adolf Hit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Beierle
Alfred Beierle (4 June 1885 – 16 March 1950) was a German stage and film actor.Alpi p.346 Selected filmography * '' The League of Three'' (1929) * ''The Flute Concert of Sanssouci'' (1930) * '' The Tiger Murder Case'' (1930) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1930) * '' The Duke of Reichstadt'' (1931) * '' My Leopold'' (1931) * '' Bobby Gets Going'' (1931) * '' In the Employ of the Secret Service'' (1931) * '' Gloria'' (1931) * '' Crime Reporter Holm'' (1932) * ''The Daredevil'' (1931) * '' Express 13'' (1931) * '' The Captain from Köpenick'' (1931) * '' The Stranger'' (1931) * ''Gypsies of the Night'' (1932) * '' The Heath Is Green'' (1932) * '' Man Without a Name'' (1932) * '' The Victor'' (1932) * '' The White Demon'' (1932) * ''The Big Bluff'' (1933) * '' The Burning Secret'' (1933) * '' Life Begins Tomorrow'' (1933) * '' The Flower Girl from the Grand Hotel'' (1934) * '' A Woman with Power of Attorney'' (1934) * ''The Violet of Potsdamer Platz'' (1936) * ''Under Bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Immler
Ferdinand "Fred" Immler (10 December 1880 –20 February 1965) was a German stage and film actor. Life Born in Coburg, as a young adult he worked from 1900 to 1902 at Deutsche Bank in Berlin and from 1902 to 1904 at Dresdner Bank. 1905 he returned to Coburg as an actor-in-training and from 1906 to 1908 he performed at the local court theatre. From 1908 to 1909, he worked at the Residence Theater Hanover, 1909 at the Summer Theatre in Posen and from 1909 to 1910 at the court theatre in Gera. 1910, he played at the Liebich Theatre and at the Victoria Theatre in Breslau. In 1912, Immler made the transition to the medium of motion pictures and appeared opposite the Danish actress Asta Nielsen in several roles between 1912 and 1915, all directed by Nielsen's husband Urban Gad. At the outbreak of World War I, he enlisted in the German military. He returned to film in 1919, and starred in the Ernst Lubitsch-directed, Hanns Kräly-penned costume-drama ''Madame Du Barry'' opposite Pola ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sigurd Lohde
Sigurd Lohde (1899–1977) was a German film and television actor.Youngkin p.457 Selected filmography * ''The Daredevil'' (1931) * ''The Leap into the Void'' (1932) * '' Mrs. Lehmann's Daughters'' (1932) * '' Tannenberg'' (1932) * '' The Big Bluff'' (1933) * '' Peter'' (1934) * '' Little Mother'' (1935) * '' Catherine the Last'' (1936) * '' The Bath in the Barn'' (1956) * '' Beloved Corinna'' (1956) * ''And That on Monday Morning ''And That on Monday Morning'' (german: Und das am Montagmorgen) is a 1959 West German comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini and starring O.W. Fischer, Ulla Jacobsson and Vera Tschechowa . Based on the 1955 British play '' Mr. Kettle and Mrs ...'' (1959) References Bibliography * Youngkin, Stephen. ''The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre''. University Press of Kentucky, 2005. External links * 1899 births 1977 deaths German male film actors Actors from Weimar {{Germany-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Lingen
Theo Lingen (; 10 June 1903 – 10 November 1978), born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films between 1936 and 1960. Life and career Lingen was born the son of a lawyer in the city of Hanover, and grew up there. He attended the Royal Goethe Gymnasium – the predecessor of the Goethe School – in Hanover, but left before taking the Abitur (final exams). His theatrical talent was discovered during rehearsals for a school performance at the ''Schauburg'' boulevard theatre. Beginning his professional stage career, the young actor adopted as a stage name his middle name together with that of the birthplace of his father, Lingen in the North German Emsland region. As "Theo Lingen" he performed at theatres at Hanover, Halberstadt, Münster and Frankfurt; in plays like ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' he very quickly earned a reputation as a superb character comedian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Steinbeck
Walter Steinbeck (26 September 1878 – 27 August 1942) was a German film actor. Steinbeck was born in Niederlößnitz (now Radebeul), Saxony, Germany. He died at age 63 in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * ''The Romance of a Poor Sinner'' (1922) * '' The Chain Clinks'' (1923) * '' Night of Mystery'' (1927) * '' Panic'' (1928) * '' Sixteen Daughters and No Father'' (1928) * '' The Great Longing'' (1930) - film director * ''Her Majesty the Barmaid'' (1931) * '' Marriage with Limited Liability'' (1931) * '' Weekend in Paradise'' (1931) * '' 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman'' (1931) * '' Louise, Queen of Prussia'' (1931) * '' In the Employ of the Secret Service'' (1931) * ''Thea Roland'' (1932) * '' Impossible Love'' (1932) * ''The Blue of Heaven'' (1932) * '' A Tremendously Rich Man'' (1932) * '' Johnny Steals Europe'' (1932) * '' The Mad Bomberg'' (1932) * '' All is at Stake'' (1932) * ''When Love Sets the Fashion ''When Love Sets the Fashion'' (German: ''Wenn die Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Fischer-Köppe
Hugo Fischer-Köppe (13 February 1890, in Bielefeld – 31 December 1937, in Berlin) was an early German film actor. Fischer-Köppe entered film in 1917 and appeared in some 80 different films between 1913 and his premature death in 1937 in films such as '' Achtung! Auto-Diebe!'' in 1930 in which he worked with actor and director Harry Piel and Charly Berger. Selected filmography * '' The Men of Frau Clarissa'' (1922) * '' The Queen of Whitechapel'' (1922) * ''The Shadows of That Night'' (1922) * '' The Big Shot'' (1922) * '' The Morals of the Alley'' (1925) * ''Three Waiting Maids'' (1925) * '' Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days'' (1925) * '' War in Peace'' (1925) * ''Ash Wednesday'' (1925) * ''The Trumpets are Blowing'' (1926) * '' The Captain from Koepenick'' (1926) * '' The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin'' (1926) * '' Countess Ironing-Maid'' (1926) * '' The Armoured Vault'' (1926) * ''The Man Without Sleep'' (1926) * '' Maytime'' (1926) * ''I Stand in the Dark Midnight'' (1927 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Sandrock
Adele Sandrock (; born Adele Feldern-Förster; 19 August 1863 – 30 August 1937) was a German-Dutch actress. After a successful theatrical career, she became one of the first German movie stars. Early life Sandrock was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the daughter of the German merchant Eduard Sandrock (1834–1897) and his Dutch wife, Johanna Simonetta ten Hagen (1833–1917). With sister Wilhelmine (1861-1948) and brother Christian (1862–1924), she grew up in Rotterdam, and, after her parents' divorce on 15 November 1869, in Berlin. Career In 1878 at the age of fifteen, Sandrock made her debut as Selma in ''Mutter und Sohn'' by Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer. In Berlin she met the famous Meiningen Ensemble and achieved success at the theatre of Meiningen, where her first role was Luise in Friedrich Schiller's ''Intrigue and Love'', followed by further engagements in Moscow, Wiener Neustadt, and Budapest. In 1889, she had her breakthrough at the Theater an der Wien in Vienn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Hörbiger
Paul Hörbiger (29 April 1894 – 5 March 1981) was an Austrian theatre and film actor. Life and work Paul Hörbiger was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest, then part of Austria-Hungary, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger, founder of the ''Welteislehre'' cosmological concept, and elder brother of actor Attila Hörbiger. In 1902, the family returned to Vienna, while Paul attended the '' gymnasium'' (high school) at St. Paul's Abbey in Carinthia. Having obtained his ''Matura'' degree, he served in a mountain artillery regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Army in World War I, discharged in 1918 with the rank of an ''Oberleutnant''. After the war, Hörbiger took drama lessons and began his acting career in 1919 at the city theatre of Reichenberg (Liberec). From 1920, he performed at the New German Theatre in Prague. His fame grew when in 1926 he was employed by director Max Reinhardt at the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, reaching a high point with his appointmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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