Kurt Seifert (4 July 1903 – 3 December 1950) was a German actor, singer, comedian, and in his later years, theatre director. Seifert was known as an
operetta
Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs and including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, and length of the work. Apart from its shorter length, the oper ...
singer.
[O'Brien p.32] From 1934 onwards he appeared in a significant number of feature films, sometimes in the lead as in ''
Robert and Bertram'' (1939) but also in
supporting roles. By the time he died in 1950, he had performed in forty-five films.
Selected filmography
* ''
The Island'' (1934) - Der Korpulente
* ''
Love and the First Railway'' (1934)
* ''
An Evening Visit'' (1934) - Der Varieté-Direktor
* ''Liebeslied'' (1935)
* ''
Stjenka Rasin'' (1936)
* ''
The Castle in Flanders'' (1936) - Hotelportier
* ''
Glückskinder
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'' (1936) - Restaurateur
* ' (1936) - Don Ramiro
* ''Und du mein Schatz fährst mit'' (1937) - Juwelier
* ''
Patriots
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'' (1937) - Alphonse
* ''
Tango Notturno'' (1937) - Webster
* ''
The Roundabouts of Handsome Karl'' (1938) - Pferde-Wenzel
* ''Das Mädchen mit dem guten Ruf'' (1938) - Bob - ein Amerikaner
* ''
The Great and the Little Love'' (1938) - Heinrod
* ''
Nights in Andalusia'' (1938) - Juan
* ''Das Leben kann so schön sein'' (1938) - Generaldirektor der Versicherung
* ''
Sergeant Berry'' (1938) - Alcalde (uncredited)
* ''
Robert and Bertram'' (1939) - Bertram
* ''Der dunkle Punkt'' (1940)
* ' (1941) - Paul Lindemann
* ''
The Gasman'' (1941) - Finanzbeamter (uncredited)
* ''
Krach im Vorderhaus'' (1941) - Hermann Schultze
* ''
The Thing About Styx'' (1942) - Eugene
* ''So ein Früchtchen'' (1942)
* ''
We Make Music'' (1942) - Hugo Bratzberger
* ''Ein Walzer mit dir'' (1943) - Müller, Direktor des Weltverlags
* ''Das seltsame Fräulein Sylvia'' (1945)
* ''
The Man in the Saddle'' (1945) - Paul, Futtermeister
* ''
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions'' (1946) - Petterson
* ''Vor uns liegt das Leben'' (1946) - Pfisterer, Gastwirt
* ''
Somewhere in Berlin
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'' (1946)
* ''
Anonymous Letters'' (1949) - Gregor Mauermann - Bauunternehmer
* ''
Nights on the Nile'' (1949) - Paul Kleinke - Möbelfabrikant
* ''Um eine Nasenlänge'' (1949) - Teddy, Barbesitzer
* ''
Wedding with Erika'' (1950) - Baron Kroko
* ''
One Night Apart
''One Night Apart'' () is a 1950 West German period comedy film directed by Hans Deppe and starring Kurt Seifert, Olga Chekhova and Sonja Ziemann.Höfig p. 95 It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by th ...
'' (1950) - Heinrich Pogge
* ''Maharadscha wider Willen'' (1950) - Karl Brummer - Fabrikant
* ''Verlobte Leute'' (1950)
* ''
When Men Cheat'' (1950) - Arthur Bamberg, Seidenfabrikant, ihr Mann
* ''
The Black Forest Girl'' (1950)
* ''
Wedding in the Hay'' (1951) - Egon Hasse, Fotograf
* ''Eva im Frack'' (1951) - Hübner, Posaunist (final film role)
References
Bibliography
* O'Brien, Mary-Elizabeth. ''Nazi Cinema as Enchantment: The Politics of Entertainment in the Third Reich''. Camden House, 2006.
External links
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1903 births
1950 deaths
German male film actors
20th-century German male singers
Male actors from Essen
20th-century German male actors
German male comedians
Comedians from North Rhine-Westphalia
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