Karl Skraup
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Karl Skraup.
Born: July 31, 1898
Place of Birth: Wien, Austria
Known For
Burg Theatre
In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her and then announces that he will retire. The young woman pretends she loves him too, but her real motive is to give her struggling lover, also an aspiring actor, a break.
Krambambuli
A hunter buys a fine hunting dog from a drunkard for twelve bottles of "Krambambuli" schnapps and forcibly impresses upon the animal that from now on it must obey only him. When he catches the dog's former owner poaching, the dog runs irritably back and forth between the two men until it decides in favor of the gamekeeper - who is shot by the hunter the next moment.
The World Turns Backward
Franz Xaver Silvester Pomeisl travels thru the decades looking for the good old times.
Lumpacivagabundus
The fairies Fortuna and Amorosa make a bet with the devil, in the form of the evil spirit Lumpacivagabundus. They don't believe he will succeed in winning humanity over. To prove his skills, they choose three journeymen: the shoemaker Knierim, the tailor Zwirn, and the carpenter Leim. If Lumpacivagabundus succeeds in leading even one of the three journeymen astray, he will have won his bet. The devil manipulates a lottery in which the three journeymen win a fortune...
13 Chairs
A classical art junk dealer and an almost bankrupt hairdresser who unexpectedly makes an inheritance go hunting behind thirteen chairs from which of a 100,000 DM contains which the rich aunt has hidden there.
Suburban Cabaret
In Vienna of 1913 a young woman coming from vaudeville theatre circles stands before the wedding with a construction draftsman; this must move to the military and sends his bride on the country, so that she cannot be enticed to the stage. However, she does it and gets by an officer's love affair so in confusion that she commits suicide. - This end environment-close and differentiates of produced melodrama was rejected by press and audience vehemently; the new second film end with the rescue of the desperate was supplied later, so that in this version only a bittersweet common melodrama with excellent actors and good photograph was left. In the rental company copy is the second version of the end jointly contain.
Frühling auf dem Eis
A group of talented young people are dismissed from an ice dancing troupe as a result of the intrigues of Alida, the wife of impresario Gordon. Outraged, the young people leave Gordon's troupe and, having organized their own group, soon achieve success with audiences. Gordon, deprived of his talented performers, suffers a collapse and goes bankrupt.
Die keusche Sünderin
Xaver Bimshofer is the richest peasant in the village; and therefore, his only daughter Lenerl should marry a guy, who is diligent enough to keep the exemplary farm running. But Bimshofer doesn’t know, that Lenerl has long been a couple with the servant Sepp. So he suspects that every young man in the village wants to conquer his poor, innocent daughter. So that Lenerl really resists all these attempts, he gets a stone statue from Thomas Kammerlehner’s barn, “The Chaste Kunigunde”, which is supposed to protect the girl’s chastity and to protect her from sin by its positive energy.
Der Klosterjäger
The huntsman of a Bavarian monastery falls in love with a beautiful girl and convinces the provost to make his steward delay her brother's feudal due arrears.
The Charm of La Bohème
René and his two artist friends lead a meager but careless life in a Parisian small apartment, their main worry being to avoid the housekeeper. Whenever they get some money they call more friends in and celebrate. This is how he meets beautiful but fragile Denise, who wants to be a singer as himself, and they fall in love. Yet when she finds out her real condition she takes a drastic decision which will determine their fates. La Bohème arias, and more.
Filmography
as Pharmacist Josef
as Melchior von Trutzberg
as Sanitätsrat
as Bindinger - Gerichtsvollzieher
as Cefalu
as Polizeibeamter Radic
as Valentin
as Hermann Linsmeyer
as Bürgermeister
as Vogt
as Der König von Vineta
as Jakob
as Gottlieb Hinterstoisser
as Posamenter
as Vinzenz Haunstetter
as Attila Meisel
as Anwalt
as Hartl
as Herr Welischer
as Waßmann
as Hauptwachtmeister
as Prof. Minze
as Prof. Wladicka
as Fabian Zirbel
as Amon - Konzertmeister
as Möbelladenbesitzer
as Ebeseder, 'Schusterdoktor'
as Anton, Butler
as Requisiteur Lohrmann
as Biscot
as Schneidermeister Schindler
as Hausierer
as Heizinger, Lenis musikalischer Begleiter
as Klavierspieler
as Wärter