Heinz Rühmann
Birthday: 1902-03-07
Place of Birth: Essen, Germany
Biography: Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (March 7, 1902 – October 3, 1994) was a popular German film actor. Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle (Those Three from the Gas Station) led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor (and sometime singer) throughout the 1930s and early 1940s. He remained in Germany and continued to work during the Nazi period, as did his friend and colleague, Hans Albers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Heinz Rühmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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It Happened in Broad Daylight
The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession....
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The Punch Bowl
Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told hi...
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The Three from the Filling Station
Willy, Kurt and Hans are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then, they all fa...
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The Captain from Kopenick
A young shoemaker is arrested for stealing a small amount of money, and is jailed for fifteen years....
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Faraway, So Close!
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitar...
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Ship of Fools
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that...
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Max der Taschendieb
Max, a small time pick-pocket, has nothing to do with the ‘big’ crimes. But then he must find the mu...
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Charley's Aunt
Otto Dernburg is forced by circumstances to dress up as a middle-aged woman....
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Der eiserne Gustav
Gustav Hartmann is in trouble. Because of the new taxis he doesn't get many passengers in his horse-...
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If the Father and the Son
After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above...
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The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes
Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing...
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Er kanns nicht lassen
Father Brown is only too happy to interfere with the work of the police in solving tricky criminal c...
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Der brave Soldat Schwejk
When the First World War breaks out in 1914, Josef Schwejk, a naive dog dealer in Prague, joins the ...
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Hitler's Hollywood
Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came i...
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Clothes Make the Man
The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut ...
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On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight
After many years on the oceans, sailor Hannes Wedderkamp has finally returned to Hamburg. On St. Pau...
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Mailman Mueller
Postman Titus Müller returns from his daily rounds with a letter that will change the course of his ...
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The Liar
When the wife of Sebastian Schumann left her family, he told his little daughter that her mother has...
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The Black Sheep
Father Brown starts solving crimes, much to the annoyance of his housekeeper, the police and especia...
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Eva, the Factory Girl
A famous racing driver must give up his sport and take over the management of the porcelain factory ...
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The Leghorn Hat
Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner...
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Wer zuletzt küßt...
On the occasion of a charity ball in Vienna a kiss of a famous actress should be auctioned. Misunder...
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The Man Who is Talked About
The Man Who is Talked About is the overly agreeable Toni Mathis (Heinz Ruhmann), a gent constitution...
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We Need No Money
In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Gr...
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Frasquita
Czechoslovakian opera star Jarmila Novotná plays the title role in the Austrian tunefest "Frasquita"...
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13 Chairs
A classical art junk dealer and an almost bankrupt hairdresser who unexpectedly makes an inheritance...
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Heaven on Earth
A poor composer who should buy a property for his ambitious father-in-law finances with the money, n...
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Operation San Pietro
Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and ...
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Dr. med. Hiob Prätorius
Dr. med. Job Prätorius enjoys great popularity among patients, doctors and students alike thanks to ...
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Your Money or Your Life
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdra...
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Der Kapitän
Captain Ebbs is an older, experienced seaman who has, however, only sailed on freighters. While his ...
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Das Liebeskarussell
An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she ...
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Scrounged Meals
Homeless Alfred would like to spend his life on Mallorca. A destination far away. But one day he mee...
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Vater sein dagegen sehr
Margot is looking forward to moving into the old defense tower with her fiancé Lutz, a writer. Then ...
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Bombs Over Monte Carlo
The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from t...
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Not an Evening like any Other
Two competing antique dealers have their shops opposite each other in a small shopping street. The d...
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Laughing Heirs
After the death of his uncle, the owner of the Rhine based Bockelmann Sparkling Wine, Peter turns up...
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Hocuspocus
Kurt Hoffmann's remake of his own 1953 movie based on the play by Curt Goetz....
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Grand Hotel
Based on a book by Vicki Baum, all of the action takes place in one day in a luxury hotel in Berlin....
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Intermediate Landing in Paris
Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies...
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Schäm' dich, Brigitte!
When the mathematics teacher discovers a love letter from his daughter, family father Felix Schneide...
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The Pride of Company Three
The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing ...
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So ein Flegel
The great Dr. Pfeiffer plays the little Primaner Pfeiffer. As the successful playwright Dr. Hans Pfe...
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Quax in Afrika
Quax, a former crash pilot, has now become a skilled pilot who even trains student pilots himself. W...
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Der Mann, der nicht nein sagen konnte
A man takes in three a dog and three runaway girls....
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The Man in Search of His Murderer
A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn a...
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Lumpacivagabundus
The fairies Fortuna and Amorosa make a bet with the devil, in the form of the evil spirit Lumpacivag...
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Der Mustergatte
Heinz Rühmann plays the "model husband" who, when his bored wife threatens to leave him, embarks on ...
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Mein Schulfreund
In the midst of World War II, postman Ludwig Fuchs writes a letter to his former school friend Field...
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The House in Montevideo
A respectable professor inherits a house and money in Montevideo from his wild sister, on the condit...
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Enter Inspector Maigret
After the theft of a priceless Van Gogh from a Parisian museum, Maigret follows his chief suspect to...
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Die Umwege des schönen Karl
Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in...
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Tomfoolery
Best friends David and Philip have to end their love affair with their mistress Aimée which they - n...
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Request Concert
The young, attractive Inge Wagner becomes acquainted with Herbert Koch during the Berlin Olympics, h...
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The Man Who Walked Through the Wall
Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately cri...
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Five Millions Seek an Heir
According to his last will, the rich American uncle of vacuum cleaner salesman Peter Pett only leave...
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The Only Girl
A dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. Durin...
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Burglars
The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in lo...
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Things Are Getting Better Already
The fast-driving daughter of a car manufacturer keeps Berlin's most pricey lawyer busy as she keeps ...
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Another Opera
In this hilarious opera parody, Loriot delivers a comedic take on the pretentiousness of the operati...
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Die Finanzen des Großherzogs
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service...
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If We All Were Angels
Christian Kempenich, a pedantic law firm manager, attends a christening in Cologne, leading to a boo...
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Kleiner Mann ganz groß
Documentary feature about German actor Heinz Rühmann made shortly before his death in 1994....
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The Upright Sinner
Leopold Pichler is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a la...
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Not Afraid of Big Animals
Emil, a technical draftsman, is hardworking, always helpful, and somewhat shy. Because of these trai...
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There Is Only One Love
The chamber singer Sir Henry Godwin and the ballet master Blattner need a vacation....
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Ein Zug nach Manhattan
1952 in a suburb of New York: the pious Leon Sternberger is a cantor in a small Jewish community. On...
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That Can Happen to Anyone
Hugo Brinkmeyer, a tax consultant, takes his wife Gerda out to the cabaret one evening. There he enc...
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Endspurt
The author Peter Ustinov has called his work "Endspurt" a "biographical adventure". Biographical bec...
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Who was Hitler
Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...
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