Harry Piel

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Harry Piel, born Heinrich Piel, was a prolific German actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer who was involved in over 150 films. In Berlin 1912 he created the Art Film Publishing House Company and made, as a director, screenwriter and producer, his first feature "Black Blood" (1912) with Curt Goetz in the lead role. Further films followed, based on adventure and action.

12-07-1892

Birthday

Cancer

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Total Films

هاري بيل (ممثل), Гарри Пиль

Also known as (male)

Benrath, Germany

Place of Birth

12-07-1892

Birthday

Cancer

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Harry Peel

Also Known As (male)

Benrath, Germany

Place of Birth

Popular works

Media

Creative career

actor

50 Works

producer

3 Works

director

104 Works

writer

33 Works

other

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Elephant Fury

German big game hunter brings elephants back from Africa safely through enemy lines, but they go on a stampede in Berlin. Filming began during WWII in Germany, but production was stopped because story showed Third Reich police and military having problems coping with an elephant stampede; after the War, it got completed by its originator, and exported to the US with English dubbed, while removing all references to its 1940s German origins!

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1953

Tiger's Claw

Jonny Wilken is an ageing lion trainer in a circus. He is in love with his younger colleague Jutta Sarris. On her wedding day, Jutta's favorite Bengal tiger attacks her out of jealousy and kills her. Jonny, full of pain and out of revenge, enters the cage to kill the animal with his bare hands. However, the tiger bows to him without any resistance.

6.0

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1951

Der Mann im Sattel

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1945

Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen

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1938

The impossible Mr. Pitt

0.5

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1938

His Best Friend

Remake of a 1929 German film by the same title about a man and a police dog.

6.0

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1937

90 Minuten Aufenthalt

6.0

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1936

Der Dschungel ruft

Rich American Dina Morris and her New York friends sail through the Indian Ocean on a yacht. When the ship suffers a machine damage near the coast, it is decided to go ashore.

6.5

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1936

Artisten

A Harry Piel adventure in the circus milieu: the famous artist Harry trains with the young Hella Stoll, whom he has been raising after the accidental death of her parents. In the interim, now grown up Hella has secretly fallen in love with Harry, but, for the moment, he only has eyes for the seductive Vera Leander. Only a serious accident, which has almost cost Harry his life, brings him back to his senses. Unhappy Hella, however, has already left the circus. Searching for her, Harry has to battle a wild elephant and bring a criminal to justice. But finally, he finds Hella and can admit to his love for her.

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1935

Die Welt ohne Maske

Harry Piel

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1934

An Invisible Man Goes Through the City

A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An inventive comedy.

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1933

Sprung in den Abgrund

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1933

The Ship Without a Harbor

Klaus Hansen is a Sea Police, patrolling on the German North Sea coast. Having just married the singer Kitty Korff, the couple goes on honeymoon. But there is a ghost ship bothering him.

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1932

Jonny Steals Europe

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1932

Secret Agent

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1932

Shallow Shadows

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1931

Bobby goes off

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1931

Shadows of the Underworld

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1931

Menschen im Feuer

Harry Peltzer, who is passionate about his job as a firefighter, and his superior, fire chief Paul Körner, are the best of friends. This changes the day they both meet Nelly, a young, blonde cashier at a vending machine buffet, on whom both men immediately set their eyes. As Harry has a much better chance with Nelly, Paul's friendship with him soon turns into bitter antagonism, if not outright enmity.

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1931

Him or Me

Prince Valona has a bit of trouble with his girlfriend Eveline (Olivia Fried), so he's quite open for the attraction of a young lady he meets by chance (Valerie Boothby). He doesn't know, however, that this lady is a detective who follows the con-man Carlo Moreno, and as the prince and the criminal look alike, she mistakes the prince for the criminal. The real Moreno isn't far away, though, and he first deprives the prince of his train ticket and then also takes on his identity in order to steal a pearl necklace from Eveline.

5.5

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1930

Danger! car thieves!

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1930

Sein bester Freund

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1929

Männer ohne Beruf

A police deputy in Paris have a lead on an international gang into trafficking. The police dresses as a steward to tail the head of the gang to Marseille. On the ship he meets with Madeleine. A girl controlled by the traffickers.

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1929

Die Mitternachts-Taxe

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1929

Seine stärkste Waffe

"His Best Force" - Harry Petersen has just made a big invention: the lamp without electrical supply. In American businessman Al Kinley, Harry hopes to find a financier for his idea, but Kinley does not show any interest.

0.0

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1928

Man Against Man

6.0

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1928

Panik

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1928

Rätsel einer Nacht

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1927

His Greatest Bluff

His Greatest Bluff is a German silent comedy film. Today, the film is best known for the early role it offered to Marlene Dietrich who was only cast after great effort by her agents.

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1927

What's Going on in Beely Circus?

Harry Piel plays Harry Peel who receives an urgent telephone call from a friend who has returned from South America recently. The call is being made from the circus "Beely" and our hero arrives there too late to prevent the murder of his friend. Now Harry must find his friend's killer and go on a strange mission involving a hidden document.

4.5

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1927

Attention Harry! Open eyes!

8.7

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1926

Der schwarze Pierrot

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1926

Abenteuer im Nachtexpreß

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1925

Zigano

Filmarchiv Austria holds a non-access master print and a nitrate duplicate negative of the film.

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1925

Swifter than Death

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1925

The Man Without Nerves

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1924

Dangerous Paths

DANGEROUS PATHS marked the beginning of Henrik Galeen’s collaboration with Piel, which by 1931 had comprised a total of five films. The present film offers the opportunity to see screenwriter Galeen in front of the camera as the super-rich American Francis. The journeyman carpenter Harry is bewitched by Francis’s daughter Dorothy, whom he has to rescue from the clutches of dangerous hoodlums. The gang is also trying to steal the crown of a prince. Thus Harry finds himself in a sophisticated adventure that features spectacular nature shots (filmed in the Alps).

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1924

Menschen und Masken, 1. Teil - Der falsche Emir

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1924

Adventure of a night

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1923

Rivals

Using his marauding robot and other futuristic weapons, power-crazed scientist Professor Ravello carries out various plots to win the hand of Evelyn away from her true love Harry Peel.

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1923