Alexander Engel
Acting
Biography
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Born: June 4, 1902
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Known For
Long Legs, Long Fingers
Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pretext that they are being pursued by the police, he lures his daughter away from the lawyer, but when he confesses the deception to her, Doris immediately sets off for Hammond's country estate near London. However, Hammond's father is not too fond of the connection either...
A Time to Love and a Time to Die
A German soldier home on leave falls in love with a girl, then returns to World War II.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
For the corpulent nobleman Sir John Falstaff, the inn in the small English town of Windsor is the best of all places. Here he can indulge in excessive dining and intemperate drinking, as well as swagger and boast about his adventures, particularly those of an amorous nature. At present, he has designs on the two young women, Mistress Reich and Fluth, who, in turn, lead the paunchy protagonist mightily by the nose.
The Indian Scarf
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.
The Strange Countess
Strange fortune hunters are behind a girl's murder in this Edgar Wallace tale.
The Horror of Blackwood Castle
Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.
The Mad Executioners
A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a rope stolen from Scotland Yard's Black Museum.
The Return of Dr. Mabuse
The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".
Heart of Stone
Lavish adaptation of Wilhelm Hauff′s fairy tale: Young charburner Peter Munk dreams of joining the upper class. He makes a deal with the sinister Holländer-Michel, who offers to trade Peter′s human heart for one made of stone. Once he has the "cold heart" in his body, Peter eventually strikes a fortune and enjoys great wealth, but at the same time, he becomes a bitter and emotionless man – and, having lost all traces of humanity, even murders his wife Lisbeth. Only then does Peter Munk finally realize what has become of him, and he decides to regain his real heart from Holländer-Michel.
The Final Chord
After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor.
Filmography
as Albert Carimbuli
as Doc Adams
as Reverend Hastings
as The Ghost
as Patient
as Prof. Griesinger
as Mad Air Raid Warden
as König von Irgendwo
as Seifert
as La Regnie
as Lisbeths Oheim
as Herr von Tschirnhausen
as Gomez
as Mr. Smith