Hermann Thimig
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Hermann Thimig.
Born: October 3, 1890
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Known For
The Wildcat
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
My Leopold
The Doll
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the dollmaker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
The 3 Penny Opera
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising 'king of the beggars'.
Die Familie ohne Moral
Prämien auf den Tod
In order to impress a socially superior woman with money, an unsuccessful insurance agent commits sophisticated fraud: he concludes contracts with fictitious people and collects the insurance sums after their "death". However, his first fictional persona is his downfall.
Victor and Victoria
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick friend, a small-time female impersonator, and finds unexpected fame when everyone believes that she is actually a man. While touring London, complications arise as a local womanizer catches on to her game.
The Threepenny Opera
The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.
The Trial
In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to fight against it.
Heaven on Earth
A poor composer who should buy a property for his ambitious father-in-law finances with the money, nevertheless, an opera. Together with his friend who must play a husband to his strict rich aunt, he makes to himself a fun from the mistakes which cause her feints.
Filmography
as Truffaldino (archive footage)
as Rosenstrock
as Padre Filippo
as Schneider-Naz
as Haslinger, Verleger
as Pappacoda
as Direktor Wilibald Müller
as Mr. Peabody
as Hafensinspektor Muschel
as Heinemann, Laboratoriumsdiener
as Ferdinand
as Dorfrichter Farkas
as Kaufmann Enderle
as Krautkopf
as Lorenz Findeisen
as Leopold, Oberkellner
as Mario d'Almeida
as Joachim von Trautenegg & Leopold von Trautenegg, sein Neffe
as Paul Heller
as Fred Reigersheim, sein Sekretär
as Leo Heiderich Jr
as Henry Roland, Revuestar
as Dr. Werner, Rechtsanwalt
as Viktor Hempel
as Robert Fink
as Hans Pinneberg
as Kurt Bach - Kunstmaler
as Heinz
as Robert
as Hans Meier
as He
as Leroy
as Hans Felix
as Robert Goll
as Gerd Brenken
as Paul Baumann
as Mehlmeyer
as Dr. Fritz Barke
as Walter Heller
as Bob Wilsdorf
as The Vicar
as Bankdirektor Arvai
as Hans Wengl
as Baron Steiß-Steßling
as Fred Rupp
as Adolphe
as Pepo
as Klaus
as Lancelot, the Baron’s Nephew
as Rudi Walters
as Dr. Theodor Lindemann