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Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

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Nationality German
Birth 4 may 1898 at Metz (France)
Death 19 november 1958 (at 60 years) at Vienna (Austria)

Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (5 May 1898 – 19 November 1958) was a German film actor.

Biography

Twardowski was born in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin in Poland). He made his first film appearance in the 1920 Robert Wiene-directed horror movie Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) which starred Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss and Lil Dagover. He would go on to appear in over 20 movies in Weimar Germany during the 1920s. In 1921, Twardowski portrayed Joshua Nesbitt, Lord Horatio Nelson's stepson, in Lady Hamilton. Twardowski appeared in Der Falsche Dimitri and Es leuchtet meine Liebe the following year.

In 1927, Twardowski appeared in Die Weber (The Weavers) about man fighting against machines. The following year, he appeared in the Fritz Lang thriller Spione (Spies). A year later, he portrayed Otto von Wittelsbach, younger brother of Mad King Ludwig II, in Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern (Ludwig II, King of Bavaria). His first sound movie was Der König von Paris (The King of Paris) in 1930. His last movie in Germany was 1931's Der Herzog von Reichstadt.

Twardowski, a homosexual, fled Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime. Shortly after, he appeared in the 1932 drama Scandal for Sale starring Pat O'Brien. In 1933; he played Von Bergen in the war drama Private Jones, a prince in Adorable and a lawyer in The Devil's in Love.

The following year, Twardowski played Ivan Shuvolov in The Scarlet Empress. In 1935, Twardowski appeared as Count Nicholas of Hungary in the Cecil B. DeMille film The Crusades starring Loretta Young. It would be two years before Twardowski appeared in another movie and that was a small part in the romance Thin Ice starring Sonja Henie and Tyrone Power. Because of the time he spent directing and appearing in plays on stage, it would be another two years before he worked in another movie.

In 1939, Twardowski's career picked up as he appeared in two Warner Bros. anti-Nazi movies. He played Max Helldorf in the spy thriller Confessions of a Nazi Spy. Next Twardowski appeared in another spy thriller Espionage Agent starring Joel McCrea which was released just three weeks after Germany invaded Poland.

Later in 1939, Twardowski appeared in the highly controversial anti-Nazi movie Hitler - Beast of Berlin. Twardowski plays Albert Stalhelm, a SS storm trooper who becomes disillusioned with the brutality of the Nazi regime. His character accidentally betrays his anti-Nazi friends to his fellow SS members, who in turn murder him.

With the outbreak of World War II and the subsequent increase in war movies, Twardowski received uncredited roles as Nazis. He portrayed storm troopers, U-Boat captains, and army officers. He appeared in seven films in 1942, including a large role as Captain Gemmler in the Nazi spy thriller Dawn Express. He next played an uncredited role as a sergeant in The Pied Piper starring Monty Woolley as an Englishman trying to get out of German-occupied France with a group of children. He also appeared in the comedy Joan of Ozark.

Twardowski appeared as a German soldier in Desperate Journey with Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan. He received a bit part as a U-Boat captain in RKO's The Navy Comes Through starring Pat O'Brien. He had another bit part in the comedy Once Upon a Honeymoon starring Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers.

In June 1942, Twardowski, appeared in a small role in Casablanca playing a German officer. In 1943, Twardowski appeared in Lang's Hangmen Also Die!, portraying the notorious Nazi SS Commandant Reinhard Heydrich. All of his lines in this movie were in German. Twardowski played a German officer in Raoul Walsh's Background to Danger starring George Raft, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. This was followed by a bit part as a Nazi captain in the war drama First Comes Courage.

Twardowski appeared in The Strange Death of Adolph Hitler. Later that year, he had a small part in the war drama The Cross of Lorraine starring Gene Kelly, Cedric Hardwicke and Lorre.

Twardowski's last two movies were 1944 war dramas; first he appeared as a doctor in The Hitler Gang and later as a German Red Cross representative in Resisting Enemy Interrogation.

Twardowski's acting career ended along with World War II. However, he continued to write and direct plays. He originally starred on stage as the Dauphin in Schiller's productions of Die Jungfrau von Orleans. In the 1930s, Twardowski directed and appeared in the stage productions of The Brothers Karamazov and Old Heidelberg in the Pasadena Playhouse. In 1939, he wrote and produced a play in Brooklyn's St. Felix Street Playhouse called Shakespeare Merchant - 1939, based on Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Twardowski also sang tenor in a number of musicals.

Twardowski died of a heart attack in his New York City apartment at age 60.

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Filmography of Hans Heinrich von Twardowski (43 films)

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Resisting Enemy Interrogation, 1h10
Directed by Bernard Vorhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors John Arthur Kennedy, Lloyd Nolan, Louis Adlon, Don Porter, Craig Stevens, George Dolenz
Roles Herr Mahler - German Red Cross Representative
Rating67% 3.3819853.3819853.3819853.3819853.381985
The movie centers around efforts by German intelligence to find the target of an upcoming raid by the mythical "B-99 bomber." To achieve this end, they interrogate a recently shot-down air crew.
The Hitler Gang, 1h41
Directed by John Farrow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Historical
Themes Politique, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Hitler, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Roman Bohnen, Martin Kosleck, Victor Varconi, Luis van Rooten, Walter Abel, Ivan Triesault
Rating66% 3.318933.318933.318933.318933.31893
In 1918 a young soldier called Adolf Hitler recovers from being gassed during World War I. At the behest of the German army, he joins German nationalistic parties, espousing theories that Germany lost the war because they were stabbed in the back. He rises to become dictator of Germany.
Casablanca
Casablanca (1943)
, 1h42
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Crime, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet
Roles German Officer with Yvonne (uncredited)
Rating84% 4.2485354.2485354.2485354.2485354.248535
Set in December, 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine is the proprietor of an upscale nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele: Vichy French, Italian, and German officials; refugees desperate to reach the still neutral United States; and those who prey on them. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, it is later revealed he ran guns to Ethiopia during its war with Italy and fought on the Loyalist side against the fascist Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.
Hangmen Also Die!, 2h14
Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Brian Donlevy, Walter Brennan, Arno Frey, Anna Lee, Gene Lockhart
Roles Reinhard Heydrich
Rating73% 3.6948953.6948953.6948953.6948953.694895
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda (Brian Donlevy), a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich (Hans Heinrich von Twardowski), but his getaway car is discovered and therefore his planned safe house must reject him. When a woman he doesn't know, named Mascha (Anna Lee), deliberately misdirects German soldiers close to finding him, he seeks her home as an alternative safe house. This turns out to be the home of her father, history professor Stephen Novotny (Walter Brennan), whom the Nazis have banned from teaching. This plan works. But because the assassin now can't be found, the Nazi leaders in Prague decide to create an incentive for him to turn himself in or for others to do so. They arrange–with the help of fifth-columnist Emil Czaka (Gene Lockhart), a wealthy brewer–for 400 citizens, including Professor Novotny, to be executed, forty at a time, until the assassin is named. Through a complex series of events, however, the resistance manages to frame Czaka himself for the murder, but not before the Nazis have executed many of the hostages.
Margin for Error, 1h14
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Joan Bennett, Milton Berle, Otto Preminger, Carl Esmond, Howard Freeman, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Roles Fritz - Butler
Rating58% 2.90552.90552.90552.90552.9055
When police officer Moe Finkelstein Milton Berle and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer (Otto Preminger) by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi. Capt. Mulrooney, who appointed them to this job, tells Moe that although the mayor personally is opposed to Adolf Hitler and his regime, the mayor is responsible for the safety of everybody, and he feels that through this Job Finkelstein can show them the difference between their system and the Nazi one.
First Comes Courage, 1h28
Directed by Dorothy Arzner, Charles Vidor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Merle Oberon, Brian Aherne, Carl Esmond, Isobel Elsom, Fritz Leiber, Erville Alderson
Roles Nazi Captain (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.2395853.2395853.2395853.2395853.239585
Nicole Larsen (Merle Oberon) is a member of the Norwegian resistance in a small town, about to be married to the Nazi commandant (Carl Esmond). When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies land an assassin to kill him - an assassin who happens to be her former lover, Capt. Allan Lowe (Brian Aherne).
Background to Danger, 1h20
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy, Historical, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Osa Massen, Turhan Bey
Roles German Officer
Rating63% 3.1992853.1992853.1992853.1992853.199285
In 1942, Nazi Germany attempts to bring neutral Turkey into the war on its side by staging an assassination attempt on Franz von Papen, its own ambassador to the country. Much to the annoyance of Colonel Robinson (Sydney Greenstreet), von Papen survives and the Russians that his agent provocateur was trying to frame have solid alibis, forcing him to turn to another scheme to inflame Turkey's traditional rivalry with Russia.
Edge of Darkness, 1h59
Directed by Lewis Milestone, Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Helmut Dantine, Judith Anderson, Nancy Coleman
Roles German Co-Pilot (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.592183.592183.592183.592183.59218
In the Norwegian fishing village of Trollness, residents resist the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. In October 1942, the Norwegian flag is flying high over the Nazi outpost but almost everyone in town is dead. The German troops sent to investigate discover the German commander, Captain Koenig, dead in his office. The film the proceeds to tell the events that led to this disaster.
Hitler's Madman
Directed by Douglas Sirk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman, Ralph Morgan, Edgar Kennedy
Rating64% 3.245473.245473.245473.245473.24547
En 1942, de passage dans le petit village tchèque de Lidice, Reinhard Heydrich, Reichsprotektor de Bohême, commandant en chef du gouvernement nazi en Tchécoslovaquie (Protectorat de Bohême-Moravie), est mortellement blessé lors d'un attentat commis par deux résistants (l'opération Anthropoid). En représailles, Lidice est détruit, une partie de ses habitants fusillés, les autres déportés...
Once Upon a Honeymoon, 1h57
Directed by Leo McCarey, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker, Albert Bassermann, Ferike Boros
Roles German Officer (uncredited)
Rating63% 3.198033.198033.198033.198033.19803
In the days leading up to World War II, Katie O'Hara (Ginger Rogers), an American burlesque performer masquerading as American socialite "Katherine Butt-Smith", pronounced byüt-smith, is about to marry Austrian Baron Von Luber (Walter Slezak). Foreign correspondent Pat O'Toole (Cary Grant) suspects Von Luber of being a Nazi sympathizer and tries unsuccessfully to get information from Katie by deceit, but is warned off by Von Luber.
The Dawn Express, 54minutes
Directed by Albert Herman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Actors Joseph Kenneth Shovlin, Anne Nagel, William Bakewell, Constance Worth, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Jack Mulhall
Roles Capt. Gemmler
Rating45% 2.290852.290852.290852.290852.29085
It is in the middle of World War II and Nazi Captain Gemmler is in need of a powerful chemical formula to improve the energy output of ordinary gasoline. In his quest for this formula he finds two candidates to help him with a solution: the chemist and playboy Tom Fielding and his co-worker Robert Norton, who is engaged to Tom's sister Nancy. They are already involved in such a project for another employer, and Captain Gemmler decides to kidnap them for his own use, using his secret agents.
Desperate Journey, 1h47
Directed by Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, Raymond Massey, John Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Coleman, Ronald Sinclair
Rating67% 3.394623.394623.394623.394623.39462
Assigned to bomb a German railway, Flight Lt. Terrence Forbes (Errol Flynn) presses home an attack but flies too low and the RAF bomber is shot down near the former Polish border. Along with his crew, consisting of Flying Officer Johnny Hammond (Ronald Reagan), Flight Sergeant Kirk Edwards (Alan Hale, Sr.), Flying Officer Jed Forrest (Arthur Kennedy) and Flight Sergeant Lloyd Hollis (Ronald Sinclair) who is wounded, they are captured by the Germans.
Joan of Ozark, 1h22
Directed by Joseph Santley
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Joe E. Brown, Eddie Foy, Jr., Jerome Cowan, Gladys Gale, Alexander Granach, Anne Jeffreys
Roles Hans
Rating58% 2.9211552.9211552.9211552.9211552.921155
A hillbilly manages to foil a ring of Nazi spies operating in the United States.