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| Ernst
Deutsch
1890 - 1969 |
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. The actor Ernst Deutsch began his theater career in 1914 at the Viennese Volksbühne and his career led him to the most important German-speaking theaters. His parts distinguished through an intensive, sometimes tremendous performance which predestined Ernst Deutsch for gaunt and evil figures. These parts gave him a reputation as an expressionist actor par excellence. Also in his films he was very successful with his negative leaning characters which got him many roles during the silent movie era. To his most well-known pictures belong "Apokalypse" (18), "Irrungen" (19), "Blondes Gift" (19), "Erpresst" (20), "Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam" (20), "Von Morgens bis Mitternachts (20), "Hannerl und ihre Liebhaber" (21), "Der Kampf ums Ich" (22), "Das alte Gesetz" (23), "Dagfin" (27) and "Artisten" (27). Although his name couldn't be more "German" he was undesirable in his
own country in the 30's because of his Jewish roots. He already left Germany
in 1933 and played at theaters in Vienna and Prague as well as in Zurich
and Brussels.
In the following years he usually impersonated Nazis or officers in
the USA under his pseudonymous Ernest Dorian, among them "The Man I Married"
(40), "So Ends Our Night" (41), "The Prisoner of Japan" (42), "Enemy Agents
Meet Ellery Queen" (42), "Nightplane from Chungking" (43) and "Isle of
the Dead" (45).
Ernst Deutsch returned to Vienna after the war, from 1951 he lived in
Berlin. He appeared only a few time in the post-war film like in "Der Prozess"
(48), "The Third Man - Der dritte Mann" (49), "Nathan der Weise" (55),
"Sebastian Kneipp - Ein grosses Leben" (58) and "Vor Sonnenuntergang" (62).
Other movies with Ernst Deutsch:
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