Bert Sprotte
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia Bert Sprotte (9 December 1870 – 30 December 1949) was a German actor. He appeared in 77 films between 1918 and 1938. He was born in Chemnitz, Saxony and died in Los Angeles, California.
Born: December 9, 1870
Place of Birth: Chemnitz, Germany
Known For
Confessions of a Queen
The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship. Turmoil increases as a revolution demands the abdication of the King and the Queen opposes this decision.
Manhattan Melodrama
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Rosita
The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to be executed, the King lusts after Rosita and decides to put her up in a luxurious villa. To give her a title, he marries her to a masked nobleman, who turns out to be Don Diego.
Pass the Gravy
Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men. When their children announce their engagement the two men decide to bury the hatchet and Davidson suggests a dinner at his house. He gives his young son, Ignatz, two dollars to buy a chicken but the boy pockets the money and kills Schultz' first place rooster instead. Once seated at the table all but Schultz discover what they are eating and desperately try to hide the bad news from Schultz who is sure to kill Davidson if he knows the truth.
The Ropin' Fool
"Ropes" Reilly shows off his impressive roping skills, then runs afoul of the local townsfolk.
Soul of the Beast
This northwoods comedy-drama, by way of a circus drama, was directed by John Griffith Wray for Thomas H. Ince, and stars Madge Bellamy.
Shark Monroe
In this 1918 film, newly restored by MoMA, Hart is a ship's captain in the Pacific Northwest who abandons his post to pursue a woman who does not love him (MacDonald) across the Klondike, eventually rescuing her from the grip of a white slaver.
Little Robinson Crusoe
Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with relatives, but he is shipwrecked and stranded on an island inhabited by cannibals who worship him as a war god.
Dracula's Daughter
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
Wagon Tracks
Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.
Filmography
as German
as Wedding Guest (uncredited)
as Beer Truck Driver
as German Note Holder (uncredited)
as Sergeant Major
as Emil Kranzmeyer
as Hotel Proprietor
as Magistrate
as Schultz
as Achilles
as Marshal
as Sergeant
as James Monroe
as Olaf Hansen
as Chet Marlow
as Revolutionary Leader
as Ivan
as Adolphe Schmidt
as Dan Gleason
as Bob Wright
as Big Jailer
as Sam Brodford
as Red Carson
as Silas Hamm
as Jean McLaire (prologue)
as Duroc
as Courant
as Tobias Stafford
as Cossack
as Olaf Guildmar
as The Sheriff
as Rowell Clark
as Hal Dozier
as Juan von Rolf
as Charles Burkthaler
as John Woodbury
as Buck Elliot
as Mac Strann
as Sheriff
as Hank Millicuddy
as Sheriff
as Eliphalet Moss
as Skole
as Sheriff Red Agnew
as Jim Sykes
as Buffum
as La Blanc
as Nicolai Poppoff
as Brick Muldoon
as Wesley B. Prentice
as Von Helm (as Berthold Sprotte)
as German Sergeant
as Onion McNab
as Rocking Chair Riley