Marie Glory was a French actress.
Nico Dostal was an Austrian composer who later specialised in operetta and film music.
Jameson Thomas was an English film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1923 and 1939.
Sisters, or the Balance of Happiness is a 1979 West German drama film written and directed by Margarethe von Trotta.
Nils Olaf Chrisander was a Swedish actor and film director in the early part of the twentieth century.
Gaston Modot was a French actor. For more than 50 years he performed for the cinema working with a number of great French directors.
The Green Monocle is a 1929 German silent crime film directed by Rudolf Meinert and starring Ralph Clancy, Betty Bird and Suzy Vernon. The film was based on a novel by Guido Kreutzer. It features the fictional detective Stuart Webbs, one of several German fictional characters inspired by Sherlock Holmes, who had appeared in a series of silent films during the 1910s and 1920s.
Robert Garrison was a German-Jewish film actor.
Guido Herzfeld was a German stage and film actor. Herzfeld established himself in the theatre in the nineteenth century. In 1914 he made his film debut and went on to appear in over sixty films before his death.
Artur Guttmann was an Austrian-Jewish film score composer.
Alkohol is a 1919 German silent drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and Alfred Lind and starring Wilhelm Diegelmann, Ernst Rückert, and Georg H. Schnell. The film was begun by Lind but finished by Dupont. It was his first major melodrama, and represented a breakthrough in his career. The film's theme and setting foreshadow much of his later work. It was one in a series of "Enlightenment films" examining social issues, which were produced around the time. It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.
Ekkehard Arendt was an Austrian stage and film actor. Arendt served in the Austrian Army during the First World War, before moving to Germany to work in the theatre and film industry. He played the role of Handel Vane in Alfred Hitchcock's 1931 film Mary and the dishonest bank director in The Virtuous Sinner (1931). Arendt later returned to live in Austria.
My Daughter's Tutor is a 1929 German silent comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Harry Liedtke, Dolly Davis, and Charles Puffy. The plot closely mirrored that of Ernst Lubitsch's The Oyster Princess. It was shot at the Tempelhof Studios in Berlin. The film's art director was Robert Neppach.
Hans Jacoby (1904–1963) was a German screenwriter. Jacoby was of Jewish background and was forced to go into exile when the Nazi Party took power in 1933. Jacoby settled in the United States for many years, working on the screenplays of a number of Hollywood productions. He returned to Germany in the mid-1950s, and worked in the West German film industry until his death.
Secrets of the Orient is a 1928 German-French silent drama film directed by Alexandre Volkoff and starring Nikolas Kolin, Iván Petrovich and Dimitri Dimitriev. It was made at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin while Location shooting took place in Nice and French Tunisia. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Alexandre Lochakoff and Vladimir Meingard. A sound version of the film was prepared by Gaumont for English speaking audiences. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it features a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc and sound-on-film process.
Karina Bell was a Danish actress. She primarily worked as a film actress and was active from 1919 to 1933. Bell was credited in at least 21 Danish, German, and Swedish films during her career.
Under the Leather Helmet is a 1932 British-French drama film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Pierre Richard-Willm, Gina Manès and Gaston Modot. The film's sets were designed by the art director Pierre Schild.
Two Worlds is the German version of an English-language film directed by Ewald André Dupont.
The Time of the Cherries is a 1938 French drama film directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois and starring Gaston Modot, Svetlana Pitoëff and Fabien Loris. It takes its title from the song of the same name. The film's sets were designed by the art director Georges Wakhévitch.
Eugen Thiele (1897–1938) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. Of Jewish background he was the younger brother of Wilhelm Thiele. After a spell as an actor he established himself as a director in the Germany film industry of the early 1930s during the final years of the Weimar Republic. The Nazi seizure of power in 1933 brought an effective end to the career of the Jewish Thiele, who went into exile in Prague where he wrote the screenplay for one German-language film The Happiness of Grinzing, and may have also contributed to a German version of the Czech film Romance from the Tatra Mountains. He then returned to his native Austria, living in Baden bei Wien. He died the same year of the Anschluss which brought Austria under Nazi control.
