Theo Lingen

Born: 1903-06-09

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 Bauernfänger
Released: 1931-05-11

In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes...

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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

as Karetzky
Released: 1933-04-21

After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he...

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Pepe, der Paukerschreck

as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb Taft
Released: 1969-06-26

Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft secretly places his nephew as a spy with the difficult class of...

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Zum Teufel mit der Penne

as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb Taft
Released: 1968-12-11

Pepe Notnagel (who inexplicably had his name changed from the first movie's Nietnagel) and his...

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Das Einmaleins der Liebe

as Melchior Feuerfuchs
Released: 1935-09-19

Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the...

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Main Thing Holidays

as Herr Kannenberg
Released: 1972-09-14

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Heidi

as Sebastian
Released: 1952-11-13

Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss...

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Betragen ungenügend!

as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb Taft
Released: 1972-06-06

A German comedy from 1972 directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb. Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft...

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Tante Trude aus Buxtehude

as Pauli
Released: 1971-04-14

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Der Löwe von Babylon

as Sir David Lindsay
Released: 1959-10-19

In the ruins of Nim Bis Rub, in Babylon, is a band of smugglers den. There goes Nemsi Kara Ben...

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Hurrah, the School Is Burning

as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb Taft
Released: 1969-12-17

A new teacher, Dr. Dr. Bach, is transferred from his quiet village elementary school to the...

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Die Nacht vor der Premiere

as Karl Schmitt
Released: 1959-05-13

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Wir hau'n die Pauker in die Pfanne

as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Taft / Gotthold Emmanuel Taft
Released: 1970-07-07

Principal Gottlieb Taft's twin brother Gotthold Taft partakes in the most recent prank by faking...

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Der große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt

as Self
Released: 1973-10-30

"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director,...

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Zur Hölle mit den Paukern

as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb Taft
Released: 1968-04-03

Pepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to...

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Die Beine von Dolores

as Theobald Schreyer
Released: 1957-01-01

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The Daughter of the Regiment

as Colonello
Released: 1953-09-03

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Was geschah in dieser Nacht?

as Anton
Released: 1941-10-31

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My Heart Calls You

as Coq, sein Sekretär
Released: 1934-03-23

An opera company tries to get an engagement.

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The Stars Shine

as Gast
Released: 1938-03-17

German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.

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The Model Boy

as Prof. Dr. Liebreich
Released: 1963-05-17

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Das Lied der Nachtigall

as Der Sekretär
Released: 1944-01-07

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The Great Longing

as Himself
Released: 1930-08-24

During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow,...

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Winter Night's Dream

as Kautz
Released: 1935-02-13

The wintry mountainscapes of Bavaria provide the backdrop for this airy German comedy. The story...

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The Testament of Cornelius Gulden

as Edgar Magnussen
Released: 1932-11-03

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Mit Rosen fängt die Liebe an

as Tom Hossfeld
Released: 1957-09-26

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An Invisible Man Goes Through the City

as Gast
Released: 1933-09-28

A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but...

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Die tollen Tanten schlagen zu

as Dr.Theo Schatz
Released: 1971-09-24

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Die kleine Schwindlerin

as Sohn
Released: 1933-04-02

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Heidi und Peter

as Sebastian
Released: 1955-03-08

Heidi lives with Alp-Öhi n the Swiss Alps in the summer, where she helps Peter tend the goats....

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Die Sklavenkarawane

as Sir David Lindsay
Released: 1958-12-11

The dreaded slave hunter Abu el Mot attacks the caravan and abducts the travelers, including...

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The Czar's Courier

as Blount, englischer Journalist
Released: 1936-04-23

A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a...

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Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am besten

as Theo Frobenius
Released: 1971-02-09

The days of the Schlosshotel Seefels appear to be numbered. Hotelier Theo Frobenius is forced to...

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A Mad Idea

as Oberkellner
Released: 1932-05-12

A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's...

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Wie werde ich Filmstar

as Paul Kubisch
Released: 1955-07-20

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Wenn mein Schätzchen auf die Pauke haut

as Berzelius
Released: 1971-08-19

The composer Kristian Wernher is supposed to transport uranium-containing rock samples from...

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No More Love

as Rhinelander
Released: 1931-07-26

An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them...

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Sieben Jahre Glück

as Paul Griebling
Released: 1942-10-09

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Der Doppelgänger

as Detektiv Superbus
Released: 1934-02-01

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Was wird hier gespielt?

as uncredited
Released: 1940-07-19

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The Heathens of Kummerow

as Sanftleben
Released: 1967-12-20

Kummerow, a village in North East Germany, around 1900: Mean-spirited miller Düker wants to...

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Die Feuerzangenbowle

as Professor Crey
Released: 1970-09-18

The title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening...

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Lady Dracula

as Theo Marmorstein
Released: 1977-03-15

A beautiful blonde bitten by Count Dracula 100 years previously is unearthed in Vienna, and soon...

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Dolly is making a career

as Conny Coon
Released: 1930-09-29

Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer...

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Opera Ball

as Hausdiener Philipp
Released: 1939-12-22

After the operetta of the same name of Richard Heuberger in 1890-1914 all kinds of situation...

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Hochzeitsreise zu dritt

as Klinke
Released: 1939-10-30

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Morgen fällt die Schule aus

as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Taft
Released: 1971-05-27

Pepe Nietnagel's father has a valuable stamp collection stolen in Amsterdam. Street musician Pit...

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Liebe muss verstanden sein

as Hotel-Emil
Released: 1933-08-03

The stenotypist Margit is supposed to take 3,000 Marks to the bank for her boss, Mr. Plaumann,...

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Waltz Melodies

as Schnuller, Ballettmeister
Released: 1938-01-20

The big revue star Marietta falls in love and gives up the stage career. The theatre stands...

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Heaven on Earth

as Platzer
Released: 1935-01-01

A poor composer who should buy a property for his ambitious father-in-law finances with the...

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Rosen in Tirol

as Baron Leberle
Released: 1940-12-05

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Premiere

as Josef Anatol Dornbusch
Released: 1937-02-25

As Fraulein Leander prepares for opening night, her life is thrown into turmoil by a variety of...

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The Tsar's Diamond

as Köppke, Redakteur
Released: 1932-11-29

A Russian lady singer in Germany falls for a countryman working in a car factory there, who...

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It All Started So Gaily

as Bonifatius 'Boni' Zeck
Released: 1944-08-28

Clemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: ...

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Wer zuletzt küßt...

as Toni Miller
Released: 1936-02-27

On the occasion of a charity ball in Vienna a kiss of a famous actress should be auctioned....

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A Song Goes Round the World

as Herr Himmel
Released: 1958-11-14

A biopic of the singer and film actor Joseph Schmidt. The title is a reference to his best-known...

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Her Highness the Saleswoman

as Felix
Released: 1934-09-29

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Die Wirtin zur Goldenen Krone

as Blackwell
Released: 1955-12-20

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Held einer Nacht

as Oberlehrer Schneemilch
Released: 1935-05-01

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Waltz War

as Sir Philipps
Released: 1933-10-03

The quarrel between the waltz king Joseph Lanner and his still unknown violinist Johann Strauss....

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The Secret Carrier

as Dr. Thoms
Released: 1975-06-29

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Hilfe, ich bin unsichtbar

as Fritz Sperling
Released: 1951-07-06

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Almenrausch und Edelweiß

as Kammerdiener Leo Amadeus Schulze
Released: 1957-12-20

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Till Eulenspiegel, der unsterbliche Spötter

as Till Eulenspiegel
Released: 1936-01-01

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Don't Be Afraid of Love

as Teddy Flink
Released: 1933-12-12

The unemployed secretary Käte applies a job by mistake in the piano factory of the entrepreneur...

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Meine Tante, deine Tante

as Theo Möller
Released: 1956-09-06

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The Restless Girls

as Kurt Stegemann
Released: 1938-02-11

Four orphaned friends move after the Abitur, supported by the janitor of her school, together in...

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Opernball

as Philipp, Diener bei Dannhauser
Released: 1956-08-29

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Modern dowry

as Brömmel - Autoverkäufer
Released: 1932-08-30

Dan Douglas is a typical Scottish. When his niece Evelyne marries engineer Fred Keller aboard...

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Marion, das gehört sich nicht

as Der 2. Reklamechef bei Satorius
Released: 1933-02-15

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A Waltz for You

as Flint
Released: 1934-08-11

Ruritanian power struggle with opera singing.

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The Indian Tomb

as Emil Sperling
Released: 1938-01-27

After the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his...

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Viennese Spirit

as Jean
Released: 1942-04-03

A musical comedy directed by Willi Forst.

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The Midnight Venus

as Meister Anton
Released: 1951-03-01

An inventive small-town tailor rises to international success with his daring and unusual designs.

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Bei Pichler stimmt die Kasse nicht

as Pichler
Released: 1961-05-18

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...und wer küßt mich?

as Der Inspizient
Released: 1933-03-07

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Um eine Nasenlänge

as Felix Rabe
Released: 1949-10-24

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.. und wer küsst mich?

as uncredited
Released: 1956-03-30

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Flucht nach Nizza

as Kommissar Grimm
Released: 1933-06-13

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The Man Who is Talked About

as Diener Haßler
Released: 1937-02-05

The Man Who is Talked About is the overly agreeable Toni Mathis (Heinz Ruhmann), a gent...

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Liebesheirat

as Leo Flügel
Released: 1949-05-06

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Die vertagte Hochzeitsnacht

as Dr. Reinhold Zibelius
Released: 1953-07-01

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Tonio Kröger

as Tanzmeister Knaak
Released: 1964-09-02

This drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude...

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I Don't Know You and I Love You

as Diener Stephan
Released: 1934-02-01

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Christoph Kolumbus oder Die Entdeckung Amerikas

as König Ferdinand
Released: 1970-02-04

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Der Optimist

as uncredited
Released: 1938-10-20

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The Thief of Bagdad

as Hadschi
Released: 1952-04-10

Fatma has quite the talent for getting herself into trouble and escaping with her head intact....

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Jetzt schlägt's 13

as Max
Released: 1950-09-18

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Trees Are Blooming in Vienna

as Herr Schindler
Released: 1958-08-01

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The Flute Concert of Sans-souci

as Kent
Released: 1930-12-19

In 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister...

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The Countess of Monte Cristo

as Etagenkellner
Released: 1932-04-21

The two aspiring actresses Jeanette and Mimi are waiting for their big chance. But the real...

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Petersburger Nächte

as Hitzinger, Konzertagent
Released: 1935-01-04

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Married by the Stork

as uncredited
Released: 1932-12-17

A modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital,...

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Marionette

as Luigi
Released: 1939-01-26

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Die Finanzen des Großherzogs

as Fuerst Potemkin
Released: 1934-01-10

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Tanz auf dem Vulkan

as Graf Cambouilly
Released: 1938-11-30

Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song,...

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Csibi, der Fratz

as Anton, Diener bei Dr. Werner
Released: 1934-03-07

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A Man's a Man

as uncredited
Released: 1931-12-31

About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the...

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Dreimal Hochzeit

as Felix
Released: 1941-06-24

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Kleiner Mann – was nun?

as Verkäufer
Released: 1933-08-03

First adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel of the same name.

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Herz – modern möbliert

as Hans Schröder
Released: 1940-10-29

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Drunter und drüber

as uncredited
Released: 1939-02-17

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Wenn die Alpenrosen blüh'n

as Dr. Krüger
Released: 1955-09-22

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The White Horse Inn

as Kommerzienrat Fürst
Released: 1935-12-06

Im weißen Rößl (English title: White Horse Inn or The White Horse Inn) is an operetta or musical...

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Zwei himmelblaue Augen

as Mr. Bottlekeeper
Released: 1932-01-21

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Ein tolles Hotel

as August Birnstiel
Released: 1956-06-14

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Die fromme Helene

as Onkel Nolte
Released: 1965-12-21

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Gipfelstürmer

as Ein Kellner
Released: 1933-04-06

Film by Wenzler.

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Rote Mühle

as uncredited
Released: 1940-01-11

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Into the Blue

as uncredited
Released: 1931-12-31

A recent rediscovery, master cinematographer Schüfftan’s only film as a director is a...

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Sieben Jahre Pech

as Paul, Kerstens Diener
Released: 1940-12-19

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The Prodigal Son

as uncredited
Released: 1934-09-06

Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great...

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The Firm Weds

as Reisender Philipps
Released: 1931-01-19

Remake of a silent Lubitsch: A country girl right out of high school graduates to a place in her...

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Ich sehne mich nach dir

as Pelle
Released: 1934-12-20

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Schäm' dich, Brigitte!

as Paul Fellmeier
Released: 1952-09-04

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Eine Stadt steht kopf

as Fred
Released: 1933-01-21

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Ein falscher Fuffziger

as Karl Lehmann
Released: 1935-02-28

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My Wife, the Adventuress

as Manager
Released: 1931-09-17

A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.

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Ihr größter Erfolg

as Augustin Schöpser, Ballettmeister
Released: 1934-12-01

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Liebeskomödie

as Max, Oberkellner im Imperial
Released: 1943-01-10

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Hilfe, die Verwandten kommen

as Onkel Theo
Released: 1971-07-14

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Two Ties

as Charles
Released: 1930-10-15

Opera style film in which a crook offers to change ties with a waiter, so he can escape. The...

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Drei Mann auf einem Pferd

as Mackie
Released: 1957-10-04

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Zigeuner der Nacht

as Theo
Released: 1932-10-31

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Heute nacht passiert’s

as Studienrat Dr. Bräutigam
Released: 1953-05-20

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The Ladies Diplomat

as Drage
Released: 1932-03-18

Diplomat Fürst Windischberg is known for spending too much time with women, receiving frequent...

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Eine Reise ins Glück

as Notar Tabarelli
Released: 1958-12-25

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Glück muß man haben

as Wimmerl
Released: 1950-12-22

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Der Ammenkönig

as Der Keuschheitskommissar
Released: 1935-12-05

Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of...

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Zwei im Sonnenschein

as Verkäufer
Released: 1933-11-02

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Der Theodor im Fußballtor

as Theo Lubitz
Released: 1950-08-28

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Das große Glück

as Ronald
Released: 1967-09-14

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Orpheus in der Unterwelt

as Styx
Released: 1973-02-24

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My Life Is at Stake

as Fritz Schlemke
Released: 1936-12-05

The Berlin lawyer Dr. Lessner (Karl Ludwig Diehl) is involved in a murder case. His wife, movie...

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All for Veronica

as Abteilungschef Fuchs
Released: 1936-08-21

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Liebe dumme Mama

as Fischer
Released: 1934-09-03

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The Tiger of Eschnapur

as Emil Sperling
Released: 1938-01-06

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Hauptsache glücklich!

as uncredited
Released: 1941-04-02

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Immer Ärger mit Hochwürden

as Bishop
Released: 1972-10-12

A new highway, a new chairlift, the election of the new mayor and again a lot of alcohol.

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Pension Schöller

as Professor Schöller
Released: 1960-07-14

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Frederica

as Lachender Herr
Released: 1932-11-01

Based on Franz Lehar's operetta, about the first woman whom the great German writer Goethe fell...

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Der Schlafwagenkontrolleur

as Alois
Released: 1935-03-15

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Nichts als Zufälle

as Dr. Renatus Elmhorst
Released: 1949-07-01

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Ein Mädel wirbelt durch die Welt

as Hugo Kühlemann, Prokurist
Released: 1934-03-02

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Vater macht Karriere

as Schneidermeister Titus Hasenklein
Released: 1957-02-26

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You Only Live Once

as Robert Heinemann
Released: 1952-11-07

Remake of the 1931 film The Man in Search of His Murderer.

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Unentschuldigte Stunde

as Fritz Ortmann - Lehramtskandidat
Released: 1937-09-24

When the schoolgirl Kate defends her friend, she is expelled from school. To conceal the...

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Marguerite : 3

as Karl Findeisen
Released: 1939-05-21

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Ich heirate meine Frau

as Heinrich Wittekind
Released: 1934-11-16

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Ihr Privatsekretär

as Dr. Kiesewetter
Released: 1940-02-22

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Ein Hochzeitstraum

as Prinz von Illyrien
Released: 1936-10-07

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Die Kassette

as Heinrich Krull
Released: 1961-02-23

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Eine Frau fürs ganze Leben

as Ganove
Released: 1960-09-26

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Das Blumenmädchen vom Grand-Hotel

as Thumser, Spielleiter
Released: 1934-04-10

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Der große Bluff

as Der Pressechef
Released: 1933-02-02

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Without Trumpet or Drum

as Colonel Tuplitz
Released: 1959-12-22

Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in...

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The Charm of La Bohème

as Aristide Boupon
Released: 1937-01-01

René and his two artist friends lead a meager but careless life in a Parisian small apartment,...

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Die Entführung

as Justin
Released: 1936-03-31

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…heute abend bei mir

as Flipp, the servant
Released: 1934-04-26

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Egon der Frauenheld

as uncredited
Released: 1957-10-03

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Diskretion – Ehrensache

as Lord Benton
Released: 1938-08-23

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The Devil May Well Laugh

as Hoteldirektor
Released: 1960-12-15

Three bums get played by the devil.

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Fremdenheim Filoda

as Paul 'Bulli' Trinkmeyer
Released: 1937-09-29

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Paganini

as Hofmarschall Pimpinelli
Released: 1934-07-02

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Tolle Nacht

as Viktor - Dirigent
Released: 1943-09-24

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Through Thick and Thin

as Theodor Müller
Released: 1951-01-01

Theo Müller and his family inherit a vintage car that turns out to have a wayward mind of its...

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Hurra - ein Junge!

as Prof. Waldemar Weber
Released: 1953-12-30

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Kleines Mädel, großes Glück

as Benzig, Besitzer der Audag
Released: 1933-10-23

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Nur ein Viertelstündchen

as Theobald
Released: 1932-12-01

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Die Rudi Carrell Show

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-10-25

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Am laufenden Band

as Self - Guest
First aired: 1974-04-27

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Brecht

as Himself (archive footage)
First aired: 2019-03-22

East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks...

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Klimbim

as Self
First aired: 1973-07-24

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Zwei himmlische Töchter

as Graf Jehan von Hoftenstein
First aired: 1978-02-11

Zwei himmlische Töchter is a German television series.

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Der Monddiamant

as Sergeant Cuff
First aired: 1974-12-25

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Die Witzakademie

as Der Professor
First aired: 1967-05-31

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Hoftheater

as Intendant von Krombholz
First aired: 1975-03-06

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Das alte Hotel

as Studienrat Sesselbein
First aired: 1963-10-10

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Musik & Gäste

as Self
First aired: 1976-10-18

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