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Richard Alexander

Richard Alexander

1852 - 1923

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The actor Richard Alexander was born as Richard Krähahn in Berlin. After finishing school, he initially chose the profession of a merchant.
Since his interest in theater was already great at that time, he decided to take the step into the performing arts and he took acting lessons with Wilhelm Hock.

On April 28, 1873, he made his stage debut in the play "Judith" at the Berlin Residenztheater.
In the following years he acted on stages in Potsdam, Hamburg, Stettin, Nuremberg, Munich and Vienna.

In 1891 he returned to the Residenztheater in Berlin, where he not only acted but also became its director in 1904.
An unintentionally comical situation arose in Richard Alexander's life when he suffered a nervous shock in 1904 when an actor missed a cue.
While he was sent to a spa to recuperate, a rumor arose that he had gone mad and thrown himself into the sea. When he heard about it, he wrote a telegram saying that he preferred to be buried in Berlin and therefore he would transfer himself there immediately.

At the end of his career, Richard Alexander also appeared in a few silent films.
His first appearance in front of the camera was for the productions "Papas Junge" (19) and "Der Raub der Sabinerinnen" (19).

At the beginning of the 20's followed his last cinematical works with "Freie Bahn dem Tüchtigen" (21), "Das Kind der Diva" (21) and "Es bleibt in der Familie" (22).

 
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