Ernst Legal
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 2, 1881
Place of Birth: Schlieben, Germany
Known For
The Leghorn Hat
Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.
The Mountain Calls
The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But due to an intrigue this agreement is dropped and the two man try it on the same day with two different teams and then disaster strikes.
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Die Umwege des schönen Karl
Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants to have enough money himself.
Romance in a Minor Key
A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption.
To New Shores
A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks.
Immensee
A man and a woman struggle to stifle their love for each other, even after he moves away to travel the world and she marries a suitor.
The Kaiser's Lackey
Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life motto now runs: bow to those at the top and tread on those below. In this way, he always succeeds: as a student in a duel-fighting student fraternity and as a businessman in a paper factory. He cajoles the obese district administrative president Von Wulkow and wins his favor. He slanders his financial rivals and hatches a plot with the social democrats in the town council. On his honeymoon with his rich wife Guste, he finally finds a chance to do his beloved Kaiser a favor. And when a memorial to the Kaiser is unveiled in the town where Diederich lives and works, he delivers the address. He stands behind the lectern in the pouring rain, saluting his Kaiser. The crowd is dispersed. Everything is laid in ruins...
Waxworks
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
Filmography
as Goriot
as Zillich
as Antonio
as Professer Kortlein
as Herr Wittkuhn
as Dienstmann
as Sergeant
as Wirt in Sevilla
as Der alte Albert - Kellner
as Amtsrichter
as Möbelpacker
as Stout
as Mr. Strawman
as Dieter Jean
as Trödler
as Professor Cravallo
as Emil Müller
as Schießbudenmann/Alter/Kesselflicker
as Josef Boelke
as Mayor Kilmank
as Schladebach, Bäckermeister
as Kraatz
as Nelson
as Vorhangzieher des Stadttheaters
as Poison-Maker of the Czar
as Fouché