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
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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
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, 1909 at the Summer Theatre in
Posen and from 1909 to 1910 at the court theatre in
Gera
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. 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
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, 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 Negri and
Emil Jannings. One of his best recalled films of the early 1920s was in the 1921 Ernst Lubitsch-directed drama ''Vendetta'', once more opposite Pola Negri. In 1929 he appeared with
Marlene Dietrich and
Fritz Kortner in the
Maurice Tourneur-directed film adaption of the
Franzos Keremen novel ''Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen'' (''The Ship of Lost Men'').
Fred Immler retired from acting in 1935 and worked primarily as a dispatcher for a production company until the end of
World War II
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. His last film appearance was in the 1935 film ''Der blaue Diamant'' (English: ''The Blue Diamond''). After the war he retired to his hometown of Coburg. He died in 1965 at age 84.
[ Weniger, Kay. ''Das große Personenlexikon des Films''. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf; Auflage: Nachdruck. April 2003 ]
Selected filmography
* ''
The False Asta Nielsen'' (1915)
* ''
Jan Vermeulen, the Miller of Flanders'' (1917)
* ''
Vendetta'' (1919)
* ''
From the Files of a Respectable Woman'' (1920)
* ''
Mascotte'' (1920)
* ''
The Devil Worshippers'' (1921)
* ''
Raid'' (1921)
* ''
The Beautiful Girl'' (1923)
* ''
The Fake Emir'' (1924)
* ''
The Third Watch'' (1924)
* ''
Dangerous Clues'' (1924)
* ''
Mister Radio'' (1924)
* ''
A Dangerous Game'' (1924)
* ''
The Eleven Schill Officers'' (1926)
* ''
The Ship of Lost Souls'' (1929)
* ''
Lux, King of Criminals'' (1929)
* ''
Waterloo'' (1929)
* ''
Distinguishing Features'' (1929)
* ''
The Big Bluff'' (1933)
* ''
Dream of the Rhine'' (1933)
* ''
There Is Only One Love'' (1933)
Further reading
*Weniger, Kay. ''Das große Personenlexikon des Films''. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf; Auflage: Nachdruck. April 2003
References
External links
*
1880 births
1965 deaths
Dispatchers
German male film actors
German male silent film actors
German male stage actors
People from Coburg
20th-century German male actors
Artists from Coburg
Male actors from Bavaria
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