Hubert Moest (December 3, 1877 to December 5, 1953) was a German film director, writer, producer, and actor.
Early life and career
Moest was the son of the sculptor Richard Moest. He attended high school in Cologne, an art school and worked as a painter. In 1895, he began performing as an actor and opera singer on stages in
Bad Godesberg
Bad Godesberg ( ksh, Bad Jodesbersch) is a borough (''Stadtbezirk'') of Bonn, southern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. From 1949 to 1999, while Bonn was the capital of West Germany, most foreign embassies were in Bad Godesberg. Some buildings are ...
,
Hagen
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and other cities of West Germany. He came to Berlin in 1912 and was part of the theater at
Nollendorfplatz. In the same year he was also active as a theater director. In 1913 he married actress
Hedda Vernon
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Early life
Hedwig Klara Kemp wa ...
.
He began acting in 1914 and was part of many
comedy film
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s. His first film as a director was ''
Selbstgerichtet oder Die Gelbe Fratze'' in which his wife Hedda Vernon was the lead actress.
He served in the army during
World War I
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. He founded a film production company Moest-Film GmbH. In January 1922
Waldemar von Briger acquired most of the shares of the company and hence Moest resigned from the company and created Moest-Produktions GmbH. In April, 1922 after the failure of his film project he founded Aladin-Film Co. AG.
In 1923, he married
Jewish
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Elly Charlotte Liepmann and after
Adolf Hitler
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imposed restrictions on Jews, Moest led a very difficult life and worked as an assistant in the company Elekta-Film in
Prague
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.
Filmography
This is the selected filmography of Hubert Moest
Director
* ''
Selbstgerichtet oder Die Gelbe Fratze'' (1914)
* ''Maria Niemand und ihre zwölf Väter'' (1915)
* ''
The Knitting Needles
''The Knitting Needles'' (German: ''Die Stricknadeln'') is a 1916 German silent comedy film directed by Hubert Moest and Otto Rippert and starring Erich Kaiser-Titz, Käthe Haack and Olga Engl.Bock & Bergfelder p.433
Cast
* Erich Kaiser-T ...
'' (1916)
* ''
His Coquettish Wife
''His Coquettish Wife'' (German: ''Seine kokette Frau'') is a 1916 German silent film directed by Hubert Moest and starring Hedda Vernon, Erich Kaiser-Titz and Reinhold Schünzel.Bock & Bergfelder p.433
Cast
* Hedda Vernon
* Erich Kaiser-Titz
* R ...
'' (1916)
* ''
The Prisoner of Dahomey
''The Prisoner of Dahomey'' (German: ''Der Gefangene von Dahomey'') is a 1918 German silent drama film directed by Hubert Moest
Hubert Moest (December 3, 1877 to December 5, 1953) was a German film director, writer, producer, and actor.
Early ...
'' (1918)
* ''
The Bracelet'' (1918)
* ''
During My Apprenticeship'' (1919)
* ''
Blonde Poison'' (1919)
[
* '' The Women House of Brescia'' (1920)]Lady Godiva
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'' (1921)[
* '' Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand'' (1925)
]
Actor
* '' Menschen und Masken'' (1913)
* ''Die Millionenmine'' (1914)
* ''Die Narbe am Knie'' (1918)
* ''Der Hampelmann'' (1919)
* ''Lepain, der König der Verbrecher - 4. Teil'' (1920)
* ''Lepain, der König der Verbrecher - 3. Teil'' (1920)
Producer
* ''Ut mine stromtid'' (1919)
* ''Die Jungfrau von Kynast'' (1921)
* ''Die reine Sünderin'' (1921)
References
External links
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1877 births
1953 deaths
German male film actors
German male silent film actors
20th-century German male actors
Film people from Cologne