Nils Asther
Birthday: 1897-01-16
Place of Birth: Copenhagen, Denmark
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 - 13 October 1981) was a Danish-born Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid 1950s, known for his beautiful face and often called "the male Greta Garbo". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over 70 feature films, 16 done in the silent era. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nils Anton Alfhild Asther, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
A Trip to Mars
The navy captain Avanti Planetaros is inspired by his astronomer-father to travel through outer spac...
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Wild Orchids
A prince in J... tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered....
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Carl XII:s kurir
Adjutant general Axel Roos is selected by King Charles XII to deliver a message to the court from th...
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Laugh, Clown, Laugh
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs lea...
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Topsy and Eva
Topsy, a Black slave girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned but nobody will bid. A young girl named Eva...
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The Bitter Tea of General Yen
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai....
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Bluebeard
Young female models are being strangled. Will law enforcement be able to stop the crime wave before ...
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Our Dancing Daughters
A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold-digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie f...
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The Crime Doctor
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and...
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Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
A Columbia Pictures promotional short which explains how a movie is made....
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Submarine Alert
Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an ...
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Love Time
Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie hap...
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When Darkness Falls
Young Elisabeth comes to Västlinge to meet her old relative, the vicar and and his young daughter. S...
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Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day
A variety of predicaments arise to distract Dr. Kildare from his wedding to Nurse Mary Lamont....
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The Feathered Serpent
In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the on...
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The Cardboard Lover
A ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his "cardboard lover"--t...
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The Night of January 16th
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-...
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That Man from Tangier
Mary Ellen travels abroad and ends up marrying a Count while she is intoxicated. The Count disappear...
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Night Monster
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate ma...
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If I Were Free
A recently divorced interior decorator falls in love with a married barrister....
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Mystery Broadcast
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another r...
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Letty Lynton
Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South Ame...
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But the Flesh Is Weak
A poor-but-charming father and son try to enter high society by marrying rich English widows....
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Alaska
A man who has been framed on a murder charge is placed in the custody of a crooked U.S. marshal, who...
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The Cossacks
Stirring romance, hard riding, desperate fighting with the Cossacks playing their game of war and ch...
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The Sea Bat
The sister of a sponge diver killed by a stingray loves an escaped convict posing as a priest....
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The Right To Romance
Against her better judgment, a dedicated and hard-working plastic surgeon (Ann Harding) finds hersel...
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The Man in Half Moon Street
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process....
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Abdul the Damned
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by t...
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Guilty Melody
A British spy falls in love with a singer whose husband is working for the enemy....
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The Marriage of Corbal
The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played b...
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The Gyurkovics Boys
Mr. and Mrs. Gyurkovics have a dozen children the oldest of which, the twins Géza and Bandi, just pr...
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The Washington Masquerade
An honest, talented and well respected attorney defeats a corrupt incumbent U.S. Senator. After a ve...
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Sweater Girl
College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together th...
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Storm at Daybreak
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of...
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The Hour Before the Dawn
A beautiful Austrian refugee in England--who is also a Nazi agent--marries a scholarly English pacif...
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Do You Remember?
Compilation film with scenes from different Swedish silent films, many of the films have since been ...
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The Blue Danube
Marguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, a...
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Dream of Love
A duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, t...
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Make-Up
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde...
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Forced Landing
On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military offic...
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Love, Honor and Goodbye
A lawyer's wife walks out on him, then poses as a French nurse to spy on him....
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The Golden Butterfly
A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dan...
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Flying Blind
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in...
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Sorrell and Son
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband a...
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Loves of an Actress
Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influenti...
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Son of Lassie
Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mother...
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Madame Spy
Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigne...
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The Wings
The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisex...
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Lady in White
A ghost called Vita Frun (White Lady) is accused of several murders. Detective Hillman is contacted ...
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The Man Who Lost Himself
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds...
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The Norrtull Gang
A collective of office girls and their tribulations in the male world, female solidarity, the place ...
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Wrath of the Seas
The film portrays the Imperial German Navy during the First World War, particularly the Battle of Ju...
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Svenska Floyd
The world-famous Swedish boxer Flosse travels to Italy to fight for the world boxing title. In Rome ...
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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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Love's Crucible
At the end of the middle ages, Ursula is accused of having poisoned her own husband. She claims she ...
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Retten sejrer
A man must choose between two women. One who is bad for him and one who is the opposite. About the f...
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The Sweet Girl
The Sweet Girl (German: Das Süße Mädel) is a 1926 German silent film directed by Manfred Noa....
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