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...
Movie pageThe Testament of Dr. Mabuse
as KaretzkyAfter a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he...
Movie pageHeidi
as SebastianHeidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss...
Movie pageTonio Kröger
as Tanzmeister KnaakThis drama is taken from Thomas Mann's 1903 semi-autobiographical novel. Tonio (Jean Claude...
Movie pageFrederica
as Lachender HerrBased on Franz Lehar's operetta, about the first woman whom the great German writer Goethe fell...
Movie pageThe Stars Shine
as GastGerman all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
Movie pageHurrah, the School Is Burning
as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb TaftA new teacher, Dr. Dr. Bach, is transferred from his quiet village elementary school to the...
Movie pageZur 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...
Movie pageZum Teufel mit der Penne
as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb TaftPepe Notnagel (who inexplicably had his name changed from the first movie's Nietnagel) and his...
Movie pageDie Sklavenkarawane
as Sir David LindsayThe dreaded slave hunter Abu el Mot attacks the caravan and abducts the travelers, including...
Movie pagePepe, der Paukerschreck
as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb TaftMommsen Gymnasium director Taft secretly places his nephew as a spy with the difficult class of...
Movie pagePremiere
as Josef Anatol DornbuschAs Fraulein Leander prepares for opening night, her life is thrown into turmoil by a variety of...
Movie pageThe Heathens of Kummerow
as SanftlebenKummerow, a village in North East Germany, around 1900: Mean-spirited miller Düker wants to...
Movie pageWir 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...
Movie pageThe Ladies Diplomat
as DrageDiplomat Fürst Windischberg is known for spending too much time with women, receiving frequent...
Movie pageLady Dracula
as Theo MarmorsteinA beautiful blonde bitten by Count Dracula 100 years previously is unearthed in Vienna, and soon...
Movie pageA Mad Idea
as OberkellnerA series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's...
Movie pageMorgen fällt die Schule aus
as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. TaftPepe Nietnagel's father has a valuable stamp collection stolen in Amsterdam. Street musician Pit...
Movie pageTanz auf dem Vulkan
as Graf CambouillyParis, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song,...
Movie pageDie Feuerzangenbowle
as Professor CreyThe title refers to the Feuerzangenbowle punch consumed by a group of gentlemen in the opening...
Movie pageKleiner Mann – was nun?
as VerkäuferFirst adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel of the same name.
Movie pageBetragen ungenügend!
as Oberstudiendirektor Dr. Gottlieb TaftA German comedy from 1972 directed by Franz Josef Gottlieb. Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft...
Movie pageThe Czar's Courier
as Blount, englischer JournalistA Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a...
Movie pageHeidi und Peter
as SebastianHeidi lives with Alp-Öhi n the Swiss Alps in the summer, where she helps Peter tend the goats....
Movie pageMy Life Is at Stake
as Fritz SchlemkeThe Berlin lawyer Dr. Lessner (Karl Ludwig Diehl) is involved in a murder case. His wife, movie...
Movie pageNo More Love
as RhinelanderAn American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them...
Movie pageLiebe muss verstanden sein
as Hotel-EmilThe stenotypist Margit is supposed to take 3,000 Marks to the bank for her boss, Mr. Plaumann,...
Movie pageDon't Be Afraid of Love
as Teddy FlinkThe unemployed secretary Käte applies a job by mistake in the piano factory of the entrepreneur...
Movie pageWer zuletzt lacht, lacht am besten
as Theo FrobeniusGerman music comedy.
Movie pageThe Indian Tomb
as Emil SperlingAfter the events of Der Tiger von Eschnapur, Maharadscha Chandra is ready to execute his...
Movie pageThe Tsar's Diamond
as Köppke, RedakteurA Russian lady singer in Germany falls for a countryman working in a car factory there, who...
Movie pageDas Einmaleins der Liebe
as Melchior FeuerfuchsIdentities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the...
Movie pageWer zuletzt küßt...
as Toni MillerOn the occasion of a charity ball in Vienna a kiss of a famous actress should be auctioned....
Movie pageWenn mein Schätzchen auf die Pauke haut
as BerzeliusThe composer Kristian Wernher is supposed to transport uranium-containing rock samples from...
Movie pageThe White Horse Inn
as Kommerzienrat FürstIm weißen Rößl (English title: White Horse Inn or The White Horse Inn) is an operetta or musical...
Movie pageThe Great Longing
as HimselfDuring lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow,...
Movie pageMy Wife, the Adventuress
as ManagerA mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.
Movie pageThe Charm of La Bohème
as Aristide BouponRené and his two artist friends lead a meager but careless life in a Parisian small apartment,...
Movie pageDolly is making a career
as Conny CoonMusical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer...
Movie pageWaltz War
as Sir PhilippsThe quarrel between the waltz king Joseph Lanner and his still unknown violinist Johann Strauss....
Movie pageIt All Started So Gaily
as Bonifatius 'Boni' ZeckClemens and Bobi, two legation secretaries, are sent on a delicate mission by their minister: ...
Movie pageWinter Night's Dream
as KautzThe wintry mountainscapes of Bavaria provide the backdrop for this airy German comedy. The story...
Movie pageThe Countess of Monte Cristo
as EtagenkellnerThe two aspiring actresses Jeanette and Mimi are waiting for their big chance. But the real...
Movie pageTwo Ties
as CharlesOpera style film in which a crook offers to change ties with a waiter, so he can escape. The...
Movie pageThe Thief of Bagdad
as HadschiFatma has quite the talent for getting herself into trouble and escaping with her head intact....
Movie pageThe Flute Concert of Sans-souci
as KentIn 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister...
Movie pageWithout Trumpet or Drum
as Colonel TuplitzSummer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in...
Movie pageDer Ammenkönig
as Der KeuschheitskommissarRather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of...
Movie pageA 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...
Movie pageA Man's a Man
as uncreditedAbout a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the...
Movie pageYou Only Live Once
as Robert HeinemannRemake of the 1931 film The Man in Search of His Murderer.
Movie pageA Waltz for You
as FlintRuritanian power struggle with opera singing.
Movie pageImmer Ärger mit Hochwürden
as BishopA new highway, a new chairlift, the election of the new mayor and again a lot of alcohol.
Movie pageThe Midnight Venus
as Meister AntonAn inventive small-town tailor rises to international success with his daring and unusual designs.
Movie pageThrough Thick and Thin
as Theodor MüllerTheo Müller and his family inherit a vintage car that turns out to have a wayward mind of its...
Movie pageOpera Ball
as Hausdiener PhilippAfter the operetta of the same name of Richard Heuberger in 1890-1914 all kinds of situation...
Movie pageDer 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...
Movie pageMarried by the Stork
as uncreditedA modernist lady sculptor seeks a model for a statue to be put in front of a Berlin hospital,...
Movie pageThe Firm Weds
as Reisender PhilippsRemake of a silent Lubitsch: A country girl right out of high school graduates to a place in her...
Movie pageDer große Zauberer - Max Reinhardt
as Self"The Great Magician" - Max Reinhardt (1873-1943) was an Austrian theater and film director,...
Movie pageInto the Blue
as uncreditedA recent rediscovery, master cinematographer Schüfftan’s only film as a director is a...
Movie pageWaltz Melodies
as Schnuller, BallettmeisterThe big revue star Marietta falls in love and gives up the stage career. The theatre stands...
Movie pageThe Devil May Well Laugh
as HoteldirektorThree bums get played by the devil.
Movie pageThe Man Who is Talked About
as Diener HaßlerThe Man Who is Talked About is the overly agreeable Toni Mathis (Heinz Ruhmann), a gent...
Movie pageMy Heart Calls You
as Coq, sein SekretärAn opera company tries to get an engagement.
Movie pageModern dowry
as Brömmel - AutoverkäuferDan Douglas is a typical Scottish. When his niece Evelyne marries engineer Fred Keller aboard...
Movie pageThe Prodigal Son
as uncreditedStory of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great...
Movie pageAn Invisible Man Goes Through the City
as GastA taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but...
Movie pageHeaven on Earth
as PlatzerA poor composer who should buy a property for his ambitious father-in-law finances with the...
Movie pageUnentschuldigte Stunde
as Fritz Ortmann - LehramtskandidatWhen the schoolgirl Kate defends her friend, she is expelled from school. To conceal the...
Movie pageThe Restless Girls
as Kurt StegemannFour orphaned friends move after the Abitur, supported by the janitor of her school, together in...
Movie pageBrecht
as Himself (archive footage)East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks...
TV Show pageZwei himmlische Töchter
as Graf Jehan von HoftensteinZwei himmlische Töchter is a German television series.
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