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Reinhold Schünzel

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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.

07-11-1888

Birthday

Scorpio

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

80

Total Films

Also known as (male)

Sankt Pauli, Hamburg, Germany

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

80 Works

producer

2 Works

director

68 Works

writer

25 Works

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The Vicious Circle

The Vicious Circle

In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all the property owners to sell to him, except for a few properties owned by Jewish families. Infuriated at their refusal to sell to him, he attempts, with the help of some corrupt local police, to have the men charged with the murder of a local woman, who in reality actually committed suicide.
5.5

Year:

1948

Berlin Express

Berlin Express

In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
6.1

Year:

1948

Golden Earrings

Golden Earrings

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.
5.8

Year:

1947

Notorious

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.
7.7

Year:

1946

Dragonwyck

Dragonwyck

For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.
6.6

Year:

1946

The Man in Half Moon Street

The Man in Half Moon Street

A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
5.4

Year:

1945

Hostages

Hostages

After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.
6.0

Year:

1943

First Comes Courage

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.
6.6

Year:

1943

Hangmen Also Die!

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.
6.9

Year:

1943

The Ball

The Ball

The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects the offer.
0.0

Year:

1931

Her Grace Commands

Her Grace Commands

An emancipated Princess, who has just returned home to her court in the Balkans from England, goes in disguise to a servants’ bal and falls in love with an alleged caterer, who turns out next day to be a lieutenant of the guard. Without letting on to her masquerade, she makes sure he climbs the ranks quickly. At the same time, she tries to thwart her engagement to an unpopular prince.
5.0

Year:

1931

The 3 Penny Opera

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'.
7.1

Year:

1931

1914

1914

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
0.0

Year:

1931

Kolonne X

Kolonne X

0.0

Year:

1929

Peter, der Matrose

Peter, der Matrose

0.0

Year:

1929

Adam und Eva

Adam und Eva

0.0

Year:

1928

Herkules Maier

Herkules Maier

0.0

Year:

1928

Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!

Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!

A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others (1919).
5.4

Year:

1927

Heaven on Earth

Heaven on Earth

Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the night life. Although Belmann's stance is supported by his wife, he is strongly opposed by his father-in-law, a champagne manufacturer. But when he inherits 500 000 Marks in cash and the infamous nightclub "Der Himmel auf Erden" ("Heaven on Earth") from his deceased brother, Bellmann really gets himself into trouble: In order to fulfil his brother's will - and to get hold of the money - , he has to be at the club every night at 9 pm.
0.0

Year:

1927

Hallo Caesar!

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.
5.0

Year:

1927

The Imaginary Baron

The Imaginary Baron

The film follows the comic (mis)adventures of a poor street musician, who is roped into posing as an eccentric nobleman. He and his antics are rapturously received by the members of a bourgeois family desperate to mingle with the aristocracy. The daughter of the family takes a fancy to the baron (in reality, merely a “joke baron”), assuming him to be immensely wealthy.
0.0

Year:

1927

Der Hahn im Korb

Der Hahn im Korb

0.0

Year:

1925

Sündenbabel

Sündenbabel

0.0

Year:

1925

Flight Around the World

Flight Around the World

A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Brest.
5.3

Year:

1925

Rags and Silk

Rags and Silk

At the center of this social satire is the wealthy and bored couple Irene and Erik. When Erik meets Hilde, who comes from a humble background, one evening in a chic club, he sees an opportunity for the couple to sexually spice up their worn-out relationship and to escape through a ménage à trois.
0.0

Year:

1925

Battle of the Butterflies

Battle of the Butterflies

Naive 16 year old Rosi paints butterfly pictures and day-dreams of a better world, abhorring the conducts of Else, Laura, Max and and an immoral cavalier. [16-minute segment survives.]
0.0

Year:

1924

All for Money

All for Money

Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.
0.0

Year:

1923

Das Liebesnest

Das Liebesnest

0.0

Year:

1922

Bigamie

Bigamie

0.0

Year:

1922

Lady Hamilton

Lady Hamilton

The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
5.8

Year:

1921

The Story of a Maid

The Story of a Maid

A young naive country girl moves to Berlin to become a maid for the dubious family of Baron von Birthal.
0.0

Year:

1921

The Count of Cagliostro

The Count of Cagliostro

About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known under his alias of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.
0.0

Year:

1920

Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great

The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.
0.0

Year:

1920

Moriturus

Moriturus

A doctor who cannot figure out what is wrong with his patient refers him to a detective, whom he hopes will be able to discern the cause of his mysterious illness.
0.0

Year:

1920

Drei Nächte

Drei Nächte

0.0

Year:

1920

Maria Magdalene

Maria Magdalene

0.0

Year:

1920

Figures of the Night

Figures of the Night

"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage. His servants are defaced dwarfs. His secretary is trying to steal Bezugs assets. These are the night people.
0.0

Year:

1920

Lillis Ehe

Lillis Ehe

Lilli marries Dr. Friese, but when she realizes that he was her mother's lover, tragedy ensues.
0.0

Year:

1919

Lilli

Lilli

0.0

Year:

1919

Eerie Tales

Eerie Tales

A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
5.5

Year:

1919

Wahnsinn

Wahnsinn

A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the key to either his happiness or his death. This film is considered lost.
0.0

Year:

1919

Madame DuBarry

Madame DuBarry

The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
6.4

Year:

1919

Prostitution II

Prostitution II

About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.
0.0

Year:

1919

Blonde Poison

Blonde Poison

Loni is a femme fatale who lives a depraved life with several lovers. She plunges her husband to ruin without any remorse. The film was banned shortly after the opening night.
0.0

Year:

1919

The Last Payment

The Last Payment

A beautiful woman of the Latin Quarter, marries a rich cattle owner Pedro Maurez from South America to live in peace and happiness. The arrival of young Parisian Paul Durand wets her interest again in the old haunts of Paris. When her husband is slain in an uprising of laborers, she is again thrown on her own resources.
0.0

Year:

1919

Different from the Others

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).
6.9

Year:

1919

Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days

Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.
5.5

Year:

1919

Um Krone und Peitsche

Um Krone und Peitsche

Melodrama with the theme of class difference between a Count and the daughter of a ringmaster. They marry but their environment work against them in all kinds of fronts.
6.0

Year:

1919

Heddas Rache

Heddas Rache

The brothel mother's illegitimate daughter takes revenge by luring her half-siblings into the brothel.
0.0

Year:

1919

Der Weltspiegel

Der Weltspiegel

0.0

Year:

1918

Frühlingsstürme im Herbste des Lebens

Frühlingsstürme im Herbste des Lebens

After the death of her father, the young Comtesse von Hagen is taken in by her father's friend, who lives with his cousin and her son. The cousin is unhappy at this arrangement, and accuses the Comtesse of theft.
0.0

Year:

1918

The Ballet Girl

The Ballet Girl

0.0

Year:

1918

Schloss am See

Schloss am See

0.0

Year:

1918

Auf Probe gestellt

Auf Probe gestellt

Countess Marlene, a young and impoverished widow, is set to marry an old and wealthy count when she falls for a painter.
0.0

Year:

1918

Countess Kitchenmaid

Countess Kitchenmaid

Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.
0.0

Year:

1918

Die Erzkokette

Die Erzkokette

0.0

Year:

1917

The Latest Star from Vaudeville

The Latest Star from Vaudeville

Stella Orlanda is a young variety artist who can stand her ground like the next man - and not only on the stage from where as a boxer she calls out the strongest men in the audience. - Annette Förster
0.0

Year:

1917

Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil

Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil

Every Friday the 13th, a member of the Eulenstein family dies. The son of the most recent victim hires a detective to investigate.
0.0

Year:

1916

Der chinesische Götze. Das unheimliche Haus. 3. Teil

Der chinesische Götze. Das unheimliche Haus. 3. Teil

All is not well in the Mollheim home. The elder Mollheim decides to marry off his daughter with an unusually large dowry, in exchange for a rare Chinese idol. The daughter of the house, being opposed to the idea, decides to hire a private detective to get to the bottom of it. The detective doesn't get far before the idol is stolen and its owner is murdered.
0.0

Year:

1916