Henny Porten
Acting
Biography
Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten (7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent era, and Germany's first major film star. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1906 and 1955.
Born: January 7, 1890
Place of Birth: Magdeburg, Germany
Known For
The Giant's Fist
A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in Monte Carlo Mrs. Vanroh keeps apart from society, until one evening she decides to visit the casino. There a young man attracts her curiosity and compassion.
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.
Anna Boleyn
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
The Ancient Law
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.
Backstairs
In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and handsome young man, who soon disappears. The mailman provides the maid with letters that get her hopes up... but tragedy will soon befall all three.
Kohlhiesel's Daughters
Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she is too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel...
The Comedians
Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German melodrama starring Kathe Dorsch and silent screen legend Henny Porten. When Philine (Hilde Krahl), the troupe's ingénue, is rejected as proper marital material by the Duchess of Weissenfels (Porten), Karoline Neuber (Dorsch) creates such a furor that she is banished from the country. A performance at the court at St. Petersburg also ends in disaster for the unhappy actress and abandoned by all, Karoline dies a suicide.
The Buchholz Family
Based on an 1884 novel by Julius Stinde, it is a family chronicle set in late nineteenth century Berlin.
The Jew of Mestri
The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a free adaptation of "Merchant of Venice" written by Herr William Shakespeare. It is an elegant and expensive German film production that was shot on location in beautiful and decadent Venice with some of the most important Teutonic actors of the time: Henny Porten, Harry Liedtke und Werner Krauss and even the mysterious Max Schreck.
Filmography
as Fräulein von Scuderi
as Carola Lamberti
as Wilhelmine Buchholz
as Wilhelmine Buchholz
as Elisa Arvik
as Maria, seine Frau
as Herzogin Amalia von Weißenfels
as Frau Seiderhelm
as Anna
as Königin Luise
as Helga Vanroh
as Liesel & Gretel, Kohlhiesels Töchter
as Eva Rüttgers
as Maria Immermann
as Klara
as Marischka
as Hanne Lorek
as Lotte
as Violantha Zureich
as Helene
as Cäcilie
as Magdalena
as Hilde von Niemeyer
as Annemarie
as Lene
as Self
as Maria
as Erzherzogin Elisabeth Theresia
as Porzia (Beatrice)
as Die Königin
as The Maid
as Wally
as Anna Boleyn, his Niece
as Marianne
as Liesel und Gretel Kohlhiesel
as Monica Vogelsang
as Wanda Lossen
as Maria Helga Nansen
as Adelina von Gentz
as Die Probiermamsell
as Karoline Blume / Gräfin Gyllenhand
as Martina von Brake
as Ethel Vandergold (daughter)
as Königin von Illyrien
as Mädchen
as Anna von Glassner
as Karla
as Juliane Crusius