Walter Schlee | |
---|---|
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Years active | 1925-1936 (film) |
Walter Schlee, born 15 December 1894 in Kępno, Posen province, Germany; died 5 February 1964 in Lugano, Switzerland, was a German screenwriter. The Jewish Schlee left German following the Nazi Party's takeover of 1933. He then worked in the Netherlands along with other exiles such as Max Ophuls. [1]
Joseph Henry Kolker was an American stage and film actor and director.
E. W. Emo was an Austrian film director.
Peter Voß was a German film actor.
Otto Wallburg was a German actor and Kabarett performer. He was a prolific film actor during the late silent and early sound era.
Else Elster was a German actress who appeared in over forty films during the Weimar and Nazi eras.
Philipp Manning was a British-born German actor. He was born in Lewisham to a British father and a German mother. He was sent to Germany for his education and settled there. He often played British characters in German films, including in Nazi propaganda ones. He died in Waldshut-Tiengen.
Georg Alexander was a German film actor who was a prolific presence in German cinema. He also directed a number of films during the silent era.
Angelo Ferrari was an Italian actor known for his work in German cinema.
Friedrich Ettel was a Swiss film actor.
Walter Steinbeck was a German film actor.
Betty Bird was an Austrian actress known for Die spanische Fliege (1931), Corazones sin rumbo (1928) and Sturm auf drei Herzen (1930). She was married to Gustav Ucicky until their divorce in 1936.
Gerhard Dammann was a German film actor.
Eugen Rex was a German actor. Rex was a member of the Nazi Party.
Bruno Timm was a German cinematographer.
Paul Anton Heinrich Rehkopf was a German actor.
Paul Kemp was a German stage and film actor. Kemp worked as a piano accompaniest for silent films, and then served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War. Post-war he moved into acting on the stage in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. His career really took off when he moved to Berlin in 1929, appearing in the hit stage version of the novel Menschen im Hotel by Vicki Baum. He made his film debut in 1930, shortly after the introduction of sound film. He appeared prolifically in German and Austrian films until his death in 1953.
Robert Neppach was an Austrian architect, film producer and art director. Neppach worked from 1919 in the German film industry. He oversaw the art direction of over 80 films during his career, including F.W. Murnau's Desire (1921) and Richard Oswald's Lucrezia Borgia (1922). Neppach was comparatively unusual among set designers during the era in having university training.
Walter Wassermann was a German screenwriter. He also directed one film and acted in seven during the silent era. Wassermann was not of Jewish descent. Sigbert S. Prawer got him mixed up with the czech Writer Václav Wasserman whose "German" name was Wenzel
Walter Röhrig was a German art director.
The German foreign office had a sizable network of diplomatic missions when Nazis came to power in 1933. While it was a deeply traditional and elitist organisation within the German civil service, it enthusiastically helped the Nazis prosecute an ambitious foreign policy.