Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Home > All persons > Louis Brody
Louis Brody is a Actor Camerounais born on 15 february 1892 at Douala (Cameroun)

Louis Brody

Louis Brody
  • Infos
  • Photos
  • Best films
  • Family
  • Characters
  • Awards
If you like this person, let us know!
Birth name M'bebe Mpessa
Nationality Cameroun
Birth 15 february 1892 at Douala (Cameroun)
Death 11 february 1951 (at 58 years) at Berlin (German)

Louis Brody (Birth Name M'bebe Mpessa) was born 15 February 1892, in Douala, in the German colony of Kamerun, now Cameroon) and died 11 February 1952, Berlin, Germany was a notable black German actor, musician, and wrestler.

His career began in the 1920s and lasted uninterrupted throughout the Nazi regime till his death in 1952. Brody engaged also in political work in favour of Afro Germans as part of the African Aid Organisation, established by and for Afro-Germans living in Germany. In 1938 he married a woman from Danzig. Unlike black and Jewish colleagues and friends of his, Brody survived the racist regime of the Nazis while remaining active and successful as an artist. His roles often emphasized the racial stigmas prevalent against blacks in Germany at the times.


Usually with

Hans Albers
Hans Albers
(6 films)
Bernhard Goetzke
Bernhard Goetzke
(5 films)
Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
(3 films)
Eduard von Winterstein
Eduard von Winterstein
(5 films)
Herbert Selpin
Herbert Selpin
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Louis Brody (28 films)

Display filmography as list

Actor

The Black Forest Girl
The Black Forest Girl (1950)
, 1h40
Directed by Hans Deppe
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Operetta films
Actors Paul Hörbiger, Sonja Ziemann, Rudolf Prack, Gretl Schörg, Walter Müller, Fritz Kampers
Roles Man at Party
Rating50% 2.500732.500732.500732.500732.50073
Au cours d'une fête costumée, le jeune peintre Hans Hauser rencontre la secrétaire Bärbele Riederle, qui porte le costume traditionnel d'une fille de la Forêt-Noire. Hans Hauser est un ami proche de la meneuse de revue Malwine Heinau qui est aussi présente au bal avec son partenaire Richard Petersen. Malwine porte ce soir-là un bijou du joaillier Bussmann à des fins publicitaires. Son employé, Theo Patzke, qui est responsable de la sécurité de la bijouterie, est tombé amoureux de Malwine et n'a pas pu lui refuser qu'elle porte le bijou lors de la fête. Mais il voit soudainement son patron entrer dans la salle. Bärbele Riederle, la secrétaire de Bussmann, remarque que Patzke est saoul et décide de retirer le bijou elle-même.
Münchhausen
Münchhausen (1943)
, 1h59
Directed by Josef von Báky
Origin German
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Space opera
Actors Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Ilse Werner, Ferdinand Marian, Hans Brausewetter, Brigitte Horney
Rating69% 3.491693.491693.491693.491693.49169
The film opens at an 18th-century ball, where Baron Hieronymus von Münchhausen is propositioned by a young woman who is engaged to another man. He graciously rejects her advance, and as she leaves, she asks him to turn on the light. The camera follows his hand to a modern light switch, and the young woman drives off in an automobile. The next day, the Baron, out of his costume and in modern dress, regales two of his guests with stories of the famous Baron Münchhausen, to whom his guests think he is distantly related.
Uncle Kruger
Uncle Kruger (1941)
, 2h15
Directed by Karl Anton, Herbert Maisch, Hans Steinhoff
Genres War, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Emil Jannings, Lucie Höflich, Werner Hinz, Ernst Schröder, Gisela Uhlen, Ferdinand Marian
Rating63% 3.1987453.1987453.1987453.1987453.198745
The film opens with a dying Paul Krüger (Emil Jannings) speaking about his life to his nurse in a Geneva hotel. The rest of the film is told in flashback.
Carl Peters
Carl Peters (1941)

Directed by Herbert Selpin
Origin German
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Hans Albers, Karl Dannemann, Fritz Odemar, Hans Leibelt, Erika von Thellmann, Herbert Hübner
Rating57% 2.878532.878532.878532.878532.87853
The film follows Carl Peters, one of the founders of German East Africa. When addressing a parliamentary commission of inquiry, he openly calls for a Hitlerian policy of territorial conquest, which according to him requires hard-headed men, such as himself. He defends executions without trial as a way to prevent an uprising, which, he insists, the parliamentarians could not have prevented. The parliamentarians, who are also Jews, do not accept this, demonstrating what happens when the Führerprinzip is not adhered to.
Jew Süss
Jew Süss (1940)
, 1h36
Directed by Veit Harlan
Genres Drama
Themes Politique, Films about religion, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Ferdinand Marian, Werner Krauss, Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum, Eugen Gottlob Klöpfer, Bernhard Goetzke
Roles Schwarzer Diener des Herzogs
Rating49% 2.498362.498362.498362.498362.49836
The film begins with the coronation of Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg (Heinrich George), a man much beloved by his people, who swears an oath to obey the laws of the dukedom "according to the traditional Württemberg loyalty and honesty." However, the Duke soon becomes frustrated because the Württemberg Diet (the provincial council) refuses him the funds needed to maintain a lifestyle comparable to his neighboring sovereigns; in particular, he wants a personal bodyguard, an opera company, and a ballet company. Lacking funds even to purchase coronation gifts for the Duchess (Hilde von Stolz), the Duke sends a courtier to Frankfurt to borrow money from Joseph Süß Oppenheimer (Ferdinand Marian). Süß shows the emissary jewels and jewelry that are obviously beyond the Duke's means and then says that it would be his honor to provide the Duke with jewelry at a substantial discount. However, Süß insists on presenting the items to the Duke personally despite a ban against Jews (Judenbann) entering the city that has been in force for over a century. Armed with a pass from the Duke, Süß cuts his hair, shaves his beard, and dons "Christian" clothes so that he can enter Württemberg disguised as a Christian. As his carriage gets into an accident, Süß gets a lift from Dorothea Sturm (Kristina Söderbaum) to the city.
L'Océan en feu
L'Océan en feu (1939)

Genres Adventure
Actors Winnie Markus, Alexander Engel, Michael Bohnen, Rudolf Fernau, Wolfgang Staudte, Walter Bluhm
Rating58% 2.943182.943182.943182.943182.94318
Les deux amis Tom Finberg et Nick Dorland, qui travaillent pour la Carribean Oil Company, tombent amoureux de la même jeune femme, Juana, propriétaire d'une hacienda. Sur un malentendu, causé par l'oncle de la jeune femme, Pedro de Alvarado, les deux amis se disputent. Cependant, lorsque Tom est pris au piège par les flammes du pétrole en feu, Nick vient à sa rescousse.
Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika
Die Reiter von Deutsch-Ostafrika (1934)
, 1h29
Directed by Herbert Selpin
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films
Actors Sepp Rist, Peter Voß, Georg H. Schnell, Rudolf Klicks, Louis Brody, Vivigenz Eickstedt
Roles Hellhoffs Aufseher Hamissi
Rating60% 3.0004253.0004253.0004253.0004253.000425
Sepp Rist plays the role of Hellhoff, a German farmer in German East Africa, who is conscripted into the Schutztruppe (German armed colonial force) at the beginning of the First World War. His wife Gerda and the young volunteer Klix manage the plantation while he is away. In 1916, the plantation is occupied by a British unit. The commander, Major Cresswell, knows Gerda is secretly supplying Hellhoff and his comrades who are concealed in the bush. He tries to use his old friendship with the Hellhoffs put a stop to her activities. In order to carry out his duty as a British officer, he has his troops occupy the area's water supply to force the German soldiers to surrender. As Hellhoff's wife and Klix are trying to clandestinely supply water to Hellhoff, she is arrested and the boy shot. He still manages to bring the canteen to the soldiers before he dies. Hellhoff and his men liberate Gerda, who was to be taken away for trial by a British military court, and make off with water and horses. On their way to join up with Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's East African Schutztruppe command, they stop at Klix's grave. Hellhoff promises the dead boy he will come back sooner or later — an allusion to the recovery of the lost colony through German victory in the First World War.
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions
Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1932)
, 1h44
Directed by Ewald André Dupont
Origin German
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Actors Willi Forst, Alice Treff, Paul Hörbiger, Ida Wüst, Otto Wernicke, Josef Eichheim
Rating66% 3.3373253.3373253.3373253.3373253.337325
Alors que le riche M. Pitt annonce un montant de millions, la banque Schilling & Co. est menacé par la faillite. C'est pourquoi le représentant autorisé Peter Voss simule une effraction, un vol de deux millions de marks. Il veut se cacher maintenant jusqu'à ce que les parts de marché augmentent à nouveau.