Henry Victor
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Henry Victor (2 October 1892 – 15 March 1945) was an English-born character actor. Raised in Germany, Victor is probably best remembered for his portrayal of the strongman Hercules in Tod Browning's 1932 film Freaks. He originally was a leading figure in UK silent films. Later in his career, he mostly portrayed villains or Nazis in both American and British films with his trademark German accent. He died at 52 of a brain tumor. He is buried in Chatsworth, California's at the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Henry Victor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: October 2, 1892
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Known For
To Be or Not to Be
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
Freaks
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Escape
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
The Mortal Storm
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil.
The White Shadow
The White Shadow is a British drama film directed by Graham Cutts based on the novel "Children of Chance" by Michael Morton. Alfred Hitchcock worked on it as assistant director and also handled the writing, editing, and art direction. The film was long thought to be lost. In August 2011, it was announced that the first three reels of the six-reel picture had been found in a garden shed and donated to the NFPF. The film cans were mislabled Two Sisters and Unidentified American Film and only later identified. The film was restored by Park Road Studios and is now in the New Zealand Film Archive. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with National Film Preservation Foundation in 2012.
L'Argent
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
The Guns of Loos
Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
A Royal Scandal
Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.
The Mummy
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
Spring Parade
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
Filmography
as Brunzman (uncredited)
as Russian General (uncredited)
as German Office (Uncredited)
as Herr Schufeldt - Hamburg Official (uncredited)
as Heilrich
as Professor Frederic Hoffner (uncredited)
as Johann Schrode
as German Storm Trooper (uncredited)
as Heinrich Schwarzmueller
as Col. Bosch
as Capt. Schultz
as Rudolf Hagerman
as U-Boat Captain Horst (uncredited)
as Gestapo Agent
as Dr. Miklos Sangre
as Furber (Uncredited)
as Faber
as Gestapo Officer with Hooked Nose (uncredited)
as Cmdr. Bulow
as Dutch Police Officer (uncredited)
as Dutch Officer
as Gestapo Official Confiscating Book on Train
as Mate Simpson
as Hammil - tall spy boss
as Col. Schlager
as Foreign Official
as German U-Boat Officer
as Jaubec
as Sultanov (uncredited)
as Wildebrandt
as Lt. d'Enriquo
as Bulldog Kelly
as Major
as Olaf
as KPO
as Floyd
as Baron von Luden
as The Saxon Warrior (scenes deleted)
as Hercules
as Otto Lilienthal
as Captain Von Schlettow
as Baron Ernst von Steuben (U-boat commander)
as Almady, the Officer
as Henry
as Count Boris Ivanoff
as Mr. Sabine
as Jacques Hamelin
as Victor
as John Grimlaw
as Lt. Clive Stanton
as Augustine St. Claire
as Gordon Graham
as Thibault d'Aussigny
as Jack McDermott
as Sam Harris
as Wilfrid Desert
as Louis Chadwick
as Grey Meredith
as Gerald
as John Henriot
as Seward Pendyne