Iván Petrovich
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Iván Petrovich (1 January 1894 – 18 October 1962), born Svetislav Petrović, was a Serbian film actor and singer. He was the first actor from Yugoslavia to have a successful international movie career. Petrovich mainly worked in German cinema, but also collaborated with established directors in some 100 Hungarian, French, Spanish, Czechoslovakian and Hollywood movies.
Born: January 1, 1894
Place of Birth: Újvidék, Austria-Hungary [now Novi Sad, Serbia]
Known For
Once I Will Return
A millionaire returns from the United States to his native Dubrovnik.
Einmal der liebe Herrgott sein
Elevator to the Gallows
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Eroica
Biopic about Ludwig van Beethoven.
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.
Wer zuletzt küßt...
On the occasion of a charity ball in Vienna a kiss of a famous actress should be auctioned. Misunderstandings between the manager of the film star, a record producer and a student lead too all kinds of mistakes, during which a student is mistaken for a prince in disguise and almost breaks his hapiness. - Quickly and expertly produced mistake comedy with a lot of singing desposits and an at than popular comedian line-up, which offers amusing surface entertainment.
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.
The Journey
A Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
A Daughter Of Destiny
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
The Magician
A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.
Filmography
as Szabó Bácsi
as Horst Bencker
as Michael Markoff
as Mr. Pepperkorn
as Ruge
as Gregory
as Baumann, Offizier
as Sigmund Neffs
as Direktor Wallberg
as Andreas Ostenhof
as Fürst Lichnowsky
as Barna
as Staatsanwalt Egressy
as Szávody György
as Professor Freiburg
as Jan
as Ricardo Perez
as Arno Molander
as Fernando Alvarez
as Stefan Laurin
as Hans Martenrood
as Baron Gaffris
as Count Feodor Ivanowitsch Schuwalow
as Furlani
as Gregor Ogolenski
as Prinz Carlo Alba
as Rittmeister Otto von Wellisch
as Oberleutnant Graf Dimitrij Sarrasow
as Graf Bolko Baransky
as Paganini
as Edgar Radek
as Kapitän Harald Stone
as George Manolescu
as Doroschinsky
as Rittmeister von Jennewein
as Stephan Berregi
as Stefan Koltay, Husaren-Rittmeister
as Dr. Peter v. Bodo
as Fritz von Hornthal
as Baron von Trenck
as Georg Moeller
as Der Zarewitsch
as Philip Burlington
as Prince Achmed
as Dr. Schäfer
as Franz Braun
as Alexander, Pilot
as Father Adrien
as Pierre Bernier
as Dr. Arthur Burdon
as Herbert Campbell, the Poet
as Lieutenant de Hagen