Paul Graetz
Birthday: 1890-07-02
Place of Birth: Glogów, Poland
Biography: Paul Graetz was German-born comedian and actor of Jewish ancestry. He was born in Glogau, Schlesia (today Głogów in Poland) in 1890, and was very active on stage and in German cinema from 1911 to 1932. When the Nazis came to power in February 1933, he fled to the United Kingdom, where he learned English and had roles in several films. He continued to Hollywood at the end of 1935, where he only had a couple of roles in B movies before dying in 1937 at the age of 46.
Movies
King Fu's yellow house
When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who re...
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The Wildcat
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits,...
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Mary
When actress Mary Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence point...
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Dr. Wislizenus
Deep in the forest lives the bitter Dr. Wislizenus, whose childhood sweetheart Maria committed suici...
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Isle of Fury
An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man....
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Bengal Tiger
After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone....
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Vienna, City of Song
Steffi is in love with the unemployed musician Pepi. Still, her father the musical instrument retail...
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Murder at Monte Carlo
A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo ...
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Red Wagon
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan ...
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Blossom Time
World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on...
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Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to ...
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Mountains on Fire
Two of Germany's best and busiest directors collaborated on Berge in Flammen (Mountain in Flames). ...
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The Great Leap
A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing o...
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Moral
When a travelling troupe threatens to unleash a saucy Berlin revue on the provincial town of Emilsbu...
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Bulldog Jack
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket play...
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Heart's Desire
Richard Tauber, the great Austrian tenor, features in the story of a singing peasant from a Vienna b...
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The Scotland Yard Mystery
A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare ...
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Sumurun
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunc...
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Mimi
A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspirati...
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The Fight for the Matterhorn
Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama f...
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18 Minutes
A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall s...
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Jew Süss
A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by L...
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Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Lord Ernest Clifton lives with his beautiful wife, Gladys, at Easton Lodge. He has lost immense weal...
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Auferstehung. Katjuscha Maslowa
A nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that s...
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The Double Murder of Sarajevo
A dramatization of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand....
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