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The Copper (1930 Film)
''The Copper'', or ''The Grasper'' (german: Der Greifer), is a 1930 British-German crime film directed by Richard Eichberg and starring Hans Albers, Charlotte Susa, and Margot Landa. It is the German-language version of the British film '' Night Birds'', which was also directed by Eichberg but with an English-speaking cast. Both films were made by British International Pictures at their Elstree Studios at a time when such multiple-language versions were common. It was a success in Germany, launching Albers as a major star. In 1958, the film was remade with Albers reprising his role. Plot Scotland Yard's Sergeant Harry Cross investigates a brazen robbery at a London mansion in which a large dinner party was robbed of all their jewelry and valuables. A servant was stabbed with a throwing knife. Sergeant Cross and Chief Inspector Warrington immediately suspect Messer-Jack and his gang to be behind the robbery-murder. For some time now, they have been terrifying the residents o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Eichberg
Richard Eichberg (27 October 1888 – 8 May 1952) was a German film director and producer. He directed 87 films between 1915 and 1949. He also produced 77 films between 1915 and 1950. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in Munich, Germany. Selected filmography * '' Jettatore'' (1919) * '' Sins of the Parents'' (1919) * '' Child on the Open Road'' (1919) * '' Der Fluch der Menschheit'' (1920) * '' Hypnose'' (1920) * '' Der Tanz auf dem Vulkan'' (1920) * '' Im Rausche der Milliarden'' (1920) * '' Evelyn's Love Adventures'' (1921) * '' The Living Propeller'' (1921) * '' Ihre Hoheit die Tänzerin'' (1922) * ''Monna Vanna'' (1922) * '' The Moneylender's Daughter'' (1922) * '' The Romance of a Poor Sinner'' (1922) * ''Girl of the Berlin Streets'' (1922) * '' Fräulein Raffke'' (1923) * '' The Most Beautiful Woman in the World'' (1924) * ''The Motorist Bride'' (1925) * '' Women of Luxury'' (1925) * ''The Girl on the Road'' (1925) * '' Love and Trumpets'' (1925) * '' The Woman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elstree Studios (Shenley Road)
Elstree Studios on Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire is a British film and television production centre operated by Elstree Film Studios Limited. One of several facilities historically referred to as Elstree Studios, the Shenley Road studios originally opened in 1925. The studio complex has passed through many owners during its lifetime, and is now owned by Hertsmere Borough Council. Known as the studios used for filming Alfred Hitchcock's ''Blackmail'' (1929)—the first British talkie, ''Star Wars'' (1977), ''The'' ''Shining'' (1980) and ''Indiana Jones'' (its largest stage is known as the George Lucas Soundstage), the studios are used both for film and television productions. With the BBC Elstree Centre nearby, a number of the stages are leased to BBC Studioworks, and are used for recording television productions such as ''Strictly Come Dancing''. History British International and Associated British British National Pictures Ltd purchased of land on the south ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wera Engels
Wera Engels (12 May 1905 – 16 November 1988) was a German actress. After successful leading roles in productions of the well-established German UFA-studios in Babelsberg as well as in France, she was invited to Hollywood. Producers saw her as a cheap alternative to Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. She was contracted with RKO. She and actress Mary Pickford reportedly became good friends. In 1935 she returned to Germany, but left soon thereafter. Back in Hollywood, she dated Gary Cooper for a while but married Russian actor and writer Ivan Lebedeff. After Lebedeff's death in 1953 of angina pectoris, she moved back to Europe, where she stayed with several friends in London and Stockholm before she returned to Germany. She lived the rest of her life with Erna Hoffmann (widow of Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler's friend and personal photographer) in the Munich area. Filmography *'' White Slave Traffic'' (1926) *'' Lützow's Wild Hunt'' (1927) * ''Did You Fall in Love Along the Beauti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hertha Von Walther
Hertha von Walther (born Hertha Stern und Walter von Monbary, 12 June 1903 – 12 April 1987) was a German film actress. She appeared in 80 films between 1921 and 1983. Biography Hertha von Walther was born Hertha Stern und Walther von Monbary on 12 June 1903 to Clara Stern und Walther von Monbary (née Gabain) and the Prussian general Arthur Stern und Walther von Monbary (1853–1917). Her father had been born Arthur Stern-Gwiazdowski in Poland to a mother of French descent and was the adopted son of Rudolf Walther von Monbary. At 17 years old, von Walther left the boarding school she had been attending in Wolfenbüttel and went to the Leipzig acting school with a scholarship. Her first stage experience came at the Leipzig Opera, where she played as an extra. She later moved to Berlin and found work at the Theater am Zoo and the Renaissance Theater. von Walther made her film debut in ''Destinée'' (1920), followed by Julot the Apache (1921), and Duke Ferrante's En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senta Söneland
Senta Söneland (9 September 1882 – 20 July 1934) was a German stage and film actress.Ball p.68 Selected filmography * '' The Canned Bride'' (1915) * '' Benjamin the Timid'' (1916) * '' The King of Paris'' (1930) * '' The Copper'' (1930) * '' Susanne Cleans Up'' (1930) * ''Road to Rio'' (1931) * ''Poor as a Church Mouse'' (1931) * '' Die Bräutigamswitwe'' (1931) * '' The Adventurer of Tunis'' (1931) * ''My Heart Longs for Love'' (1931) * '' Peace of Mind'' (1931) * ''The Daredevil'' (1931) * '' The Unknown Guest'' (1931) * '' Scandal on Park Street'' (1932) * ''The Secret of Johann Orth'' (1932) * ''The Magic Top Hat'' (1932) * ''Two Good Comrades ''Two Good Comrades'' (german: Zwei gute Kameraden) is a 1933 German war comedy film directed by Max Obal and starring Paul Hörbiger, Fritz Kampers, and Jessie Vihrog. The film's art direction was by Robert A. Dietrich and Bruno Lutz Bruno ...'' (1933) * '' Tell Me Who You Are'' (1933) * '' North Pole, Ahoy'' (1934) Referen ... [...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] |
John Mylong
John Mylong (September 27, 1892 – September 8, 1975), also known as Jack Mylong-Münz, born Adolf Heinrich Münz, was an Austrian actor who later settled in the United States. Selected filmography * ''Der heilige Hass, 1. Teil'' (1921) - Rabob * ''Der heilige Hass, 2. Teil - Die Flucht vor dem Tode'' (1921) - Rabob * ''Die Schlucht des Grauens'' (1921) * ''Die Satansfratze'' (1921) * ''Die Nacht der tausend Seelen'' (1921) * ''Das Wirtshaus im Spessart'' (1923) * ''Die Bestie'' (1923) * ''The Tragedy of a Night of Passion'' (1924) * '' The Malay Junk'' (1924) * '' The Terror of the Sea'' (1924) * ''The Four Last Seconds of Quidam Uhl'' (1924) - Heinrich, Magdalensa Bruder * ''Die Tragödie der Entehrten'' (1924) * '' The Pearls of Doctor Talmadge'' (1925) * '' A Song from Days of Youth'' (1925) - Jürg Asmussen * '' Written in the Stars'' (1925) - Horst Raabe * ''Mrs Worrington's Perfume'' (1925) - Dr. Harry Edwards * ''The Adventurous Wedding'' (1925) - Fergus * '' Venetian Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erich Schönfelder
Erich Schönfelder (1885–1933) was a German screenwriter, actor, and film director of the silent and early sound eras. Early in his career he worked frequently with Ernst Lubitsch. Selected filmography Writer * ''Shoe Palace Pinkus'' (1916) * '' When Four Do the Same'' (1917) * ''My Wife, the Movie Star'' (1919) * '' Meyer from Berlin'' (1919) * '' Love at the Wheel'' (1921) Actor * '' The Golem and the Dancing Girl'' (1917) *'' The Toboggan Cavalier'' (1918) * ''Ruth's Two Husbands'' (1919) * '' Hunted Men'' (1924) * '' Struggle for the Soil'' (1925) * '' Fight of the Tertia'' (1929) * '' The Copper'' (1930) Director * '' The Bull of Olivera'' (1921) * ''Miss Rockefeller Is Filming'' (1922) * ''In the Name of the King'' (1924) * ''Women of Luxury'' (1925) * ''The Woman with That Certain Something'' (1925) * ''Princess Trulala'' (1926) * '' Grandstand for General Staff'' (1926) * ''Marie's Soldier'' (1927) * '' How Do I Marry the Boss?'' (1927) * '' The Woman from Till 12'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Blaß
Hermann Blaß (transliterated as Hermann Blass; 1888–1941) was an Austrian film actor and singer.Eisner p.351 The Jewish Blaß was forced to leave Germany following the rise of the Nazi Party to power in 1933. He then left Austria following its annexation by Germany in 1938 and went to the United States, where he died in 1941. Selected filmography * ''War in Peace'' (1925) * '' Dolly Gets Ahead'' (1930) * '' The Singing City'' (1930) * '' The Copper'' (1930) * ''A Student's Song of Heidelberg'' (1930) * '' The Road to Dishonour'' (1930) * ''The Stolen Face'' (1930) * '' Lieutenant, Were You Once a Hussar?'' (1930) * '' Once I Loved a Girl in Vienna'' (1931) * ''The Man in Search of His Murderer'' (1931) * '' The Opera Ball'' (1931) * ''The Little Escapade'' (1931) * '' Circus Life'' (1931) * '' Johnny Steals Europe'' (1932) * '' Once There Was a Waltz'' (1932) * ''Two Hearts Beat as One'' (1932) * ''When Love Sets the Fashion ''When Love Sets the Fashion'' (German: ''Wenn d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Hardt
Harry Hardt (born Hermann Karl Viktor Klimbacher Edler von Reichswahr, Pula, 4 August 1899 – Vienna, 14 November 1980) was an Austrian actor. The son of a military officer, he initially planned a military career for himself, studying at a military academy and serving during World War I. He later turned to acting, having a long career both in films and on television. Selected filmography * ''The Passion of Inge Krafft'' (1921) * '' The Eternal Struggle'' (1921) * ''The Women of Gnadenstein'' (1921) * '' The False Dimitri'' (1922) - Fürst Leschinsky * '' Frauenmoral'' (1923) * ''Fräulein Raffke'' (1923) * '' The Comedian's Child'' (1923) * '' The Great Unknown'' (1924) * '' The Hobgoblin'' (1924) * '' Around a Million'' (1924) * '' Nanon'' (1924) - Bruder der Dame (Brother of the Dame) * '' The Wife of Forty Years'' (1925) * '' Cock of the Roost'' (1925) * ''Upstairs and Downstairs'' (1925) * '' The Dealer from Amsterdam'' (1925) * '' Ship in Distress'' (1925) * '' In the Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugen Burg
Eugen Burg (6 January 1871 – 17 April 1944) was a German actor. His daughter was Hansi Burg. Burg was a close friend of the actor Hans Albers. Burg was born Eugen Hirschburg into a Jewish family, but later converted to Protestantism. He was banished from the film industry when the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. He later died in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Selected filmography * '' Robert and Bertram'' (1915) * '' In the Castle by the Lake'' (1918) * '' The Secret of Wera Baranska'' (1919) * ''The Secret of the Scaffold'' (1919) * '' A Night in Paradise'' (1919) * '' Colonel Chabert'' (1920) * '' The Black Panther'' (1921) * '' Violet'' (1921) * ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922) * '' Circus People'' (1922) * ''Marie Antoinette, the Love of a King'' (1922) * '' The Island of Tears'' (1923) * '' Old Heidelberg'' (1923) * '' The Wonderful Adventure'' (1924) * '' Gobseck'' (1924) * ''The Third Squadron'' (1926) * '' Wrath of the Seas'' (1926) * '' Fadette'' (1926) * '' Eyes Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Ludwig Diehl
Karl Ludwig Diehl (14 August 1896 – 8 March 1958) was a German film actor. He appeared in 66 films between 1924 and 1957. His father was Karl Diehl, the German professor of Anarchism. Filmography * ''Die Tragödie der Entehrten'' (1924) * '' The Blame'' (1924) * '' Waltz of Love'' (1930) - Marshal * ''Masks'' (1930) - Stuart Webbs * ''Zärtlichkeit'' (1930) - Kerten * '' The Love Waltz'' (1930) - Lord Chamberlain * '' Love's Carnival'' (1930) - Oberleutnant Ferndinand von Grobitzsch * '' The Copper'' (1930) - Snorry (German Version) * ''Ash Wednesday'' (1931) - Hauptmann von Rochow * '' Queen of the Night'' (1931) - Adjudant * ''Circus Life'' (1931) - Luftakrobat * ''Täter gesucht'' (1931) - Dr. Gregor, Redakteur * '' The Squeaker'' (1931) - Captain Leslie * ''In the Employ of the Secret Service'' (1931) - Wasiljeff, kaptajn * ''Rasputin, Demon with Women'' (1932) - Fürst Jussupoff * '' Two in a Car'' (1932) - Lord Kingsdale * ''A Shot at Dawn'' (1932) - Petersen * ''Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
