Reinhold Schünzel
Birthday: 1888-11-07
Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany
Biography: Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite his ancestry, Schünzel was allowed by the Nazis to continue making films for several years until he left in 1937 to live abroad.
Movies
Notorious
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman,...
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Catherine the Great
The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia....
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Hangmen Also Die!
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assass...
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Eerie Tales
A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out....
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Berlin Express
In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt b...
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The 3 Penny Opera
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum withou...
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The Vicious Circle
In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby propertie...
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Madame DuBarry
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the Fr...
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Der chinesische Götze. Das unheimliche Haus. 3. Teil
All is not well in the Mollheim home. The elder Mollheim decides to marry off his daughter with an u...
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Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil
Every Friday the 13th, a member of the Eulenstein family dies. The son of the most recent victim hir...
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Golden Earrings
A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate....
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Hostages
After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers a...
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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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All for Money
Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the rever...
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1914: The Last Days Before the War
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbr...
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Eine Liebesgeschichte
During a New Year's Eve ball, Prussian cavalry officer Jost von Fredersdorff falls in love with Lili...
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Um Krone und Peitsche
Melodrama with the theme of class difference between a Count and the daughter of a ringmaster. They ...
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First Comes Courage
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When...
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Rags and Silk
At the center of this social satire is the wealthy and bored couple Irene and Erik. When Erik meets ...
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The Latest Star from Vaudeville
Stella Orlanda is a young variety artist who can stand her ground like the next man - and not only o...
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Different from the Others
Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial an...
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Hallo Caesar!
Juggler and con-artist Caesar comes to Karlsbad, where he hopes to trick the renowned Vaudeville man...
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Dragonwyck
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be go...
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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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Countess Kitchenmaid
Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum,...
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The Ballet Girl
The new artistic director Dr. Fersen is appointed at the princely court theater in Dillingen. He is ...
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Heaven on Earth
Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low mo...
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Figures of the Night
"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cri...
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Prostitution II
About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business....
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Around the World in 80 Days
Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days....
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The Imaginary Baron
The film follows the comic (mis)adventures of a poor street musician, who is roped into posing as an...
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Lady Hamilton
The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson....
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The Story of a Maid
A young naive country girl moves to Berlin to become a maid for the dubious family of Baron von Birt...
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Blonde Poison
Loni is a femme fatale who lives a depraved life with several lovers. She plunges her husband to rui...
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Flight Around the World
A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yo...
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Wahnsinn
A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches f...
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The Count of Cagliostro
About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure...
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Auf Probe gestellt
Countess Marlene, a young and impoverished widow, is set to marry an old and wealthy count when she ...
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Moriturus
A doctor who cannot figure out what is wrong with his patient refers him to a detective, whom he hop...
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Battle of the Butterflies
Naive 16 year old Rosi paints butterfly pictures and day-dreams of a better world, abhorring the con...
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Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others ...
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The Ball
The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in societ...
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The Last Payment
A beautiful woman of the Latin Quarter, marries a rich cattle owner Pedro Maurez from South America ...
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Frühlingsstürme im Herbste des Lebens
After the death of her father, the young Comtesse von Hagen is taken in by her father's friend, who ...
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Heddas Rache
The brothel mother's illegitimate daughter takes revenge by luring her half-siblings into the brothe...
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Lillis Ehe
Lilli marries Dr. Friese, but when she realizes that he was her mother's lover, tragedy ensues....
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The Hitler Gang
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time...
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