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Der Dschungel ruft (1936)
Character: Bobby Roeder
Rich American Dina Morris and her New York friends sail through the Indian Ocean on a yacht. When the ship suffers a machine damage near the coast, it is decided to go ashore.
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Zigano (1925)
Character: Benito
Filmarchiv Austria holds a non-access master print and a nitrate duplicate negative of the film.
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Das Schiff ohne Hafen (1932)
Character: Seepolizist Klaus Hansen
Klaus Hansen is a Sea Police, patrolling on the German North Sea coast. Having just married the singer Kitty Korff, the couple goes on honeymoon. But there is a ghost ship bothering him.
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Auf gefährlichen Spuren (1924)
Character: N/A
DANGEROUS PATHS marked the beginning of Henrik Galeen’s collaboration with Piel, which by 1931 had comprised a total of five films. The present film offers the opportunity to see screenwriter Galeen in front of the camera as the super-rich American Francis. The journeyman carpenter Harry is bewitched by Francis’s daughter Dorothy, whom he has to rescue from the clutches of dangerous hoodlums. The gang is also trying to steal the crown of a prince. Thus Harry finds himself in a sophisticated adventure that features spectacular nature shots (filmed in the Alps).
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Artisten (1935)
Character: Harry Peters
A Harry Piel adventure in the circus milieu: the famous artist Harry trains with the young Hella Stoll, whom he has been raising after the accidental death of her parents. In the interim, now grown up Hella has secretly fallen in love with Harry, but, for the moment, he only has eyes for the seductive Vera Leander. Only a serious accident, which has almost cost Harry his life, brings him back to his senses. Unhappy Hella, however, has already left the circus. Searching for her, Harry has to battle a wild elephant and bring a criminal to justice. But finally, he finds Hella and can admit to his love for her.
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Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen (1938)
Character: Robert Hansen / Gen. Bobby / Artist
The artist Hansen and his wife have separated due to professional stubbornness, even though they love each other. The animals behave more sensibly: Hansen’s trained monkeys bring the couple back together. People and animals work together to create a sensation.
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Menschen im Feuer (1931)
Character: Harry Peltzer
Harry Peltzer, who is passionate about his job as a firefighter, and his superior, fire chief Paul Körner, are the best of friends. This changes the day they both meet Nelly, a young, blonde cashier at a vending machine buffet, on whom both men immediately set their eyes. As Harry has a much better chance with Nelly, Paul's friendship with him soon turns into bitter antagonism, if not outright enmity.
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Gesprengte Gitter (1953)
Character: Peter Volker
German big game hunter brings elephants back from Africa safely through enemy lines, but they go on a stampede in Berlin. Filming began during WWII in Germany, but production was stopped because story showed Third Reich police and military having problems coping with an elephant stampede; after the War, it got completed by its originator, and exported to the US with English dubbed, while removing all references to its 1940s German origins!
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Sein größter Bluff (1927)
Character: Henry Devall / Harry Devall
His Greatest Bluff is a German silent comedy film. Today, the film is best known for the early role it offered to Marlene Dietrich who was only cast after great effort by her agents.
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90 Minuten Aufenthalt (1936)
Character: Harry Winkler
On their way to a boxing competition in Buenos Aires, the criminal investigator Harry Winkler from Berlin and Conny Steven of Scotland Yard, meet in Lisbon. Both have a 90 minute break before their ship leaves for South America. They end up meeting Ilse Siebeck, a young woman and through her become part of a criminal mystery. Ilse's uncle is murdered and Harry Winkler is quickly able to determine that the man who murdered her uncle is the exact same man who murdered his father a few years earlier.
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Rivalen (1923)
Character: N/A
Using his marauding robot and other futuristic weapons, power-crazed scientist Professor Ravello carries out various plots to win the hand of Evelyn away from her true love Harry Peel.
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Der letzte Kampf (1923)
Character: N/A
The industrialist's daughter has been kidnapped by the mad inventor Ravello, but Harry Peel stays hot on their trail with the help of his dog Greif. Behind a waterfall, he discovers the hidden gate to Ravello's castle, where the fiercest of battles now break out between the two and Harry finds himself confronted with a staircase that has been electrified and, once again, with the deadly robot.
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Er oder ich (1930)
Character: Egon Prinz von Valona / Carlo Moreno
Prince Valona has a bit of trouble with his girlfriend Eveline (Olivia Fried), so he's quite open for the attraction of a young lady he meets by chance (Valerie Boothby). He doesn't know, however, that this lady is a detective who follows the con-man Carlo Moreno, and as the prince and the criminal look alike, she mistakes the prince for the criminal. The real Moreno isn't far away, though, and he first deprives the prince of his train ticket and then also takes on his identity in order to steal a pearl necklace from Eveline.
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Seine stärkste Waffe (1928)
Character: Harry Petersen
"His Best Force" - Harry Petersen has just made a big invention: the lamp without electrical supply. In American businessman Al Kinley, Harry hopes to find a financier for his idea, but Kinley does not show any interest.
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Männer ohne Beruf (1929)
Character: Police deputy
A police deputy in Paris have a lead on an international gang into trafficking. The police dresses as a steward to tail the head of the gang to Marseille. On the ship he meets with Madeleine. A girl controlled by the traffickers.
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Sein bester Freund (1937)
Character: Harry Peters, Kriminal-Assistent
Remake of a 1929 German film by the same title about a man and a police dog.
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Die Welt ohne Maske (1934)
Character: Harry Palmer
An inventor works on coming up with a radio-television device, but can't get it to work properly. A slick con artist sees a chance to fleece gullible people with this device and encourages the inventor to keep working at it. One day in the lab, a freak accident results in the machine being able to look through any object and project that object on a TV screen. Unfortunately, some crooks hear about it and determine to get their hands on it. Complications ensue.
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Ein Unsichtbarer geht durch die Stadt (1933)
Character: Harry
A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An inventive comedy.
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Was ist los im Zirkus Beely? (1927)
Character: Harry Peel
Harry Piel plays Harry Peel who receives an urgent telephone call from a friend who has returned from South America recently. The call is being made from the circus "Beely" and our hero arrives there too late to prevent the murder of his friend. Now Harry must find his friend's killer and go on a strange mission involving a hidden document.
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Der Tiger Akbar (1951)
Character: Jonny Wilken
Jonny Wilken is an ageing lion trainer in a circus. He is in love with his younger colleague Jutta Sarris. On her wedding day, Jutta's favorite Bengal tiger attacks her out of jealousy and kills her. Jonny, full of pain and out of revenge, enters the cage to kill the animal with his bare hands. However, the tiger bows to him without any resistance.
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