Harry Piel
Also Known As: Harry Peel, هاري بيل (ممثل), Гарри Пиль
Biography: Harry Piel, born Heinrich Piel, was a prolific German actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer who was involved in over 150 films. In Berlin 1912 he created the Art Film Publishing House Company and made, as a director, screenwriter and producer, his first feature "Black Blood" (1912) with Curt Goetz in the lead role. Further films followed, based on adventure and action.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Benrath, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: July 12, 1892
Age: 132 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 27, 1963
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Die Mitternachts-Taxe
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-03-15
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Sein bester Freund
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-10-22
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Tiger's Claw
Overview: Jonny Wilken is an ageing lion trainer in a circus. He is in love with his younger colleague Jutta Sarris. On her wedding day, Jutta's favorite Bengal tiger attacks her out of jealousy and kills her. Jonny, full of pain and out of revenge, enters the cage to kill the animal with his bare hands. However, the tiger bows to him without any resistance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-01-11
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Panik
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Genres: Adventure Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-02-23
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An Invisible Man Goes Through the City
Overview: A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An inventive comedy.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-09-28
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90 Minuten Aufenthalt
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-09-24
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Artisten
Overview: A Harry Piel adventure in the circus milieu: the famous artist Harry trains with the young Hella Stoll, whom he has been raising after the accidental death of her parents. In the interim, now grown up Hella has secretly fallen in love with Harry, but, for the moment, he only has eyes for the seductive Vera Leander. Only a serious accident, which has almost cost Harry his life, brings him back to his senses. Unhappy Hella, however, has already left the circus. Searching for her, Harry has to battle a wild elephant and bring a criminal to justice. But finally, he finds Hella and can admit to his love for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-03-12
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Der Dschungel ruft
Overview: Rich American Dina Morris and her New York friends sail through the Indian Ocean on a yacht. When the ship suffers a machine damage near the coast, it is decided to go ashore.
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-01-16
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Der Mann im Sattel
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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Das Gefängnis auf dem Meeresgrund
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-11-03
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Shadows of the Underworld
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-04-26
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Die Welt ohne Maske
Overview: Harry Piel
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-03-09
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Bobby goes off
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-03
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Jonny Steals Europe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-07-14
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Sprung in den Abgrund
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-29
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The Ship Without a Harbor
Overview: Klaus Hansen is a Sea Police, patrolling on the German North Sea coast. Having just married the singer Kitty Korff, the couple goes on honeymoon. But there is a ghost ship bothering him.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-12-25
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The impossible Mr. Pitt
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-04-15
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Elephant Fury
Overview: German big game hunter brings elephants back from Africa safely through enemy lines, but they go on a stampede in Berlin. Filming began during WWII in Germany, but production was stopped because story showed Third Reich police and military having problems coping with an elephant stampede; after the War, it got completed by its originator, and exported to the US with English dubbed, while removing all references to its 1940s German origins!
Genres: Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-10-12
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Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-12-23
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Menschen im Feuer
Overview: Harry Peltzer, who is passionate about his job as a firefighter, and his superior, fire chief Paul Körner, are the best of friends. This changes the day they both meet Nelly, a young, blonde cashier at a vending machine buffet, on whom both men immediately set their eyes. As Harry has a much better chance with Nelly, Paul's friendship with him soon turns into bitter antagonism, if not outright enmity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-31
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Rivals
Overview: Using his marauding robot and other futuristic weapons, power-crazed scientist Professor Ravello carries out various plots to win the hand of Evelyn away from her true love Harry Peel.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-02-23
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His Best Friend
Overview: Remake of a 1929 German film by the same title about a man and a police dog.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Him or Me
Overview: Prince Valona has a bit of trouble with his girlfriend Eveline (Olivia Fried), so he's quite open for the attraction of a young lady he meets by chance (Valerie Boothby). He doesn't know, however, that this lady is a detective who follows the con-man Carlo Moreno, and as the prince and the criminal look alike, she mistakes the prince for the criminal. The real Moreno isn't far away, though, and he first deprives the prince of his train ticket and then also takes on his identity in order to steal a pearl necklace from Eveline.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-11-27
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Die große Wette
Overview: A german silent sci-fi movie by Harry Piel
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1916-01-11
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Attention Harry! Open eyes!
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Genres: Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-09-13
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His Greatest Bluff
Overview: His Greatest Bluff is a German silent comedy film. Today, the film is best known for the early role it offered to Marlene Dietrich who was only cast after great effort by her agents.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-05-04
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Männer ohne Beruf
Overview: A police deputy in Paris have a lead on an international gang into trafficking. The police dresses as a steward to tail the head of the gang to Marseille. On the ship he meets with Madeleine. A girl controlled by the traffickers.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-08-14
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Man Against Man
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-09-23
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Secret Agent
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-18
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The Man Without Nerves
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-12-05
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Das verschwundene Haus
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-02-24
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Swifter than Death
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-04-10
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Rätsel einer Nacht
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-10-12
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Danger! car thieves!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-06-04
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Seine stärkste Waffe
Overview: "His Best Force" - Harry Petersen has just made a big invention: the lamp without electrical supply. In American businessman Al Kinley, Harry hopes to find a financier for his idea, but Kinley does not show any interest.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-24
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What's Going on in Beely Circus?
Overview: Harry Piel plays Harry Peel who receives an urgent telephone call from a friend who has returned from South America recently. The call is being made from the circus "Beely" and our hero arrives there too late to prevent the murder of his friend. Now Harry must find his friend's killer and go on a strange mission involving a hidden document.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-01-14
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Der Reiter ohne Kopf, 1. Teil - Die Todesfalle
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-03-24
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Adventure of a night
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-06-01
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Menschen und Masken, 1. Teil - Der falsche Emir
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-04
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Über den Wolken
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-02-19
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Das schwarze Kuvert
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1922-05-19
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Der Reiter ohne Kopf, 3. Teil - Harry Piels schwerster Sieg
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-04-12
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Der Reiter ohne Kopf, 2. Teil - Die geheimnisvolle Macht
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1921-04-08
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Zigano
Overview: Filmarchiv Austria holds a non-access master print and a nitrate duplicate negative of the film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-07-27
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Abenteuer im Nachtexpreß
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-12-25
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Sein gefährlichstes Spiel
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Shallow Shadows
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Dangerous Paths
Overview: DANGEROUS PATHS marked the beginning of Henrik Galeen’s collaboration with Piel, which by 1931 had comprised a total of five films. The present film offers the opportunity to see screenwriter Galeen in front of the camera as the super-rich American Francis. The journeyman carpenter Harry is bewitched by Francis’s daughter Dorothy, whom he has to rescue from the clutches of dangerous hoodlums. The gang is also trying to steal the crown of a prince. Thus Harry finds himself in a sophisticated adventure that features spectacular nature shots (filmed in the Alps).
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-06-10
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Der schwarze Pierrot
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-05-31
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Der Verächter des Todes
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1920-10-29
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