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Friedrich Kayßler is a Actor Allemand born on 7 april 1874 at Nowa Ruda (Pologne)

Friedrich Kayßler

Friedrich Kayßler
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Nationality German
Birth 7 april 1874 at Nowa Ruda (Pologne)
Death 24 april 1945 (at 71 years) at Kleinmachnow (German)

Friedrich Kayßler (7 April 1874 – 30 April 1945) was a German theatre and film actor. He appeared in 56 films between 1913 and 1945.

Biography

Kayßler was born in Neurode in the Prussian Silesia Province (now Nowa Ruda in Poland). He attended the gymnasium in Breslau (Wrocław), where he became a close friend of Christian Morgenstern and Fritz Beblo. Graduating in 1893 Kayßler studied philosophy at the universities of Breslau and Munich and began his theatre career at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin under manager Otto Brahm, later working at municipal theatres in Görlitz and Halle.

At the Deutsches Theater, Kayßler had made friends with director Max Reinhardt, whose Schall und Rauch Kabarett ensemble in Berlin he joined in 1901. He followed Reinhardt, when he became manager of the Deutsches Theater in 1905, where Kayßler performed in Kleist's The Prince of Homburg, Goethe's Faust and Ibsen's Peer Gynt. He also succeeded Reinhardt as manager of the Berlin Volksbühne from 1918 until 1923. He first appeared as a film actor in the silent movie Welche sterben, wenn sie lieben in 1913 and wrote several poems and dramas.

In March 1944 his son Christian, who was also a popular film actor, was killed in an allied bombing raid. Kayßler was named as one of the Third Reich's most important artists in the Gottbegnadeten list of September 1944. During the Battle of Berlin he was murdered by Red Army troops at his house in the suburb of Kleinmachnow, when he tried to protect his wife.

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Filmography of Friedrich Kayßler (32 films)

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Bismarck
Bismarck (1940)
, 1h58
Directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Genres Drama
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Paul Hartmann, Lil Dagover, Käthe Haack, Otto Gebühr, Franz Schafheitlin, Ruth Hellberg
Roles Wilhelm I.
Rating63% 3.187183.187183.187183.187183.18718
The film depicts the life of the Prussian statesman Otto Von Bismarck, a German nationalist who withstands parliament to act for the people, a lonely genius.
The Fox of Glenarvon, 1h31
Directed by Max W. Kimmich
Genres Drama
Themes Politique, Political films
Actors Olga Tschechowa, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Ferdinand Marian, Albert Florath, Lucie Höflich, Else von Möllendorff
Roles O'Riordon
Rating63% 3.1744053.1744053.1744053.1744053.174405
The film takes place in the fictional Irish county of Glenarvon, somewhere in the northwest of Galway, and tells the story of Gloria Grandison, the Irish wife of the local British magistrate, who falls in love with an Irish freedom fighter and leaves her husband for him. The story is set in 1884, during the Irish fight for freedom and independence from Great Britain.
Friedrich Schiller – The Triumph of a Genius, 1h42
Directed by Herbert Maisch
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers, Poésie
Actors Horst Caspar, Hannelore Schroth, Heinrich George, Lil Dagover, Eugen Gottlob Klöpfer, Paul Dahlke
Roles Vater Schiller
Rating71% 3.574923.574923.574923.574923.57492
Sous la coupe d'un prince autoritaire, le jeune poète Friedrich Schiller affirme sa liberté créatrice.
Covered Tracks, 1h21
Directed by Veit Harlan
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Kristina Söderbaum, Philip Dorn, Heinrich Schroth, Friedrich Kayßler, Paul Dahlke, Leo Peukert
Roles Polizeipräfekt von Paris
Rating68% 3.438683.438683.438683.438683.43868
Séraphine arrive avec sa mère à Paris pour visiter l'Exposition universelle. Elles doivent loger dans deux hôtels différents. Le lendemain, lorsqu'elle vient retrouver sa mère, celle-ci a disparu, et c'est comme si elle n'avait même pas été à l'hôtel du tout...
The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1h22
Directed by Karel Lamač
Genres Horror, Crime
Themes Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films
Actors Peter Voß, Friedrich Kayßler, Fritz Odemar, Fritz Rasp, Erich Ponto, Ernst Rotmund
Roles Lord Charles Baskerville
Rating60% 3.0046653.0046653.0046653.0046653.004665
L'action débute lors d'un banquet au manoir de Sir Hugo Baskerville. La scène illustre la cruauté de Sir Hugo qui, en pleine réception, tue dans un duel à l'épée un invité, Sir Bettans, qui avait courtisé sa femme. Alors que Sir Hugo va s'en prendre à cette dernière, un chien surgit et attaque le maître de maison, le mettant hors d'état de nuire.
The Making of a King, 1h40
Directed by Hans Steinhoff
Genres Biography, Historical
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Emil Jannings, Leopoldine Konstantin, Claus Clausen, Carola Höhn, Paul Henckels, Walter Janssen
Roles Katte's Father
Rating69% 3.4931253.4931253.4931253.4931253.493125
The film opens at Potsdam in the time of "The Soldier's King" Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, with the Royal Family sitting at the breakfast table. It turns out that Crown Prince Friedrich, informally called "Fritz", had lost so much money at the gaming tables that he had to sign debentures. Members of the grenadier regiment had seen the crown prince appearing late in a wretched state, which greatly angers his father. The King would like to prepare his son for the future role as a ruler, and regards his preoccupation with music and literature with big displeasure.
Friesennot
Friesennot (1935)
, 1h37
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Friedrich Kayßler, Maria Koppenhöfer, Martha Ziegler, Fritz Hoopts, Marianne Simson
Roles Jürgen Wagner
Rating59% 2.9682.9682.9682.9682.968
Communist authorities are making life as difficult as possible for a village of Volga Germans in the Soviet Union, with taxes and other oppression. When Mette, a half-Russian, half-Frisian woman, becomes the girlfriend of Kommissar Tschernoff, the Frisians murder her and throw her body in the swamp. Open violence breaks out, and the Red Army soldiers are all killed; the villagers set fire to their village and flee.
The Girl from the Marsh Croft, 1h22
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin German
Genres Drama
Actors Hansi Knoteck, Ellen Frank, Friedrich Kayßler, Eduard von Winterstein, Lina Carstens, Theodor Loos
Roles Vater Dittmar
Rating67% 3.3794053.3794053.3794053.3794053.379405
Un jeune et modeste fermier, amoureux d'une femme issue d'une plus grande ferme que lui, se rend à la foire aux bonnes pour en embaucher une. Il tombe en affection pour une jolie bonne, enceinte de son ancien patron et qui se défend lors d'un procès pour faire reconnaître le futur bébé.
Mazurka
Mazurka (1935)

Directed by Willi Forst
Genres Drama
Actors Pola Negri, Albrecht Schoenhals, Franziska Kinz, Paul Hartmann, Willi Forst, Friedrich Kayßler
Rating72% 3.607523.607523.607523.607523.60752
Une femme est jugée pour le meurtre d'un musicien qui a ruiné son mariage.
Gold
Gold (1934)
, 2h
Directed by Karl Hartl
Genres Science fiction, Crime
Actors Brigitte Helm, Hans Albers, Michael Bohnen, Friedrich Kayßler, Lien Deyers, Willi Schur
Roles Prof. Achenbach
Rating66% 3.343613.343613.343613.343613.34361
In the United Kingdom, a British scientist is convinced that one can turn base materials into gold by using a giant underwater atomic reactor. A German scientist also works on a similar experiment but is killed by a mysterious explosion. His assistant Werner Holk (Hans Albers) is then taken in by the British scientist and forced to work on the project. The project eventually works but later malfunctions which leads to the British scientist to destroy his plant and all who remain in it. Holk manages to escape in the last minute with the alchemist's daughter Florence (Brigitte Helm) before a flood destroys the area.