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Bernd Aldor

Picture Bernd Aldor
Foto: Alexander Binder (1888-1929)

1881 - 1950

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The actor Bernd Aldor learnt his acting abilities at the theater school Carl Arnau in Vienna, afterwards he first worked as an extra on stage.

In the year 1900 he got his first contract in Znaim. There he met the then unknown Richard Oswald who later became a well-known director who alse engaged Bernd Aldor for several of his movies.

In the next years he acted at different theaters and in 1906 he came to Berlin where he appeared at the Schiller Theater.

Bernd Aldor began his film career in 1913 with movies like "Ave Maria" (13) and "Die Czernowska" (13). Already in the 10's began a teamwork with the director Richard Oswald and he took part in his movies "Zirkusblut" (16), "Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray" (17), "Es werde Licht" (17), "Es werde Licht, 2. Teil" (18) and "Halbseide" (25).

In the 20's he appeared in well-known movies like "Der Menschenfeind" (23), "Die Todgeweihten" (24) and "Der alte Fritz" (27).

With the arise of the talkies ended his career, he only acted in few more movies like "Dreyfus" (30), "Zwei Menschen" (30), "Elisabeth von Österreich" (31) und "Danton" (31).
In 1932 he realised his only movie as a director for the Romanian film "Visul lui Tanase" (32).

In 1938 he was banned from the NS Reichsfilmkammer because his Aryan origin was not clearly verified. At this time Bernd Aldor was presumably no longer in Germany but in the nearby abroad.
After the war he appeared in Vienna in 1950 where he died briefly afterwards. 
 

Other movies with Bernd Aldor:
Der Fleck (13) Die grosse Sünderin (14) Aschenbrödelchen (15) Glaubensketten (16) Seine letzte Maske (16) Des Goldes Fluch/Schatten der Vergangenheit (17) Der Schlossherr von Hohenstein (17) Der Weg ins Freie (17) Die seltsame Geschichte des Barons Torelli (18) Der lebende Leichnam (18) Rennfieber (18) Die tolle Heirat von Lalo (18) Herr über Leben und Tod (19) Marionetten der Leidenschaft (19) Mein Wille ist Gesetz (19) Die Liebe des van Royk (19) Der Seelenverkäufer (19) Madame Recamier - Des grossen Talma letzte Liebe (20) Die Furcht vor dem Weibe (21) Graf Cohn (23) "Said" - Ein Volk in Ketten (23) Miss Marys Weltreise (24) Aschermittwoch (25) Graf Greif (25) Die glühende Gasse (27) Schwere Jungens - leichte Mädchen (27) Indizienbeweise (28) Leutnant warst Du einst bei den Husaren (30)


 
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