Sig Arno
Acting
Biography
Sig Arno was an actor and director.
Born: December 27, 1895
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Known For
The Great Dictator
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Gado Bravo
A love triangle set in Lisbon between German singer Nina, bullfighter Garrido and local girl Branca.
This Thing Called Love
Two professional people marry, but the wife insists that they be celibate for the first three months to make sure they are truly compatible.
Pandora's Box
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Diary of a Lost Girl
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
The Love of Jeanne Ney
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
Hellzapoppin'
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
His Butler's Sister
Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.
Fairground People
Young Anny returns from school to her circus family, which runs a little venue at the town fair. When Anny suddenly has to fill in for one of the artists, her piano-playing not only enthrals the audience, but also theatre agent Horbes. He casts the whole family for the Apollo theatre in Berlin, where Anny quickly raises to stardom and is offered an engagement from the US.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage, as 'The Inspector')
as Mr. Sahutsky
as Hungry Istvan Kulhanek
as Mayor
as Monsieur Le Blanche
as Georges (uncredited)
as Attendant
as Pepe
as Poppa Diaduska
as Joseph
as Henri Dupont (uncredited)
as Waiter
as Waiter
as Moreno
as Zybisco
as Mr. Whistler
as Nick (uncredited)
as Henri
as Ivan Bloosnikoff
as The Beggar (archive footage / uncredited)
as Julius
as Toto
as Marco the Magician (uncredited)
as Piccolo Player
as Maitre D'
as Professor
as Orchestra Bass Player (uncredited)
as Emile, Voice Coach
as Felipe Rudolfo MacIntyre
as Maestro Frascini
as Prof. Bedoin
as Suliman
as Louis
as Arno
as Khattab
as Compact Parachute Inventor (uncredited)
as Francois
as Baron Gilbert La Rocque
as The Beggar-Henchman
as Tailor
as Schmidt - in Shipboard Brawl
as Jackson
as Max Stieglitz
as Sigmund Meyer
as Ignaz Fischbein
as Hans Dampf
as Moustache - ein Apache
as Hypnotiseur
as Felipe
as Moritz
as Ferdi Klebinder
as Hannes
as Detective Puzzle
as Emilio Edler von Meikovici
as Ferdinand
as Kiebitz
as Onkel Axmann
as Brothel Visitor
as The Stage Manager
as Paul
as Der Hehler / The Receiver
as Gaston
as Jim
as Sigi
as Arnolescu
as Paulo
as Atto
as Prellstein
as Chevallier
as Gaston
as Salomon
as Mauropolus
as Sandy
as Lescaut
as Onkel Eli