Hanni Weisse
Acting
Biography
Hanni Weisse was a German stage and film actress. Her career began as a celloist and appeared in small roles at the Berlin Thalia Theater in 1910. The film director Max Mack discovered her and Weisse made her film debut in "Whims of Fate" in 1911.
Born: October 16, 1892
Place of Birth: Chemnitz, Germany
Known For
The Film in the Film
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
The Beggar from Cologne Cathedral
An international gang of thieves and swindlers decide to move their criminal operation to the Teutonic city of Cologne, but Tom Wilkens, one of the best agents of the international police, is not far behind and leads an investigation to unmask the criminals.
The Island of the Lost
A loose, unauthorized adaptation of the 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells. Somewhat illogical, the film has more emphasis on comedy and romance than horror, but offers "memorable glimpses of human-animal hybrids".
Der Andere
A man has an accident while out riding his horse and soon discovers that he now has a split personality, and that his alternate is helping a criminal to rob his house.
What's Going on in Beely Circus?
Harry Piel plays Harry Peel who receives an urgent telephone call from a friend who has returned from South America recently. The call is being made from the circus "Beely" and our hero arrives there too late to prevent the murder of his friend. Now Harry must find his friend's killer and go on a strange mission involving a hidden document.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons, masquerading himself as Holmes. Hidden passages, hand bombs and mechanical devices abound, reminding more of a serial than of a Conan Doyle story.
Der Evangelimann
Mathias, the evangelist, is in love with Martha. Johannes, Mathias brother tries to interfere. When Mathias and Martha are swearing fidelity, Johannes jealousy turns into blind hate and he sets the monastery on fire. But it is Mathias that is arrested for the crime.
Die tolle Komteß
Lache, Bajazzo!
Der Hund von Baskerville - 5 Teil: Dr. Macdonalds Sanatorium
German horror mystery movie from 1920.
Filmography
as Wilhelmine Balster
as Mary Mortensen
as Frieda
as Fräulein Pichalec
as Madame Madeleine Tréville
as Anita de Moran
as Erika
as Amelie
as Self
as Mother/Daughter Martha
as Jane Crawford
as Frau Baskerville
as Mother
as Laura Lyons
as Amalie