Paul Weigel

Paul Weigel

Birthday: 1867-02-17

Place of Birth: Halle an der Saale, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]

Biography: German born Paul Weigel was an actor in American movies. He is perhaps best remembered for his performances in For Heaven's Sake (1926), The Invisible Ray (1936), and The Great Dictator (1940).

Movies

The Great Dictator
The Great Dictator

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu...

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The Red Lane
The Red Lane

After returning home from years spent in a convent, Marie Beaulieu, is shocked to discover that her ...

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The Breath of the Gods
The Breath of the Gods

While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets an...

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Naked Hearts
Naked Hearts

Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Ma...

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The Inner Shrine
The Inner Shrine

Bad woman turns good, but as a recent widow finds her past a roadblock in terms of accepting remarri...

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The Only Road
The Only Road

Tomboy Nita, a vegetable seller in a small Californian town, believes herself to be the daughter of ...

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Forbidden Paths
Forbidden Paths

Sato (Sessue Hayakawa) faithfully works for importer James Thornton (James Neill). When the old man ...

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Folly of Vanity
Folly of Vanity

This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was d...

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Luck in Pawn
Luck in Pawn

Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her ...

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Up and Going
Up and Going

In Up and Going, based on Mix's own story, Arctic Trails, the star played a titled, polo playing Nor...

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For Heaven's Sake
For Heaven's Sake

An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown min...

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Bewitched
Bewitched

A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality....

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Blonde or Brunette
Blonde or Brunette

Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage....

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Joan of Paris
Joan of Paris

An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact t...

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Déclassé
Déclassé

The last of the impetuous Varicks, Lady Helen Haden is married to Sir Bruce Haden, a brute who treat...

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The Vanishing Legion
The Vanishing Legion

A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Co...

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Under Crimson Skies
Under Crimson Skies

The captain of a sailing ship has an affair with the wife of one of his passengers, and gets mixed u...

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Broken Lullaby
Broken Lullaby

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, lik...

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Joy Tonic
Joy Tonic

"Big Boy" goes on a fun rampage in this Jack White production...

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Evangeline
Evangeline

In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their weddi...

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Just My Luck
Just My Luck

Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formul...

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The Black Wolf
The Black Wolf

In the Spanish Mountains, the Black Wolf, a bandit, reigns at the head of his band, known as "The Ch...

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The Bond Between
The Bond Between

Pierre Duval is a night watchman at a museum of art who dotes on his art student son, Jacques. One e...

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The Boudoir Diplomat
The Boudoir Diplomat

The ambassador of the Kingdom of Luvaria orders Baron Belmar, his attaché, to win the interest of Mo...

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Mademoiselle Midnight
Mademoiselle Midnight

Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her reckles...

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Miss V from Moscow
Miss V from Moscow

Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noe...

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I'll Tell the World
I'll Tell the World

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. Mo...

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One More Spring
One More Spring

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on th...

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Sutter's Gold
Sutter's Gold

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush....

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The Moon Is Down
The Moon Is Down

The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a J...

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Back Street
Back Street

A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets...

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Code of the Air
Code of the Air

A criminal mastermind uses a "death ray" machine to bring down government airplanes. Police dog, Sil...

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Never Say Die
Never Say Die

Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. M...

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Ninotchka
Ninotchka

A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who repres...

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Dracula's Daughter
Dracula's Daughter

A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings....

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Which Shall It Be?
Which Shall It Be?

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Espionage
Espionage

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours...

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Kismet
Kismet

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to r...

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Happy Land
Happy Land

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist beli...

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A Dispatch from Reuters
A Dispatch from Reuters

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age...

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A Lover's Oath
A Lover's Oath

"The plot introduces Omar as a leader of his people but deals rather with the love of his nephew, Be...

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The She-Devil
The She-Devil

Secretly engaged to Bernice, Albert becomes infatuated with the gypsy Mina. The rich and jealous Ren...

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Hidden Aces
Hidden Aces

Larry 'Hutch' Hutchdale, gentleman thief, is keeping an eye on the newly-arrived Princess Orloff of ...

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The Miracle Woman
The Miracle Woman

After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a p...

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The Costume Falls
The Costume Falls

This is the German-language version of 1930's "The Way of All Men", shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywoo...

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The Invisible Ray
The Invisible Ray

Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But th...

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I Wake Up Screaming
I Wake Up Screaming

A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitre...

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Skyscraper
Skyscraper

Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves ...

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Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Bluebeard's 8th Wife

John Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when...

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Above Suspicion
Above Suspicion

Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe....

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Soft Shoes
Soft Shoes

Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, ...

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Her Body in Bond
Her Body in Bond

The cabaret act of husband-and-wife dancing team Peggy and Joe Blondin is broken up when Joe becomes...

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Isle of Lost Men
Isle of Lost Men

The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story ...

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Bag and Baggage
Bag and Baggage

Country girl Hope Anthony follows Hal Tracy to the city, where she becomes involved in a jewel theft...

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Soul of the Slums
Soul of the Slums

A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his s...

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's ...

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The Intrigue
The Intrigue

A sci-fi/espionage film in which world powers vie for control of a death ray during World War I as a...

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Reunion in France
Reunion in France

Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed ...

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Happiness À La Mode
Happiness À La Mode

Easygoing Barbara Townsend is never jealous and allows her husband, Richard (Harrison Ford), to come...

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Excuse Me
Excuse Me

A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them....

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The Leatherneck
The Leatherneck

A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win...

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The Gold Racket
The Gold Racket

At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gan...

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A Master Stroke
A Master Stroke

Yale graduate, Yale Durant, facing financial ruin and contemplating suicide, discovers his fiancée's...

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The Winning of Sally Temple
The Winning of Sally Temple

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Each to His Kind
Each to His Kind

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Witchcraft
Witchcraft

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Each Pearl a Tear
Each Pearl a Tear

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Honor Among Men
Honor Among Men

Prince Kaloney, while attempting to incite the people of Messina to reinstate their deposed king, is...

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The Trial of Mary Dugan
The Trial of Mary Dugan

Alternate language version of "The Trial of Mary Dugan" (1929). Has Mary Dugan stabbed her rich suga...

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Broadway After Midnight
Broadway After Midnight

To protect her brother, a nightclub entertainer Queenie Morgan marries a gangster. She bears a resem...

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The Verdict
The Verdict

Carol Kingsley and Jimmy Mason, who are both employed in a fashion emporium run by Pierre Ronsard, f...

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Merely Mary Ann
Merely Mary Ann

An orphan girl named Mary Ann falls for a poverty-stricken composer named John Lonsdale....

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They Shall Pay
They Shall Pay

Margaret Seldon's father, who has been victimized by three business associates and sent to prison, c...

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The Fatal Mistake
The Fatal Mistake

After being fired from his job on the Evening Star newspaper, cub reporter Jack Darwin (William Fair...

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The Parisian Tigress
The Parisian Tigress

The invalid Count de Suchet, nearing death, tells his friend, artist Henri Dutray, about the tragic ...

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Neighbors' Wives
Neighbors' Wives

A young woman tries to break up a budding romance between her sweet but naive young sister-in-law an...

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