Siegfried Schürenberg
Acting
Biography
Siegfried Schürenberg was a German actor and voice actor. He was particularly well known for his role as Sir John in the Edgar Wallace films.
Born: January 12, 1900
Place of Birth: Detmold, Germany
Known For
Gentlemen in White Vests
Bruno Stiegler, a boxing promoter with a disreputable past, returns from America to Berlin to make some big things again with his friends. Fatally, he is always preceded by some gentlemen from better circles who are developing amazing criminal activity in their old days. They are led by Oberlandesgerichtsrat a. D. Herbert Zänker, whom it still hisses, that he could bring in his term Bruno never behind bars.
Vergiß mein nicht
Tenor Enzo Curti, a widower with a young child, falls in love with a secretary from New York. Liselotte has experienced disappointment in her first love, Helmut, an ocean liner officer. She marries Enzo Curti, but later, when she meets Helmut again, she experiences emotional stress as love struggles with a sense of duty in her heart.
The Bridge
A group of German boys are ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defeated, cynical Wehrmacht soldiers flee the approaching American troops, but the boys, full of enthusiasm for the "blood and honor" Nazi ideology, stay to defend the useless bridge. The film is based on a West German anti-war novel of the same name, written by Gregor Dorfmeister.
The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps.
Old Heidelberg
The Higher Command
A Prussian commander disobeys orders and goes to find a British envoy who can negotiate a pact with Austria to help fight off Napoleon in 1806.
The Mysterious Magician
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if "The Hexer" may get away yet again.
The Inn on the River
A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.
The Sinister Monk
A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.
The Indian Scarf
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.
Filmography
as Onkel Walter Habinger
as Dr. Bladmore
as Bankpräsident Alberto Rupprecht
as Gottwald Baumgartner
as Sir John
as Sir Philip
as General Pusch
as Minister
as Generaldirektor
as Kommissar Berg
as Werner Zibell
as Chefredakteur Berg
as Sir John
as Sir John
as Sir John
as Another Banker (segment "La belle époque")
as Sir John
as Sir John
as Sir John
as Sir John
as Cmdr. Adams (voice)
as Sir John
as Sir John
as Sir John
as Sir Henry Hockbridge
as Sir Fielding
as Sir John
as Sir John
as Major Staines
as Dr. Elken
as Staatsminister Haugk
as Lieutenant Colonel
as Dr. Behrend
as Johannes Claudius
as Herr von Schmitz
as Von Rachlitz
as Dr. Wieler
as Direktor Krailing
as Holland
as Polizeiinspektor
as Wiedemann
as Harris
as Staatsanwalt
as Rektor
as Herterich
as Amerikanischer Anwalt
as Vorsitzender am Gericht
as Mr. Widmeier
as Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm
as Jensen
as 1. Offizier
as James
as Dr. Marlow, Werkslaborant
as Rittmeister Moraleda
as Kapitän Gilbert
as Gangsterboß Lapin
as Hauptmann Angermann
as Neumann
as Herr von Tremoliere
as Narrator (voice)
as Lord Beckhurst
as Hellmut von Ahrens
as Sawinkow
as Werner Baumann
as brit. Ingenieur Corner
as Rundfunkreporter