Paul Biensfeldt
Acting
Biography
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Born: March 4, 1869
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Known For
The Spanish Fly
As a young man, mustard manufacturer Ludwig Klinke had an affair with a dancer, the “Spanish Fly”. The dancer had a son and Klinke has been secretly paying maintenance ever since. Wimmer and Tiedemeier also had a relationship with the dancer. With the appearance of the dancer's supposed son, Heinrich Meisel, chaos breaks out.
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
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.
Destiny
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.
Anna Boleyn
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
The Loves of Pharaoh
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
Waxworks
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
The Merry Jail
A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
Madame DuBarry
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Cab No. 13
The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
Filmography
as Hermann Kron
as Diener Ferdinand
as Onkel Tiedemeier
as Nepomuk
as Klubdiener
as Inspektor Bachmann
as Kaiser Ferdinand I.
as Kommissar in Berlin
as Diener
as Jacques Carotin
as Werner Rix
as Grand Vizier
as Kammerdiener Pitt
as Pförtner
as Man who gets the gun (uncredited)
as Menon
as A Hi (uncredited)
as Dafko
as Alfred's father
as Jester
as Der Sklavenhändler
as Smith
as Dorfrichter
as Daimyo Tokuyawa
as Simon
as Jeremias Kraker
as Lebel
as Flenz
as Dramaturg der Firma
as Garcia, Smuggler
as Landesfürst
as The king
as Gesandter von Südland
as Arlecchino
as Paul