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Die Gefangene von Shanghai (1927)
Character: N/A
Maria Sinclair, the wife of the British consul, is about to visit her husband when she is arrested by the Chinese. General Hai Lung, who is in charge, offers to give her husband his life if she would promise to stay with him instead.
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Terra Melophon Magazin Nr. 1 (1930)
Character: Secretary
Film in the style of a magazine. Various topics, e.g. reading from the book "Ich lasse Dich nicht"; explanation of how a telephone conversation between Berlin and New York works; making a martini; sports teacher Siegfried Dietrich on gymnastic exercises; a sketch; a pop song; revue girls. Maria Ney hosts the program.
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Unter heißem Himmel (1936)
Character: Mr. Hicks
In this exotic adventure, unscrupulous gun runners threaten a captain, and a ship is in danger of sinking.
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Frauen für Golden Hill (1938)
Character: Larry
Women are being sent to an all male settlement. The marriages are planned in advance, but not everything goes according to plan.
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Fiaker Nr. 13 (1926)
Character: François Tapin
The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
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Rembrandt (1942)
Character: N/A
Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. But upon completion of the picture, the men of the guild feel duped, because they don't consider themselves flatteringly depicted in the painting. They therefore decline to pay for the work. During this dispute, the painter finds out his wife is close to death. He finds himself terribly lonely after her passing and suffers from depression until he decides once more to marry.
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Henker, Frauen und Soldaten (1935)
Character: Capt. MacCallum
Nazi propaganda film with Hans Albers starring in a dual role as a daring German airman and a Russian general, two cousins who find themselves facing each other in bitter enmity after the end of World War I.
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Der goldene Schmetterling (1926)
Character: Teddy
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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Die Pflicht zu schweigen (1928)
Character: Robert
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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Die fünf verfluchten Gentlemen (1932)
Character: Strawber
European tourists on holiday in Morocco are threatened by a native sorcerer who predicts five of them will die, one by one, before the full moon.
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Pages of Life (1922)
Character: Lord Mainwaring
A composer's neighbour rescues a seduced waif and discovers she is his daughter.
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Napoleon ist an allem schuld (1938)
Character: N/A
English Lord Arthur Cavershoot is a passionate Napoleon scholar who badly neglects his wife Josephine for his obsession with the French emperor. When the cranky historian travels to a Napoleon conference in Paris, his smart spouse secretly follows him. Unnoticed by her, the city of love threatens to spark a romance between Arthur and a chorus girl.
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Die große Sehnsucht (1930)
Character: Himself
A young woman leaves behind her job, home and family to try to make it in the movie business. Features cameos from about three dozen German film stars of the era.
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Der Scheidungsgrund (1937)
Character: Ralph Fenton
The lawyer, Dr. Werkmann, is seeking a legal separation for Mr. Bernhof, who claims his wife is an incorrigible gambler. In reality, it is he who is the weakling; and while he dearly loves his wife, he's going through her fortune like there's no tomorrow. His wife, however, loves him dearly, too, in spite of his faults and doesn't want the marriage to end. Dr. Werkmann proposes something at a family meeting, which just might save the marriage after all.
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Unfug der Liebe (1928)
Character: Berry
American businesswoman Muriel falls in love with an impoverished nobleman who is too proud to reciprocate her advances. Disappointed, she then succumbs to the persistent pursuit of a fortune hunter who is only after her. The fortune hunter's girlfriend becomes jealous, and to distract her, he persuades the impoverished nobleman to court his girlfriend. This, in turn, makes Muriel jealous, and so, in the end, the right couples are finally brought together.
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Engel mit kleinen Fehlern (1936)
Character: George
Mary arrives in Berlin from Canada to visit her nephew Max and meet his twin daughters that she has been amply supporting financially. But Max has cheated: There is only one daughter Inge who has to enact both girls to cover up the mess.
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The Grass Orphan (1922)
Character: Mulford
British silent drama film based on the 1913 novel The Paupers of Portman Square by I.A.R. Wylie.
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Die Drei um Edith (1929)
Character: Thomas Morland
Notorious jewel thief Roger "Tiger" Brown sneaks into the trust of diamond dealer Thomas Morland. Not only does Morland's jewels appeal to him, but also his fiancée, Lady Edith Trent. But when Morland acquires the largest diamond in the world in Amsterdam, Brown decides against Edith and for the diamond, takes it and runs away.
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Narkose (1929)
Character: René Vernon
Young Angélique has a crush on the famous writer René Vernon. One night she follows him, sleeps with him and becomes pregnant. Years later, she meets Vernon again, but he doesn't recognize her...
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Nachtgestalten (1929)
Character: Jimmy Rice
A man who thinks he killed a millionaire is cared for by a Cockney girl and becomes a composer.
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Mein Leben für Irland (1941)
Character: Kriegsgerichtsvorsitzender
A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.
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Two Worlds (1930)
Character: Captain Stanislaus
An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
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Champagner (1929)
Character: Jean
Jenny, a cheerful kitchen maid at the Paris-style Palais de Luxe, is hopelessly in love with charming head waiter Jean—only to be stood up when he forgets their planned tryst in favor of the hotel’s glamorous dancer, Lola. Humiliated and on the verge of arrest for “stealing” champagne, Jenny hides backstage where she’s mistaken for a performer, wows the crowd with an impromptu dance, and finally wins Jean’s heart.
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Carl Peters (1941)
Character: British Consul
National-Socialist propaganda film that serves to memorialize one of the early representatives of colonialism: the German philologist Carl Peters. He is, at the end of the 1900′s, a noted advocate of the establishment of a German colony. Without support from Germany, he struggles on his own account against the English in East Africa. Later he is named Reichskommissar and promotes the expansion of a German colony. But Jewish and Social-Democrat opponents order him back to Germany and force him to resign.
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Der Katzensteg (1927)
Character: Boreslav - Baron von Schrandens Sohn
In 1807 Prussia, Napoleon supporter Baron von Schranden forces his maid Regine to lead the French enemy across “Cat’s Bridge”, up behind a corps of Prussian volunteers who the French then decimate. In retaliation for this betrayal, the people of Schranden set the lord’s castle on fire. When the baron’s son Boleslav returns to the village a Prussian war hero in 1813, he is faced with a self-righteous village community that has denied his late father a decent burial. Regine is Boleslav’s only ally, and Boleslav is Regine’s only ally. The conflict escalates, and the villagers set up an ambush for him at Cat’s Bridge …
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Not For Sale (1924)
Character: Desmond North
An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
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Rasputins Liebesabenteuer (1928)
Character: Fürst Youssoupoff
Portrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin, the mad monk had such a hold over them.
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Abwege (1928)
Character: Walter Frank
Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife-- An evening of dancing, dolls, cocaine and immoral passion. Irene takes the "devious path" as she seeks to make her husband jealous.
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Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926)
Character: Erich
Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of madness by fantastic nightmares, he encounters a psychoanalyst who offers to treat the perplexing malady.
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Fräulein Else (1929)
Character: Paul
While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.
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Champagne (1928)
Character: The Officer (uncredited)
A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.
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La Chanson des nations (1931)
Character: N/A
A young musician is too late in sending his work to the great international competition of musical composition, intended to foster a better understanding between peoples. He nevertheless wins a large reward and marries his inspiration.
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Lily Christine (1932)
Character: Ivor Summerset
Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey.
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