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Rote Orchideen (1938)
Character: Antonio, Marias Bruder
In a made-up country somewhere in northern Europe: In the armaments factory F.N.G., an important drawing is copied and passed on to the enemy. Suspicion falls on the chief engineer Alexander Nica and his assistant Laurenz. Both are placed before the court; accused by the night watchman Bruns; and sentenced to death for industrial espionage. Before sentencing, however, Nica succeeds in getting away. Now he’s trying to find proof to convince the court of his and Laurenz’ innocence.
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Kautschuk (1938)
Character: Kapitän Murray
About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation between adventure, military conquest and imperialism.
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Heimat (1938)
Character: Max von Wendlowsky
In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival in the German residence of Ilmingen. It soon becomes obvious that she is non other than Magda von Schwartze, who left the town eight years ago against her father's wishes to become a singer.
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Das Mädchen vom Moorhof (1958)
Character: Amtmann Lindgren
Beautiful young Helga gets publicly shamed because a rich land owner seduced and impregnated her but refuses to take responsibility in a story of love and death in Sweden.
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Schmutziger Engel (1958)
Character: Direktor Schorlemmer
A teacher is defamed in an obscene way by an over-excited pupil.
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Teufel in Seide (1956)
Character: Dr. Zacharias
After leaving his overbearing wife for another woman, a composer is suspected of her murder when she is found dead.
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Herzkönig (1947)
Character: King / Peter Petroni
After drinking too much alcohol, King Michael XXXVII promptly forgets his own wedding date! To avoid a scandal, his police minister asks the writer Peter Petroni, who looks deceptively like the king, to stand in for the alcoholic Michael at the ceremony. The only trouble is that the game quickly turns serious - because when Peter catches sight of "his" bride at the altar, it's love at first sight...
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Zwei Herzen im Mai (1958)
Character: Direktor Leisemann
The musician Peter Paul Müller (Dieter Borsche) lives for his job. So much so that he also forgets the circumstances of the Nazi dictatorship. In the years between 1930 and 1946 he was only allowed to perform in small clubs, but after he met the pretty singer Marion (Vera Molnar), the big breakthrough came. But with the many appearances, the relationship with his wife Annemie (Kristina Söderbaum) threatens to break up.
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Das späte Mädchen (1951)
Character: Dr. Hans Ahlgrimm
Ernestine Stengel works as a housekeeper in a small northern German hotel that guests like to visit, especially at weekends. She is still single and, given her age, no longer quite "fresh", or as they say, a "late girl". At least that is what her regular guest, Dr. Hans Ahlgrimm, calls her. One day, Ernestine finds her little bit of happiness, and it is a monetary one: she wins the lottery.
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Kronjuwelen (1950)
Character: Willroy
As foreign troops occupy the country, the government commissions a jeweler to bring the crown jewels to safety.
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Escale à Orly (1955)
Character: Eugène Boreau
Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems arise when he is transferred to the Tokyo route. Meanwhile Michèle's uncle Albert who works in the freight department sets out to tackle a drug trafficking outfit.
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Heimat, deine Lieder (1959)
Character: Friedrich Werner
A romantic musical comedy about a young kindergarten teacher who suddenly meets her love.
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Verbrechen nach Schulschluss (1959)
Character: Landgerichtsdirektor Dr. Senftenberg
High school student Fabian König is kicked out of school and starts a gang that specializes in theft. He falls in love with the orphan girl Ulla, but she rejects him when she finds out how he spends his time. When the pimp Horst tries to rape Ulla, she is rescued by Fabian. Shortly afterwards, Horst's body is found and Fabian is convicted of the murder due to the false testimony of a witness. In prison, he comes to trust the prison doctor Dr. Knittel, who believes him and is able to unmask the real culprit.
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Der Mann im Strom (1958)
Character: Egon Iversen
61-year-old Paul Hinrichs impersonates being 10 year younger in order to get a job as diver once again.
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Kriegsgericht (1959)
Character: Dr. Wilhelmi, Verteidiger
In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but then it becomes apparent that these men actually jumped ship three hours before the boat sank. The men are tried and subsequently executed.
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Gustav Adolfs Page (1960)
Character: Bürgermeister Leubelfing
Gustl Leubelfing, daughter of the mayor of Nuremberg adores the king of the Swedes. So she happily substitutes her brother as Gustav Adolf's page instead of marrying her fiancée Roland. Of course she has to hide that she's a woman, especially when they go into war against Wallenstein.
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Trenck, der Pandur (1940)
Character: Rittmeister Laudon
Film about the fictitious adventures of Franz Freiherr von Trenck, who lived during the times of empress Maria Theresia of Austria garnished with espionage and twisted love affairs.
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Chemie und Liebe (1948)
Character: Dr. Alland
A chemist and his assistant make a groundbreaking discovery. They manage to make butter directly from pasture grass without having to deal with either the cow or the use of dairy products. An industrialist attempts to seize the invention.
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Diesmal muß es Kaviar sein (1961)
Character: Erzähler
Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working again, and soon it's difficult to say if he is doing his job, or turned out as double agent for England, France or even communist Russia! To save his skin, he'll do - almost - anything, to anyone...
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Die feuerrote Baronesse (1959)
Character: Professor Reimer
During the final days of the Second World War, British intelligence sends an agent to Berlin to try to discover the secrets of Nazi Germany's nuclear weapons program.
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Herrin der Welt - Teil I (1960)
Character: Colonel Dagget
Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped by a group of profit-seeking mercenaries. Meanwhile, his daughter, Karin, finds herself having to consort with all manner of shady characters as she searches for her father.
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Herrin der Welt - Teil II (1960)
Character: Colonel Dagget
Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself retreats to a Cambodian monastery in order to escape the gangsters' shots and recover. Meanwhile, the international criminals manage to steal Johanson's energy formula. Karin then goes after the thieves, supported by Lundstrom. But he also has his own goals. The hunt takes them around the world. It soon turns out that a certain Madame Latour is behind the sinister machinations. Eventually old Johanson falls into her hands. In Southeast Asia, a showdown ensues between the kidnappers and Lundstrom and Karin.
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Ich bin auch nur eine Frau (1962)
Character: Dr. Katz, Nervenarzt
A psychotherapist's love life is a disaster because of her own fears and neuroses. Involving herself in her patients love life add more complications.
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Die Nacht in Venedig (1942)
Character: Dr.Nikolaus Roll, genannt Niki, Kaufmann
The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end. Peter, however, is intent on winning back his now ex-wife. So he’s come up with the idea of a guest performance in Venice, where the two will both appear. Vilma, however, has already found a new man – Niki. He’s a salesman and she wants to marry him. With the help of Annemarie, a friend, who has won a trip to Venice, Peter succeeds in diverting Niki, for he falls in love with Annemarie. Now the way is free for Peter to win back the ex-wife, who couldn’t care if he lived in a hole six feet underground.
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Der große König (1942)
Character: Niehoff
King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren't going well. The Austrians are inflicting major casualties, and his army is beginning to crumble. Defeat seems inevitable when a combination of events gives him hope that he may pull victory from the jaws of defeat after all.
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Town Without Pity (1961)
Character: Karl Steinhof
Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Grant.
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Fünf unter Verdacht (1950)
Character: Thomsen
In the Danish port city of Belgesund, the caretaker of a private high school has fallen victim to murder. Detective Thomsen takes on the case and finds that behind the clean facade there are abysses. He has five suspects in mind: the teacher Berling, who is having a relationship with a student, the twin brother and sole heir of the murdered man, the murdered man's shady roommate, the primary school teacher Klaus Erikson and his brother Jakob.
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I cento cavalieri (1964)
Character: Alfonso Ordoñez, alcalde
Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.
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Dr (1962)
Character: Dr. Rajzer
In the moment when Belgrade industrialist Života Cvijović had dreams to marry off his son Milorad, Doctor of Philosophy, to a minister of transport's daughter, a telegram from Milorad's professor from Heidelberg arrives, saying that he wants to visit them. Bad luck is that Velimir, a poor student, was financed by Milorad, and studying under his name received a diploma.
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In jenen Tagen (1947)
Character: Wolfgang Grunelius
A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.
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Der Schatz der Azteken (1965)
Character: Don Pedro Arbellez
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
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Titanic (1943)
Character: Offizier Petersen
This little-known German film retells the true story of the British ocean liner that met a tragic fate. Ernst Fritz Fürbringer plays the president of the White Star Line, who unwisely pressed the Titanic's captain (Otto Wernicke) to make the swiftest possible crossing to New York.
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Anders als du und ich (§ 175) (1957)
Character: Max Mertens
Klaus is a young man in post-war Berlin. He is drawn to his friend Manfred and, under the encouragement of their acquaintance, Dr. Winkler, explore the underground world of gay clubs and electronic music. His family begins to learn of his other life and do everything they can to set him straight.
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Friedrich Schiller – Der Triumph eines Genies (1940)
Character: Eleve Scharffenstein
The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy (the pride and joy of the Duke of Württemberg). Schiller is disgusted by the everyday routine of the military, always back and forth between breeding and drills. Conversation, conflict or even critique are discouraged – the oppression insufferable for the young rebel. Disgusted by the brutality, he writes his drama "The Bandit", which he would later publish anonymously. But following a frank conversation with the Duke, Schiller is dishonored and must leave the land.
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Los pistoleros de Arizona (1965)
Character: Richter Keystone
Jeff Clayton, who has already won $5,000 at poker when the game’s big loser returns, asking for one last hand.
This time, the stranger will wager his portion of a ranch. He loses, tries to gun down Clayton in despair, and loses again, winding up dead on the floor of the saloon.
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Gestehen Sie, Dr. Corda! (1958)
Character: Dr. Nagel
A doctor goes to meet a beautiful girl at a park bench near a wooded area. When he arrives, he finds her battered body lying next to a stream! He then finds himself to be the prime suspect. Who's the killer?
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Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes (1965)
Character: Don Pedro Arbellez
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.
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Das indische Tuch (1963)
Character: Mr. Tilling
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.
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Das siebente Opfer (1964)
Character: Reverend Turner
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.
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Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse (1963)
Character: Chef vom Yard
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.
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The Brain (1962)
Character: Immerman
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
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Der Engel mit dem Saitenspiel (1944)
Character: Bernhard Zoller
Achim and Vera are friends and live an uncomplicated and happy life .... that is, until they get into their first serious argument on how they should spend New Year's Eve. Vera wants to celebrate with friends, while Achim wants to go off to a lonely mountain hut. And so, he goes off alone into the mountains. In the hut, he meets the student Susanne, with whom he spends New Years' Eve; gets to know well; and falls in love with. Unfortunately, through misfortune, they lose sight of each other afterwards...
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Vor Sonnenuntergang (1956)
Character: Dr. Steynitz, Sanitätsrat
Based on a play by Gerhardt Hauptmann, the film details a bittersweet May-December romance between ageing Mathias Clausen (Albers) and young, beautiful Inken Peters (Annemarie Dueringer).
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Das Todesauge von Ceylon (1963)
Character: Professor Ferlach
A valuable ruby disappears during an earthquake. Professor Ferlach is tasked with excavating the buried temple. Mysterious things are happening during the excavation and strangers are trying to stop them. The archaeologist Prof. Ferlach gets unexpected help from the animal catcher Larry Stone and his daughter Helga, who actively help with the research and excavations.
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Die Wahrheit über Rosemarie (1959)
Character: Bernbeill
Based on an actual post-war murder in Frankfurt, this standard docudrama by Rudolf Jugert is a serious treatment of the story as compared to the earlier, satirical film The Girl Rosemarie. The history of the case of Rosemarie, a hooker, and how she came to be strangled in her apartment is not completely clear. One of the suspects in the case was first charged, later acquitted, but never really free of an aura of culpability. British actress Belinda Lee plays the title role with her voice dubbed over in German.
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Der Würger von Schloss Blackmoor (1963)
Character: Tavish
A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.
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Das Ungeheuer von London City (1964)
Character: Inspector Dorner
Then the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to be very much alive in 1960s London as a series of brutal slayings by the Monster of London City has Scotland Yard baffled. In a macabre coincidence, a new play about the famous murderer is about to become a major West End hit... and the leading man is rapidly becoming the prime suspect!
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Herrenpartie (1964)
Character: Major a.d. Friedrich Hackländer
A group of West German men on a stag party find themselves stranded in a Montenegrin village inhabited only by vengeful women since all their men were shot during the war.
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Ich klage an (1941)
Character: Dr. Höfer
In this film, the wife of a renowned doctor becomes ill with multiple sclerosis. Trying to spare her beloved husband the ordeal, the woman turns to a family friend, Dr. Lang, to help end her life. When this doctor declines to help with the assisted suicide, however, she is forced to turn to her husband. After much soul-searching, Dr. Heyt, her husband, assists in her suicide. The act, however, is witnessed by a chambermaid, who reports him to the police. Dr. Heyt is put on trial for murder and, at first, Dr. Lang testifies against him in court. Soon, however, Dr. Lang is faced with a similar case in his professional practice and this, along with Dr. Heyt’s impassioned performance in court, convinces Dr. Lang that, in some instances, mercy killing may be the right thing to do.
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Hochzeit auf Immenhof (1956)
Character: Pankraz
The Immenhof has been closed by officials, awaiting auction. In the meantime, Angela has died, so Jochen is now a widower. Oma Jantzen and Angela's younger sisters Dick and Dalli live with him in the forester's house. In order to save the manor house, Dalli has started a "pony circus" with the village children in the barn, while Dick has given up hope of Ethelbert ever returning.
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