Fritz Wendhausen (7 August 1890 – 5 January 1962) was a German

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and

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. He is also credited as Frederick Wendhausen and F.R. Wendhausen. In 1938 he immigrated to Britain from

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Selected filmography

Screenwriter * '' The Grand Duke's Finances'' (1924) * '' The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) * '' Dreyfus'' (1930) * ''

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'' (1931) * '' The Marriage Swindler'' (1938) Actor * '' Old Heidelberg'' (1923) * '' Secret Mission'' (1942) * '' Tomorrow We Live'' (1943) * '' Beware of Pity'' (1946) * '' Odette'' (1950) * '' Desperate Moment'' (1953) * '' Orders to Kill'' (1958) Director * '' The Eternal Curse'' (1921) * '' Madame de La Pommeraye's Intrigues'' (1922) * '' The Stone Rider'' (1923) * '' The Director General'' (1925) * ''

His Toughest Case ''His Toughest Case'' (German: ''Sein großer Fall'') is a 1926 German silent crime film directed and co-written by Fritz Wendhausen and starring Alexander Murski, Christa Tordy and Olga Chekhova. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Ber ...

'' (1926) * '' The Trial of Donald Westhof'' (1927) * '' Out of the Mist'' (1927) * '' A Woman with Style'' (1928) * '' The Runaway Princess'' (1929) * '' Queen of the Night'' (1931) * ''

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'' (1932) * '' Little Man, What Now?'' (1933) * '' The Black Whale'' (1934) * ''

Peer Gynt ''Peer Gynt'' (, ) is a five-Act (drama), act play in verse written in 1867 by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. It is one of Ibsen's best known and most widely performed plays. ''Peer Gynt'' chronicles the journey of its title character fr ...

'' (1934) * '' Artist Love'' (1935) * '' Family Parade'' (1936)

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* 1890 births 1962 deaths People from Hochtaunuskreis German male film actors Film people from Hesse 20th-century German male actors German male writers Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany People who emigrated to escape Nazism Male actors from Hesse {{Germany-film-director-stub