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Die Marquise von Pompadour (1931)
Character: Ludwig XV., König von Frankreich
Historical romance about French monarch Louis XV and his infatuation with Madame Pompadour.
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Gehetzte Frauen (1927)
Character: Wladimir
The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must evade the advances of several overbearing men. This film is considered lost.
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Eine Nacht im Grandhotel (1931)
Character: Achaz
Fritz is in love with artist Glay, who stays at the Grand Hotel. In spite of not having any money he gets to know her, invites her to supper and after dancing a tango even hires the royal suite. How will he get out of this is a mystery even to himself.
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Der goldene Schmetterling (1926)
Character: N/A
A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice. She has a chance meeting with a handsome impresario, who promises to make her into the greatest dancer the world has ever known.
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Liebe im Ring (1930)
Character: Box-Manager
Originally Liebe in Ring, this German part-talkie is a generally agreeable effort to transform heavyweight boxing champ Max Schmeling into a movie star. It's the old saw about an up-and-coming pugilist who ignores his loyal girlfriend in favor of a wealthy adventuress. His new romance nearly wrecks the hero's career, but with the help of his friends -- and of course, his real sweetheart -- he makes a spectacular comeback. The final scenes show Schmeling and his new bride heading for America, which was evidently Mecca so far as pre-Hitlerian German filmmakers were concerned. Max Schmeling's leading lady in Love in the Ring is Olga Tschechowa; in real life, he married the equally popular actress Anny Ondra
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Der Weg nach Rio (1931)
Character: Barera, casino owner
A young woman causes a fatal accident. She flees the country, only to get caught in the net of Brasilian traffickers.
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Das Frauenhaus von Rio (1927)
Character: Kastillo
White slavers lure young girls to Rio de Janeiro by promising them jobs as showgirls and nightclub singers, then force them into prostitution.
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Die Pflicht zu schweigen (1928)
Character: Iwan Daniloff
The Duty to Remain Silent (German: Die Pflicht zu schweigen) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Carl Wilhelm and starring Marcella Albani, Vivian Gibson, Angelo Ferrari. It was based on a novel by Friedrich Werner van Oestéren. The film's art direction was by Max Heilbronner.
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Dr. Bessels Verwandlung (1927)
Character: Georgakopoulos
Alexander Bessel is a young man in a failing marriage. His wife cheats on him, and so the outbreak of WW1 comes in handy for a change. When young French soldier dies right in front of him Bessel seize the opportunity assuming his identity.
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Salto Mortale (1931)
Character: N/A
Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.
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Manege (1928)
Character: Bela Garay
Brothers Ralph and Gaston are performing in a circus tightrope act, in a fight over a woman. Ralph escalates the tension even further when he tries to rescue a young tightrope walker from the cruelty of her stepfather, the circus ringmaster.
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Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen (1927)
Character: N/A
Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict's grown up son.
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Man braucht kein Geld (1931)
Character: Bank President Binder
In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Groditzkirchen to make a fortune on credit even though he only has $10 to his name. To do so, he enlists the aide of a bank clerk and begins posing as a millionaire.
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Die Dame mit dem Tigerfell (1927)
Character: Meyers
As is the case every year, things get lively at the famous Nice Carnival: People travel from all over the world to join in the revelry. Wearing masks and makeup, people dance in the streets—but not all the revelers are really here for the carnival: Some use the masks merely as a disguise.
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Im weißen Rößl (1926)
Character: N/A
Based on the play of the same name by Oskar Blumenthal and Gustav Kadelburg.
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Die Regimentstochter (1929)
Character: Quippo
Marie, adopted as a baby by Warrant Officer Guippo, helps a smuggler escape because he saved his life previously. She finds him again in Paris while she is engaged to Count Bertrand.
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Zwei in einem Auto (1932)
Character: Agent Niedlich
A young saleslady travels by car to the Riviera with a modest seeming young man who, it turns out, is really a wealthy nobleman.
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Theresienstadt (1944)
Character: Regisseur - Schauspieler
Nazi propaganda film about the Czech "Theresienstadt ghetto" in Terezín. The film was supposed to show the world that Jews didn't suffer in concentration camps. Upon completion, most Jews shown in the film (including director Kurt Gerron) were brought to Auschwitz, where they were killed.
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Dolly macht Karriere (1930)
Character: Silbermann
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.
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Nachtgestalten (1929)
Character: N/A
A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
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Ramper, der Tiermensch (1928)
Character: N/A
Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who makes a pioneering flight across the Arctic accompanied only by Ippling, his faithful mechanic (Kurt Gerron). Near the North Pole, their plane develops engine failure and crashes in the desolate wastes. Ippling dies straight off but Ramper finds a supply base containing food which has been left behind by a previous expedition. After fifteen years in the Arctic wastes, Ramper has considerably mutated.
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Die vom Rummelplatz (1930)
Character: N/A
Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Horbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.
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Das tanzende Wien (1927)
Character: Feuerwehrmann
A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
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Einbrecher (1930)
Character: Polizeikommissar
The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.
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Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü (1929)
Character: guest at night club (Mann im Salon)
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
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Ihre Majestät die Liebe (1933)
Character: Hornberg
Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.
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Menschen am Sonntag (1930)
Character: Kurt
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
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Bomben auf Monte Carlo (1931)
Character: Spielbankdirektor
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.
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Varieté (1925)
Character: Hafenarbeiter
Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
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Der ewige Jude (1940)
Character: (archive footage)
A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of Jewish neighborhoods in recently-conquered Poland is combined with preexisting film clips and stills to defame the religion and advance Hitler's slurs that its adherents were plotting to undermine European civilization.
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Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1929)
Character: Dr. Vitalis
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
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Der blaue Engel (1930)
Character: Kiepert
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
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Prisoner of Paradise (2003)
Character: Self (archival footage)
The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.
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Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930)
Character: Rechtsanwalt Kalmus
Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then, they all fall in love with the same girl.
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