Willy Fritsch
Birthday: 1901-01-27
Place of Birth: Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland]
Biography: Willy Fritsch war der bekannteste deutsche Schauspieler neben Hans Albers und Heinz Rühmann in den vierziger Jahren, er drehte mehrere Filme mit Lillian Harvey bis diese nach Frankreich emigrierte Er ist der Vater des Schauspielers Thomas Fritsch
Movies
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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Woman in the Moon
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's to...
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A Mad Idea
A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle i...
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Docks of Hamburg
When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ord...
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When the White Lilacs Bloom Again
Married couple Willy and Therese go separate ways. Willy leaves town and returns years later as a fa...
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Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds
Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to o...
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Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz
A young woman tries to hinder her sister from committing adultery - by wooing the man she thinks is ...
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At the Order of the Czar
Carolyn de Sayn was married at the age of sixteen, against her will, to the Prince of Wittgenstein, ...
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The Congress Dances
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Mettern...
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I Learned It from Father
Clemens Andermann, once a celebrated stage and film star, now an equally successful industrialist, i...
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Lucky Kids
After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her...
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I by Day, You by Night
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. Th...
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Crazy Otto
A wannabe revue dancer meets a man she thinks is the revue's impresario, and mistaken identities lea...
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A Blonde Dream
Rival window cleaners Willy I and Willy 2 befriend Jou-Jou, an aspiring dancer, who has been tricked...
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Vienna Blood
Young Count Georg Wolkersheim is sent to the Congress of Vienna to represent the interests of his co...
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Wo die alten Wälder rauschen
Not even on vacation does building tycoon Harald Rehm (Willy Fritsch) look after his son Nils. He wo...
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Three from the Gasoline Station
Robert, Peter and Fritz are the best of friends ... and hopelessly broke. But they don't let that st...
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Waltz War
The quarrel between the waltz king Joseph Lanner and his still unknown violinist Johann Strauss. It ...
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The Song of the Don Cossacks
After the death of his Russian mother, nine-year-old orphan Peter lives with Professor Hartmann and ...
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Isola Bella
Consul daughter Anne Stülcken wants to take her fiancee undetected under the magnifying glass and th...
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Junge Adler
Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won ...
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Die Geliebte
A love story between officer von Warp coming from a wealthy family and salesgirl Therese. When the s...
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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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Film Without Title
A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer....
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Die Fledermaus
Theater director Falke, dressed as a bat, ends up in prison after a merry carnival night. Director F...
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Women Are Better Diplomats
A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through...
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The Heath Is Green
After the end of World War II Lüder Lüdersen, the former owner of a feudal estate in the East, and h...
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Hubertusjagd
The young Monika Dahlhoff returns from the USA after two years. As soon as she arrives, she learns t...
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Hokuspokus
Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy ...
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A Prussian Love Story
The film depicts the love affair between William I and Elisa Radziwill....
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The Bellboy and the Playgirls
A re-edited U.S. release of the 1958 West German film Mit Eva fing die Sünde an (Sin Began with Eve)...
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Seven Slaps
William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsib...
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The Cheeky Devil
Adaptation of a French comedy, set in Paris, in which a lecherous man sets his sights on a beautiful...
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Hungarian Rhapsody
On the plains of Hungary, Franz, a Hussard lieutenant, broods about his future; Born into an aristoc...
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In the Employ of the Secret Service
During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its exp...
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Boccaccio
The residents of the town of Ferrara are swept up in a tide of emotion and physical passion by the w...
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Attack on Baku
Azerbaijan, 1919. The British hope to secure control of the vast oil fields around Baku by launching...
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Black Roses
Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the...
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Woman at the Wheel
Maria Kelemen is a secretary in the office of a bank in Budapest. Her boss, director Borden, courts ...
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Sweetheart of the Gods
Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances...
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Das leichte Mädchen
Dietz' relatives are horrified to discover that Dietz, the son of a wealthy merchant, is planning to...
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Zwei Herzen im Mai
The musician Peter Paul Müller (Dieter Borsche) lives for his job. So much so that he also forgets t...
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Gewitterflug zu Claudia
Lufthansa captain Hans Droste is friends with English pilot William Crossley, who saved his life dur...
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Am seidenen Faden
A WWI veteran comes home and with a scientist's help opens an artificial silk factory later used for...
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Leichte Muse
A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life....
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Mädchen mit Beziehungen
An unemployed engineer who does not want his fiancee to protect him has accidentally insulted his fu...
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Schatten der Nacht
Elga's life with Magnus, her husband, would be a happy one if Struwe, her former lover, had not resu...
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The Waltz Dream
Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptatio...
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Kätchen für alles
A young actress, dismissed as untalented by a famous and admired mime, takes revenge for the insult ...
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A Prince's Young Love
Period romance set in Bismarck's Second Empire about a nobleman who wants to marry the daughter of a...
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Liebe ist ja nur ein Märchen
A young pianist who has just passed her final exam in Germany visits her father and her childhood fr...
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Von Liebe reden wir später
The beautician Angela Bell, a well-off middle-aged lady, and the respected fashion doctor Prof. Chri...
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Spies
The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lad...
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Cairo Season
Comedy with an Egyptian backdrop: Businessman Tobby and the Countess Stafanie wish to take all the ...
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Adventure in Rio
A remake of the 1940 film of the same title. It was shot on location in Brazil with separate German ...
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Die Insel
A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily t...
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Hungarian Rhapsody
1847. Franz Liszt meets the beautiful princess Caroline von Sayn-Wittgenstein in Kiev. The two fall ...
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König für eine Nacht
Count Lerchenbach, the King's Adjutant, changes places with his master, King Ludwig I, in a romantic...
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Finale
The fate of a pianist who returns from the Second World War with a wound to his right hand....
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Melody of the Heart
A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long...
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A Sister of Six
The young Tony will travel from Budapest to the countryside to marry his cousin Katinka, the oldest ...
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Her Grace Commands
An emancipated Princess, who has just returned home to her court in the Balkans from England, goes i...
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Die Gattin
Puck Niklas (Jenny Jugo) loves her husband Peter even though her brother thinks he's a no-good. She'...
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The Chaste Susanne
Naughty Susanne leads an exciting double life between her hometown and Paris: in the provincial nest...
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Schuldig
"Guilty" - Thomas Feld returns home after 16 years in prison to find his wife Magda and daughter Mar...
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His Late Excellency
In the Ruritanian kingdom of Leuchtenstein, the old ruler has just died. His subjects are a bunch of...
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Her Dark Spot
When registering in a Berlin hotel, the beautiful Lilian realizes that she apparently has a doppelga...
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Miss Venus
Maud Goodin is the daughter of a millionaire, content with her present life, but she is an interesti...
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The Three from the Filling Station
Three young men working at a filling station fall in love with the same woman....
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His Wife, the Unknown
A war blind painter marries his nurse. But after he can see again through an operation, he does not ...
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The Girl with a Patron
The Girl with a Patron (German: Das Mädchen mit der Protektion) is a 1925 German silent comedy film ...
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Derby
A young horse lover falls in love with the handsome vet who looks after a special racehorse. But bef...
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