Reinhold Schünzel
Acting
Biography
Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite his ancestry, Schünzel was allowed by the Nazis to continue making films for several years until he left in 1937 to live abroad.
Born: November 7, 1888
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Known For
Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating examples of "Film history on film" ever produced. Straschek devoted years to researching the topic and accumulating both film and non-film materials. Apart from some radio features and articles, however, this 290-minute TV programme remains the only published trace of Straschek's lifelong work on the emigration of film personnel. He had intended to publish a three-volume book, encompassing all available data about 3,000 emigrants originating from the centre and peripheries of film production, but the book never materialised.
Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline
Notorious
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
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'.
Different from the Others
Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the law that punishes homosexuality).
Hangmen Also Die!
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
Dragonwyck
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
First Comes Courage
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him -- an assassin who happens to be her former lover.
Hallo Caesar!
Juggler and con-artist Caesar comes to Karlsbad, where he hopes to trick the renowned Vaudeville manager Willard into taking him to America. But when he actually meets Willard, Caesar mistakes him for a certain Mr. Lehmann. Willard / Lehmann is not amused, since Caesar constantly courts his daughter Eva. While fooling around, Caesar doesn’t notice that young Rosl, the daughter of innkeeper Mrs. Svoboda, has fallen in love with him. Finally, the romantic and comical confusion is resolved during a hotel fire.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Konsul Rittinghaus
as Konsul Rittinghaus
as Baron Arady
as Walther
as Otto Krosigk
as Dr. Anderson
as Count De Grenier (uncredited)
as Dr. Kurt van Bruecken
as Gen. Ludendorff
as Kurt Daluege
as Col. Kurt von Elser
as Gestapo Insp. Ritter
as Staatsminister Graf Herlitz
as Tiger-Brown
as Nikolaus II.
as Traugott Bellmann
as Caesar
as Der Juxbaron
as Peter Abendrot
as Louis Renard
as Max
as Schieber
as Ferdinand IV, König von Neapel
as Alessandro Cagliostro
as Freiherr von Mohrungen
as Anton Wicleff
as The secretary
as Der Teufel / Various Other Roles
as Duke of Choiseul
as Adolf Reiss
as Jules Lambert
as Franz Bollek
as Archibald Corsican
as Kallenbach
as Graf Kasimir Osdorff
as Reinhold
as schüchterner Verehrer
as Superintendent Anheim
as Kriminalrat Rat Anheim