Theo Lingen
Theo Lingen (* 10. Juni 1903 in Hannover; † 10. November 1978 in Wien; eigentlich Franz Theodor Schmitz) war ein deutscher Schauspieler, Regisseur und Buchautor. Er war seit 1928 mit der Sängerin Marianne Zoff verheiratet, der ersten Frau Bertolt Brechts.
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as BauernfängerIn this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes...
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
as KaretzkyAfter a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he...
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Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne
as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Taft / Gotthold Emmanuel TaftPrincipal Gottlieb Taft's twin brother Gotthold Taft partakes in the most recent prank by faking...
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Lady Dracula
as Theo MarmorsteinA beautiful blonde bitten by Count Dracula 100 years previously is unearthed in Vienna, and soon...
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Opera Ball
as Hausdiener PhilippAfter the operetta of the same name of Richard Heuberger in 1890-1914 all kinds of situation...
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Heidi
as SebastianHeidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss...
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Tonio Kröger
as Tanzmeister KnaakThis drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude...
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Betragen ungenügend!
as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb TaftA German comedy from 1972 directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb. Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft...
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Die Sklavenkarawane
as Sir David LindsayHeiß brennt die Sonne. Eine Karawane schleppt sich durch die trostlose Wüste am oberen Nil....
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Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am besten
as Theo FrobeniusGerman music comedy.
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Zum Teufel mit der Penne
as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb TaftPepe Notnagel (who inexplicably had his name changed from the first movie's Nietnagel) and his...
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The Tsar's Diamond
as Köppke, RedakteurA Russian lady singer in Germany falls for a countryman working in a car factory there, who...
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My Wife, the Adventuress
as ManagerA mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.
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Dolly is making a career
as Conny CoonMusical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer...
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Die Feuerzangenbowle
as Professor CreyThe title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening...
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No More Love
as RhinelanderAn American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them...
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Der Löwe von Babylon
as Sir David LindsayIn the ruins of Nim Bis Rub, in Babylon, is a band of smugglers den. There goes Nemsi Kara Ben...
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My Heart Calls You
as Coq, sein SekretärAn opera company tries to get an engagement.
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The Charm of La Bohème
as Aristide BouponRené and his two artist friends lead a meager but careless life in a Parisian small apartment,...
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Tanz auf dem Vulkan
as Graf CambouillyParis, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song,...
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The Countess of Monte Cristo
as EtagenkellnerThe two aspiring actresses Jeanette and Mimi are waiting for their big chance. But the real...
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Two Ties
as CharlesOpera style film in which a crook offers to change ties with a waiter, so he can escape.The...
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Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director,...
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The Flute Concert of Sans-souci
as KentIn 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister...
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The Ladies Diplomat
as DrageDiplomat Fürst Windischberg is known for spending too much time with women, receiving frequent...
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Hurrah, the School Is Burning
as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb TaftA new teacher, Dr. Dr. Bach, is transferred from his quiet village elementary school to the...
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The Czar's Courier
as Blount, englischer JournalistA Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a...
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The White Horse Inn
as Kommerzienrat FürstIm weißen Rößl (English title: White Horse Inn or The White Horse Inn) is an operetta or musical...
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The Indian Tomb
as Emil SperlingAfter the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his...
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Wenn mein Schätzchen auf die Pauke haut
as BerzeliusThe composer Kristian Wernher is supposed to transport uranium-containing rock samples from...
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Winter Night's Dream
as KautzThe wintry mountainscapes of Bavaria provide the backdrop for this airy German comedy. The story...
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The Devil May Well Laugh
as HoteldirektorThree bums get played by the devil.
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Wer zuletzt küßt...
as Toni MillerOn the occasion of a charity ball in Vienna a kiss of a famous actress should be auctioned....
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Zur Hölle mit den Paukern
as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb TaftPepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to...
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A Mad Idea
as OberkellnerA series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's...
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Don't Be Afraid of Love
as Teddy FlinkThe unemployed secretary Käte applies a job by mistake in the piano factory of the entrepreneur...
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Heidi und Peter
as SebastianHeidi lives with Alp-Öhi n the Swiss Alps in the summer, where she helps Peter tend the goats....
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My Life Is at Stake
as Fritz SchlemkeThe Berlin lawyer Dr. Lessner (Karl Ludwig Diehl) is involved in a murder case. His wife, movie...
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Heaven on Earth
as PlatzerA poor composer who should buy a property for his ambitious father-in-law finances with the...
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The Stars Shine
as GastGerman all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
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Through Thick and Thin
as Theodor MüllerTheo Müller and his family inherit a vintage car that turns out to have a wayward mind of its...
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The Great Longing
as HimselfDuring lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow,...
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Morgen fällt die Schule aus
as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. TaftPepe Nietnagel's father has a valuable stamp collection stolen in Amsterdam. Street musician Pit...
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Pepe, der Paukerschreck
as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb TaftMommsen Gymnasium director Taft secretly places his nephew as a spy with the difficult class of...
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Frederica
as Lachender HerrBased on Franz Lehar's operetta, about the first woman whom the great German writer Goethe fell...
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Without Trumpet or Drum
as Colonel TuplitzSummer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in...
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The Heathens of Kummerow
as SanftlebenKummerow, a village in North East Germany, around 1900: Mean-spirited miller Düker wants to...
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The Thief of Bagdad
as HadschiFatma has quite the talent for getting herself into trouble and escaping with her head intact....
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Unentschuldigte Stunde
as Fritz Ortmann - LehramtskandidatWhen the schoolgirl Kate defends her friend, she is expelled from school. To conceal the...
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Into the Blue
as uncreditedA recent rediscovery, master cinematographer Schüfftan’s only film as a director is a...
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The Midnight Venus
as Meister AntonAn inventive small-town tailor rises to international success with his daring and unusual designs.
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Der Ammenkönig
as Der KeuschheitskommissarRather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of...
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A Song Goes Round the World
as Herr HimmelA biopic of the singer and film actor Joseph Schmidt. The title is a reference to his best-known...
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The Prodigal Son
as uncreditedStory of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great...
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You Only Live Once
as Robert HeinemannRemake of the 1931 film The Man in Search of His Murderer.
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Immer Ärger mit Hochwürden
as BishopA new highway, a new chairlift, the election of the new mayor and again a lot of alcohol.
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The Man Who is Talked About
as Diener HaßlerThe Man Who is Talked About is the overly agreeable Toni Mathis (Heinz Ruhmann), a gent...
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Premiere
as Josef Anatol DornbuschAs Fraulein Leander prepares for opening night, her life is thrown into turmoil by a variety of...
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The Firm Weds
as Reisender PhilippsRemake of a silent Lubitsch: A country girl right out of high school graduates to a place in her...
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A Waltz for You
as FlintRuritanian power struggle with opera singing.
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It All Started So Gaily
as Bonifatius 'Boni' ZeckClemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: ...
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Waltz Melodies
as Schnuller, BallettmeisterThe big revue star Marietta falls in love and gives up the stage career. The theatre stands...
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Modern dowry
as Brömmel - AutoverkäuferDan Douglas is a typical Scottish. When his niece Evelyne marries engineer Fred Keller aboard...
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An Invisible Man Goes Through the City
as GastA taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but...
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The Restless Girls
as Kurt StegemannFour orphaned friends move after the Abitur, supported by the janitor of her school, together in...
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Kleiner Mann – was nun?
as VerkäuferFirst adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel of the same name.
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A Man's a Man
as uncreditedAbout a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the...
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Brecht
as Himself (archive footage)East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks...
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Zwei himmlische Töchter
as Graf Jehan von HoftensteinZwei himmlische Töchter is a German television series.
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