Hermann Pfeiffer
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Hermann Pfeiffer.
Born: May 6, 1902
Place of Birth: Wuppertal, Germany
Known For
Napoleon Is to Blame for Everything
English Lord Arthur Cavershoot is a passionate Napoleon scholar who badly neglects his wife Josephine for his obsession with the French emperor. When the cranky historian travels to a Napoleon conference in Paris, his smart spouse secretly follows him. Unnoticed by her, the city of love threatens to spark a romance between Arthur and a chorus girl.
A Night in May
A reckless young woman has her driving license withdrawn, drives home anyway and gets involved in a traffic accident. Realizing this was a little over the top she decides that she has to flee the country. As fate has it, she misses her train and instead meets a handsom young man who imidiately falls in love with her. This marks the beginning of a long night of misunderstandings, chases and courting.
Homeland
In 1885, famous New York Metropolitan Opera singer Maddalena dall' Orto is scheduled to perform at a festival in the German residence of Ilmingen. It soon becomes obvious that she is non other than Magda von Schwartze, who left the town eight years ago against her father's wishes to become a singer.
The Yellow Flag
An adventurer, Peter Diercksen, travels to South America to guide an expedition into the jungle. However, when the ship is quarantined he believes he has a serious disease. He does not accompany the trip, which runs into major problems.
The Great Love
The attractive Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt is stationed in North Africa as a fighter pilot. While in Berlin to deliver a report he is given a day's leave, and on the stage of the cabaret theatre "Skala" sees the popular Danish singer Hanna Holberg. For Paul it is love at first sight. When Hanna visits friends after the end of the performance, he follows her, and speaks to her in the U-Bahn. After the party in her friends' flat, he accompanies her home and chance throws them further together when an air raid warning forces them to take cover in the air raid shelter. Hanna reciprocates Paul's feelings, but after a night spent together Paul has to return immediately to the front. There now follows a whole series of misunderstandings, and one missed opportunity after another. While Hanna waits in vain for some sign of life from Paul, he is flying on missions in North Africa. When he tries to visit her in her Berlin flat, she is giving a Christmas concert in Paris.
Damals
Vera Meiners' life was sweet but unfortunately for her, it was not to last. Her husband, Jan, left her after she met a former lover in a harmless friendly meeting. Forced to resume her disrupted medical career, she worked in a Swiss clinic but, without the knowledge of the chief surgeon, Vera ordered a risky operation to be performed and was thereafter fired. Penniless, she then works in Spanish nightclubs in order to provide for herself and her child. After many years, she runs into her friend Frank again in one of these nightclubs...
The Stars Shine
German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
Diesel
Kommen Sie am Ersten
The Final Chord
After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor.
Filmography
as Mathematikprofessor
as Direktor Rabitz
as Manfred Schmidt
as Kahle
as Rundfunkreporter
as Herr Kolbe
as Kurt
as Dr. Schmidt
as Direktor Wappler
as Dr. Wolter, Burgmüllers Verleger
as Geschäftsführer
as Direktor Waldemar
as Nachtportier im Hotel 'Delfino' (uncredited)
as Reiseleiter
as Herr Konsul
as Herr Sprüngli
as Gerichtsvollzieher Schleebusch
as Kühn
as Viehhändler Schweighofer
as Reporter
as 1. Reporter
as Sörensen
as Sakuri
as Paillot
as Böhmer
as Yvonns Theateragent
as Lohmann
as Gerhard Schlünkes
as Revue-Napoleon
as Mons. Duval
as Zeitungsleser
as Mitglied des Empfangskomitees
as Inspektor Green
as Onkel Jim
as Produktionsleiter
as Kugler
as Mühsam
as Arbeiter
as Spielkasinodirektor
as Regisseur
as Jean
as Oberkommissar