Max Landa
Acting
Biography
Max Landa, born Max Landau, was a Russian-born Austrian silent film and stage actor. After working at various theatres in Austria and Germany for about twenty years he was discovered in Berlin as leading man by movie star Asta Nielsen.
Born: April 24, 1873
Place of Birth: Minsk, Russian Empire [now Belarus]
Known For
Little Angel
Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle from Chicago. Her unruly “play-acting” for the uncle is preceded by an earlier incident in the film that results in Jesta being evicted from her girl’s school. Wearing a long, woman’s skirt, she climbs up a ladder and onto a thatched roof. She reaches over the top of the wall to kiss her boyfriend, who appears from the other side. However, Jesta is caught by the headmistress, and her forced descent is precipitous. Pulled downward, she reveals a great deal of a black-stockinged leg. She looks distinctly sexual as she falls into the matrimonly arms of the law, whose duty is to enforce the rules of female decorum.
The Secret of the American Docks
James Mistoll, one of the owners of a factory, and working on a process to turn copper ore into radium, falls from a window on the fourth floor and dies; This was no accident, but a murder. A detective sends his assistant, Barnes, to investigate and soon the number of suspects from within the company multiplies.
Flight Around the World
A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Brest.
The Suffragette
Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.
Nebel und Sonne
The Japanese Woman
A detective falls for a Japanese girl living with her uncle and cousin. When the girl's uncle is murdered, the detective must find out who killed him.
Marriage Announcement
Anastasia, die falsche Zarentochter
Anastasia's supposed escape and possible survival was one of the most popular historical mysteries of the 20th century, provoking many books and films. At least ten women claimed to be her, offering varying stories as to how she had survived. Anna Anderson, was maybe the best known Anastasia impostor.
William Voss
William Voss is a 1915 silent film written and directed by Rudolf Meinert.
Little Angel's Wedding
A sequel to 1914's Engelein, recounting the wedding of the titular protagonist. This film is considered lost.
Filmography
as Graf Glybin
as Detektiv
as Detective Landa
as Max, Detective
as von Harten
as Lord Kenley / Henry von Muiden
as Frank Norbert
as Joe Deebs
as Joe Deebs
as Joe Deebs
as Peter J. Schneider
as Lord William Ascue