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Ferdinand Gottschalk is a Actor British born on 24 february 1858 at London (United-kingdom)

Ferdinand Gottschalk

Ferdinand Gottschalk
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 24 february 1858 at London (United-kingdom)
Death 10 november 1944 (at 86 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Ferdinand Gottschalk (28 February 1858 – 10 November 1944) was an English theatre and film actor. He appeared in 76 films between 1917 and 1938. He was born and died in London, England.

He made his first appearance on the stage in Toronto, Canada in 1887 and worked continuously after that date including prominent parts on the New York stage as well as in films. He also wrote and produced plays.

Biography

Installé aux États-Unis durant la majeure partie de sa carrière, Ferdinand Gottschalk est très actif au théâtre à Broadway (New York), où il débute en 1894 dans la pièce The Amazons d'Arthur Wing Pinero. Il joue sur les planches new-yorkaises jusqu'en 1935, dans cinquante-et-une pièces (entre autres, de Philip Barry, Clyde Fitch et William Shakespeare, outre Pinero pré-cité) et deux comédies musicales (en 1903-1904). Il a notamment comme partenaires Arthur Byron, Pedro de Cordoba, Leslie Howard, Mary Nash, Alison Skipworth et Henry Stephenson. Par ailleurs, il assure la mise en scène de deux pièces (sans y jouer), créées à Broadway en 1907 et 1916.

Au cinéma, il collabore à soixante-quinze films (dans des seconds rôles de caractère), exclusivement américains, les trois premiers muets. Il débute à l'écran dans deux réalisations de Dell Henderson, Please Help Emily (1917), puis My Wife (1918), adaptations des pièces éponymes qu'il avait créées à Broadway (My Wife en 1907 et Please Help Emily en 1916). Son troisième et dernier film muet est Zaza (version de 1923) d'Allan Dwan, avec Gloria Swanson dans le rôle-titre.

Ses soixante-douze autres films sont tournés après le passage au parlant. Le premier est un court métrage (Many Happy Returns, 1930). Le suivant, un long métrage, est Cette nuit ou jamais de Mervyn LeRoy (1931, avec Gloria Swanson et Melvyn Douglas), adaptation de la pièce Tonight or Never — titre original du film — qu'il venait de créer à Broadway, aux côtés de Melvyn Douglas et Edmund Lowe. Son troisième film parlant est Grand Hotel d'Edmund Goulding (1932, avec Greta Garbo et John Barrymore). Le cinquième est Le Signe de la croix de Cecil B. DeMille (1932, avec Fredric March et Claudette Colbert). Mentionnons également Les Misérables de Richard Boleslawski (1935, adaptation du fameux roman de Victor Hugo), où il tient le rôle de Thénardier, aux côtés de Fredric March (Jean Valjean) et Charles Laughton (Javert).

Les quatre derniers films de Ferdinand Gottschalk sortent en 1938, dont Les Aventures de Marco Polo d'Archie Mayo (avec Gary Cooper interprétant Marco Polo) et Josette et compagnie d'Allan Dwan à nouveau (avec Don Ameche et Simone Simon). Il se retire alors et regagne Londres, sa ville natale, où il meurt en 1944.

Usually with

Robert Greig
Robert Greig
(10 films)
Orry-Kelly
Orry-Kelly
(9 films)
Gino Corrado
Gino Corrado
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Ferdinand Gottschalk (58 films)

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Actor

The Adventures of Marco Polo, 1h44
Directed by John Ford, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier, Alan Hale, Ernest Truex
Roles Persian Ambassador
Rating56% 2.8038952.8038952.8038952.8038952.803895
Nicolo Polo shows treasures from China and sends his son Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) there with his assistant (and comic relief) Binguccio (Ernest Truex). They sail from Venice, are shipwrecked, and cross the desert of Persia and the mountains of Tibet to China, to seek out Peking and the palace of China's ruler, Kublai Khan (George Barbier).
Josette
Josette (1938)
, 1h13
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Don Ameche, Simone Simon, Robert Young, Joan Davis, Bert Lahr, Paul Hurst
Roles Papa Le Blanc
Rating61% 3.050313.050313.050313.050313.05031
Pierre et David Brassard, deux frères, entreprennent de tirer leur père vieillissant des griffes d'une chanteuse, Josette, qui cherche à se faire épouser. Mais ils se trompent et prennent pour la chanteuse, la ravissante habilleuse, Renée LeBlanc, dont ils ne tardent pas à tomber, l'un et l'autre, amoureux.
Café Metropole, 1h23
Directed by Edward H. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Tyrone Power, Adolphe Menjou, Gregory Ratoff, Charles Winninger
Roles Monsieur Leon Monnet
Rating65% 3.295623.295623.295623.295623.29562
This script must be run from the command line
Carnival in Paris, 1h19
Directed by Juan Orol
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Gangster films
Actors Rosa Carmina, Henry Brandon, Juan Orol, Ann Rutherford, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Tom Ricketts
Roles Museum Director
Rating60% 3.047773.047773.047773.047773.04777
The Gangster Johnny Carmenta (Juan Orol), faces Pancho Dominguez El Charro del Arrabal (Jose Pulido), who has imposed his law in the town. The Rumbera Rosa (Rosa Carmina) seduces both men firing their rivalry.
The Garden of Allah, 1h19
Directed by Richard Boleslawski, Otto Brower, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, French war films, Films about religion
Actors Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Joseph Schildkraut, John Carradine
Roles Employé d'hôtel
Rating58% 2.9013852.9013852.9013852.9013852.901385
Trappist monk Boris Androvski (Charles Boyer) feels enormous pressure at having to keep his vows as a monk, so he flees his monastery. Yet he is the only one who knows the secret recipe of the monastery's famous liqueur, a recipe passed down from one generation of monks to another. Meanwhile, heiress Domini Enfilden (Marlene Dietrich) is newly freed from her own prison of caring for her just-deceased father and also seeks the exotic open spaces of the North African desert to nurture her soul.
Suzy
Suzy (1936)
, 1h33
Directed by George Fitzmaurice
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Cary Grant, Benita Hume, Lewis Stone, Inez Courtney
Roles Le propriétaire du café 'Anges'
Rating63% 3.1969053.1969053.1969053.1969053.196905
In 1914, American showgirl "Suzy" Trent (Jean Harlow) is in London, looking for romance and meets and marries Irish engineer and inventor Terry Moore (Franchot Tone). The couple stumble on a German plot and her husband is shot by Madame Diane Eyrelle (Benita Hume), a mysterious spy. Fearing she will be implicated in Terry's death, Suzy flees to Paris as World War I begins.
That Girl from Paris, 1h44
Directed by Leigh Jason
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Jack Oakie, Lily Pons, Gene Raymond, Mischa Auer, Gregory Gaye, Lucille Ball
Roles Nikki's Uncle (uncredited)
Rating57% 2.856072.856072.856072.856072.85607
Red Salute
Red Salute (1935)
, 1h20
Directed by Sidney Lanfield
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Young, Hardie Albright, Cliff Edwards, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Jones
Roles League Speaker
Rating59% 2.954062.954062.954062.954062.95406
Drue Van Allen (Stanwyck) plays the daughter of a general, in love with a Communist agitator. The general arranges for her to be taken off to Mexico against her will. Determined to return to Washington, she falls in with a rowdy soldier (Young) who more-or-less accidentally goes AWOL, crosses the border in a stolen military vehicle, and kidnaps an easy-going traveler (Edwards) to hide in his homemade trailer.
Break of Hearts, 1h18
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, John Beal, Jean Hersholt, Sam Hardy, Inez Courtney
Roles Enrico Pazzini
Rating58% 2.9022852.9022852.9022852.9022852.902285
Constance, jeune musicienne, tombe éperdument amoureuse d'un chef d'orchestre très célèbre : Frantz Roberti. Il la demande en mariage et lui jure un amour absolu. Lorsqu'elle comprend que cet amour idéal n'existe pas, elle le quitte, souffre à s'en rendre malade puis pour l'oublier, s'étourdit dans une vie mondaine qu'elle ne connaissait pas avec Johnny, le meilleur ami de son mari. Frantz se rend compte après l'avoir perdue, que la perte de cet amour le plonge dans l'abîme. Mais Johnny avoue à constance son amour et la demande en mariage. Elle comprend alors qu'elle n'a jamais cessé d'aimer Frantz.
Clive of India, 1h35
Directed by Richard Boleslawski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive, Francis Lister, C. Aubrey Smith, Cesar Romero
Roles Old Member
Rating61% 3.089113.089113.089113.089113.08911
En Inde, au XVIII siècle, Robert Clive, las de travailler comme employé pour l'East India Company, décide de rejoindre les rangs de l'armée britannique. Il va y faire merveille.
The Gay Deception, 1h17
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Francis Lederer, Frances Dee, Benita Hume, Alan Mowbray, Luis Alberni, Akim Tamiroff
Roles Mr. Squires
Rating67% 3.3885453.3885453.3885453.3885453.388545
Secretary Mirabel Miller (Frances Dee) wins a lottery and decides to live it up in a luxurious New York hotel, where she clashes with a bellboy (Francis Lederer) who is more than he appears to be.