Joseph Egger
Also Known As: Йозеф Эггер, Josef Egger
Biography: Joseph Egger, also known as Josef Egger, (22 February 1889 – 29 August 1966) was an Austrian character actor who appeared in 76 films between 1935 and 1965. The 18-year-old Egger started his stage career at the Leoben theatre. During the following decades, he also appeared at the Raimund Theater in Vienna and at the Deutsches Theater in Munich. Besides acting Egger was a well-known music hall comedian, and he was famous for doing "tricks" with his beard. He received his first film offers during the 1930s and specialized on portraying eccentric old men in supporting roles. During the 1950s, he appeared in comedic roles in numerous Austrian Heimatfilms of that era. Internationally, Egger appeared as a character actor in the first two films of the Sergio Leone western "Dollars Trilogy": As the coffin-builder in A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and as the Prophet in his final film appearance For a Few Dollars More (1965). Source: Article "Joseph Egger" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Donawitz, Styria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Birthday: February 21, 1889
Deathday: August 29, 1966
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Gender: Male
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Weißer Holunder
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Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-08-29
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Mikosch im Geheimdienst
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-02-27
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The White Horse Inn
Overview: Leopold, head waiter at the "Weißen Rössl" (White Horse Inn), is secretly in love with the owner of the restaurant, Josepha. But she's only interested in the lawyer Dr. Siedler. Jealous, Leopold comes up with a plan to gain Josepha's attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-20
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Der Herr Kanzleirat
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1948-05-21
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Der Seelenbräu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-04-14
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Wehe, wenn sie losgelassen
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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The Model Boy
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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Im schwarzen Rössl
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Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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Liebesgrüße aus Tirol
Overview: Dr. Stefan Burger wants to take over the management of a home for children. Together with Rena he gets involved in a small scam.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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Der Hofrat Geiger
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1947-12-17
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Der schönste Tag meines Lebens
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-09-27
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Das alte Försterhaus
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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Ein Ferienbett mit 100 PS
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-02-26
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Das Erbe vom Pruggerhof
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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Lifeguard in the women's bathroom
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-03-15
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Tanze mit mir in den Morgen
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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Die Wirtin von Maria Wörth
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-11-28
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Vater macht Karriere
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-02-26
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Tanz ins Glück
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-10-19
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Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-10-23
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Trip Acquaintance
Overview: A nervous private investigator, his bumbling boss, a woman in love, 10,000 Reichsmark and two reversed cases. A crime comedy directed by E. W. Emo.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-10-07
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… und du mein Schatz bleibst hier
Overview: Instead of attending seminars and lectures at the University of World Trade, Peter Baumann prefers to work exclusively in the student orchestra. With his friends Hans, Tommy, Udo, Gus and Max, he tries so far in vain to get a recording contract or at least an audition in the Wiener Stadthalle.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-07-05
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Columbus Discovers Kraehwinkel
Overview: Two GIs haven fallen in love with "Fräuleins", decide to stay in Germany and open a typically American drugstore in the center of the small town where their girlfriends live.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-08-09
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Die Perle von Tokay
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-02-05
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Sooo nicht, meine Herren
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-10-17
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Verklungenes Wien
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-08-28
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Hochzeit im Heu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-01-11
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The White Horse Inn
Overview: Im weißen Rößl (English title: White Horse Inn or The White Horse Inn) is an operetta or musical comedy by Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz in collaboration with a number of other composers and writers, set in the picturesque Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria. It is about the head waiter of the White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang who is desperately in love with the owner of the inn, a resolute young woman who at first only has eyes for one of her regular guests.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-12-06
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Liebe, Sommer und Musik
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-10-10
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Gruß und Kuss aus der Wachau
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-02-20
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Eine Nacht in Venedig
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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Wo die Lerche singt
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Genres: Drama Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-11-29
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Conquerors of Arkansas
Overview: Based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, the film, set entirely in the state of Arkansas, tells of the conflict of interests between the local townspeople and homesteaders on the surrounding land, miners arriving during the gold rush, cowboys and cattle thieves who cause problems in the area, and the native tribes of the region. Two adventurers arrive in town and try to restore peace to it and its inhabitants.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-11-19
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Die Fledermaus
Overview: Produced in 1944, finished and released in 1946.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1946-08-16
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Die Fischerin vom Bodensee
Overview: Maria lives with her grandfather in a secluded fishing hut on Lake Constance where they barely survive on what the fishing grounds provide. The daughters from next door make things worse by scaring away the fish with their motorboat. But Hans, the son of a rich family, falls in love with Maria and tries to help her, although she is unsure if he can be trusted.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-07-24
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Das singende Hotel
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-07-29
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Hoch klingt der Radetzkymarsch
Overview: In the Vienna of the Biedermeier era, the young Carl makes a delicate wager with two officers: If he does not succeed in presenting a new romantic adventure by the next day, he has to treat the soldiers to ten bottles of sparkling wine. Albeit he tries in vain to seduce the pretty maid Franzi, Carl brags about his alleged conquest the next day in his favourite pub. When the senior lieutenant Stephan, who is head over heels in love with Franzi, hears about Carl’s putative success, he writes, out of his lovelornness, a catchy song about the carefree maids of Vienna. The song becomes the talk of the town — but the Viennese maids are so disgruntled about the earworm that they go on strike in protest at the grand Radetzky ball…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-09-19
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Siebenmal in der Woche
Overview: The famous singer Roberto Ricci wants to save himself from his overly intrusive female fans with a fake marriage. Mr. Praxl from the marriage institute Eros finds him his own granddaughter Gertie, who works as a waitress and wants to finance her own singing and dancing career with the fee for the role of his wife. To comply with Mr. Ricci's wishes, the attractive Gertie disguises herself as a wallflower with her hair pinned up and high-necked dresses. The act has the desired effect on Roberto's female followers. Over time, however, Gertie and Roberto actually fall in love with each other, which sparks the jealousy of Roberto's stage partner Loretta. With the help of Füllkrug, she tries to thwart the budding romance.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-08-09
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Das Ferienkind
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-04-22
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In Munich stands a Hofbäuhaus
Overview: Berlin tongue encounters Munich lifestyle. A comedy around Oktoberfest. Movies, FRG, 1951 Fita Benkhoff, Paul Kemp, Liesl Karlstadt, etc. A Berlin producer of nerve healing, vitamin-enriched and expanding its life-prolonging lemonade stand in front of all the Schottenhammel at the Oktoberfest on - under the slogan helps Berlin Munich: an intolerable provocation. And then come the Saxons ... Turbulent comedy about beer, Oktoberfest and a lot of originals from Germany!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-01-21
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Black Eagle of Santa Fe
Overview: When Comanches go on the warpath, settlers take refuge in Ft. Eagle Rock commanded by Capt. Jackson. Undercover agent Cliff McPherson arrives at the undermanned fort to lend advice and support. He learns that the Comanches have been stirred up by local rancher Morton who wants to take control of the oil under the Indians' reservation.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-03-11
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Die Wirtin an der Lahn
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-09-19
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Valentins Sündenfall
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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Die Verjüngungskur
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-07-13
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Musik in Salzburg
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1944-09-08
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Das haben die Mädchen gern
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-01-23
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Melody Beyond Love
Overview: Marlene Roedern is a student at the Salzburg Mozarteum, as is her boyfriend, Hans Hellmer, a promising conductor. Strothoff, a government cultural representative, engages Hans to conduct at Hamburg. While in Salzburg, Strothoff meets Marlene, who works as a tourist guide in order to pay her tuition fees. He hires her for an all-night tour of the city. She becomes infatuated with him and he with her. Hans is not happy about this.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-07-14
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A Fistful of Dollars
Overview: The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-12
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For a Few Dollars More
Overview: Two bounty hunters both pursue a brutal and sadistic bandit El Indio who has a massive bounty on his head.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-18
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Rauschende Melodien
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-05-19
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Frühling auf dem Eis
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-02-10
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Das Herz einer Frau
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Genres: Drama Family Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-08-17
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Seesterne
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-12-23
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Christine
Overview: Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the Baron von Eggersdorf provokes a duel with Lobheiner. But the former is no longer a real threat to the Baron. Lobheiner is now passionately in love with Christine. How will this love quartet end?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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Der Bauerndoktor von Bayrischzell
Overview: In spite of his blustering manner and his refusal to listen to what the patients have to say, Dr. Doppelsieder is highly respected in the Upper Bavarian town of Bayrischzell, because he (almost) always has the right remedy and effective advice ready for the sick. The only person he can't help is Pfundtner, the rich Guldenhof farmer. He wants a remedy that, after seven daughters, will finally help him and his wife to the longed-for farm inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-07-31
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