Walter Steinbeck
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Niederlößnitz, Germany
Birthday: September 26, 1878
Deathday: August 27, 1942
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Five from the Jazzband
Overview: By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”. Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music and it doesn’t help that all four musicians are in love with her. Jessie doesn’t reciprocate their feelings, because she has a thing for Martin. Unfortunately, Martin believes that Jessie stole his car … and so, right before the premiere at the cabaret, she ends up in jail.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-03-19
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Ein harmloser Fall
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-06-07
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Hochzeit auf Bärenhof
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1942-06-08
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Marriage with Limited Liability
Overview: Though "blessed" with a complex title, which translates as Marriage with Limited Liability, this German comedy was adapted from the more simply titled stage play Causa Kaiser. Composer Georg Kaiser is unable to secure a divorce from his wife, so he "lives in sin" with his singer-sweetheart Causa. The girl's wealthy uncle dies, leaving her millions -- provided she is married to Georg Kaiser. Hoping to take advantage of a legal loophole, Georg seeks out another man named George Kaiser, intending to marry him off to Causa so that she can collect her legacy. Georg Kaiser # 2 is a middle-aged naif who can't understand why his new bride is so cold to him. When he finds out he's been duped by Kaiser #1, Kaiser #2 finds solace in the arms of another woman closer to his own age, which somehow leads to a happy ending for all concerned.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Winter Night's Dream
Overview: The wintry mountainscapes of Bavaria provide the backdrop for this airy German comedy. The story is set in motion when young clerk Boenecke (Richard Romanowsky) accidentally delivers a check to the wrong bank. Boenecke's boss Schumann (Walter Steinbeck) suspects the clerk of embezzlement -- especially since our hero has taken off on an extended Alpine vacation with his sweetheart Hilde (Magda Schneider). Before this comic chain reaction can be straightened out, hero and heroine have become entangled with a gang of female pickpockets. Essentially a "moonlight and strudel" confection, Winterachtstraum was perfect escapist entertainment for Magda Schneider's legions of fans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-02-13
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I Go Out and You Stay Here
Overview: Weimar era screwball comedy about a floor model who is required to go out evenings to escort VIPs while her boyfriend has to wait at home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-04-09
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Der große Bluff
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-02-02
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A Tremendously Rich Man
Overview: A man swallows a diamond - and suddenly all people around him change their attitude towards him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-13
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Der Film von der Königin Luise - 1. Abteilung: Die Märtyrerin auf dem Königsthron
Overview: In this three part recreation of the life of Queen Louise of Prussia specific historical moments ,such as her meeting her future spouse, are presented tableaux style with the exact dates noted and often in the authentic settings.
Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1913-03-24
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Der Film von der Königin Luise - 3. Abteilung: Die Königin der Schmerzen
Overview: In her last years, Louise is truly the Queen of Sorrows as she presides over a humiliating armistice with the French invaders.
Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1913-03-21
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Der Film von der Königin Luise - 2. Abteilung: Aus Preußens schwerer Zeit
Overview: French revolutionaries had swept into Prussia to wreak havoc, and now Napoleon marches in to inflict sad defeats on the Queen's troops, in the conflict between 1806 and 1807.
Genres: History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1913-02-21
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The Pride of Company Three
Overview: The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-01-04
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Ein kleiner Irrtum
Overview: A professor is mistaken for a comedian and ends up in a vaudeville show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-12-11
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Deutsche Helden in schwerer Zeit
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Nanon
Overview: An operetta directed by Herbert Maisch.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-11-15
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Impossible Love
Overview: A deranged woman artist falls in love with a young sculptor. The impossible love ends tragically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-12-23
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Die gläserne Kugel
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-04-11
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Mordsache Holm
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Die Reise ins Glück
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-03-27
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Fruchtbarkeit
Overview: The young, forward-thinking doctor Dr. Maerker arrives in a small factory town and is appalled by the prevailing social conditions. The working-class families live in poor conditions and can barely feed their many children. Maerker therefore wants to give a lecture on contraception in the inn, but encounters fierce resistance from his conservative boss, Dr. Witte, who wants to prevent the lecture together with the pastor and the magistrate. Only a severe nervous fever finally persuades old Witte to side with Maerker.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-02-21
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In letzter Minute
Overview: A retired rail official and his wife Amalie purchase a disused railroad wagon to convert it into a villa in the countryside. One day, Amalie discovers 25,000 Marks hidden behind a picture in the rail car. The money was put there by a Dutch couple, who tried to smuggle the money across the border during the train’s last journey. Sorely tempted to keep the money, Amalie turns it over to the authorities. The smugglers, who finally find the rail car after a long search, will be turned over to the cops, too.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-09-07
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Liebe muss verstanden sein
Overview: The stenotypist Margit is supposed to take 3,000 Marks to the bank for her boss, Mr. Plaumann, but she lazes away the time window-shopping, and eventually stands before a closed door. She follows Plaumann to Dresden, where he, believing the money is deposited in a bank as a down payment, wants to purchase a newfangled remote control from the inventor Lambach. Since Plaumann’s car breaks down on the road, Margit arrives before him and rests in the seemingly empty hotel room which later turns out to be Lambach’s. Meanwhile, Lambach himself is being spied on by the jealous cousin of his fiancée, who can’t wait to catch him in the act…
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-08-03
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Ein Gruß aus der Tiefe
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-12-01
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Her Highness the Saleswoman
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-09-29
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Fundvogel
Overview: Young Jan Bergwall visits his grandmother, the so-called centenary, at Woyland Castle. There he meets his cousin Andrea, who everyone calls "Fundvogel". Jan is fascinated by the young girl's beauty, and soon there is an erotic tension in the air between the two. Although they both have strong feelings for each other, they are afraid to make a commitment, even though their domineering grandmother is determined that they marry. Panicked that he might feel obliged to marry Andrea, Jan escapes from this place. Andrea is deeply disappointed and seeks revenge. Out of spite, she becomes involved with the falconer Bartel and is later raped in a wooden hut. The centigress, concerned about morals and customs, then sends Fundvogel to a convent. She escapes from there and flees into the arms of Jan. When he learns from a letter from the countess what has happened to Andrea, he leaves her a second time. In her despair, Fundvogel then throws herself off a bridge into the floods with suicidal intent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-05-19
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If I Were King
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-01-09
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The Great Passion
Overview: This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a story (in the line of "A Star is Born"), but this merely serves as an excuse, as it is more importantly a kind of moving encyclopedia of about 35 stars making their debut in a talkie (although some of them had already made one talkie), of the technical sound possibilities and of film making. Besides all that, it is entertaining and sometimes hilarious and it has fine one-liners that split my side. The film is also remarkable for making mock of typical German film genres (like the overly sweet romances involving the military), of too heavy acting and of film making in general. I have to mention this one: a short, hysterically funny parody of "Der blaue Engel". What this film in fact says is: do not take any film too seriously. (J. Steed)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-08-24
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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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Her Majesty Love
Overview: Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fallen for Lia, a comely bartender in the Berlin Cabaret. He proposes to her, much to the horror of his family, which considers Lia and her unsophisticated father far below their caste. The family convinces Fred to give up the girl in exchange for increased position and income in the company. But Fred's lapse is momentary, and he again pursues Lia. But she, by this time, has learned of his erstwhile agreement and has agreed to marry someone else.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-02-06
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Schloß Vogelöd
Overview: Remake of the silent film of 1921: The lord of a castle disappears after the return of two feuding brothers from a noble family. Suspicion falls on the recently returned brothers.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-03-19
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Das Tagebuch Collins
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Original Language: de
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Traumulus
Overview: This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials want him dismissed. Curiously it's very hard to see what the film is exactly aiming for. Disaster strikes and the lax prof proves to be too far removed of the real problems of the world, on the other hand his enemies are shown in the most unsympathetic, satirical way denouncing the militaristic, bourgeois ideology of the Kaiserreich.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-01-23
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Trenck - Der Roman einer großen Liebe
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-10-27
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Paul und Pauline
Overview: a movie by Heinz Paul
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-03-13
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Hilde und die vier PS
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-10-16
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Hahn im Korb
Overview: a movie by Heinz Paul
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1937-12-21
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Gold
Overview: Using an atomic reactor, two scientists try to create gold.
Genres: Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-03-29
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Der Traum vom Rhein
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-09-07
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Liebesträume
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-17
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The Page from the Dalmasse Hotel
Overview: Dolly Haas is employed as a (supposedly male) servant at a Hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-11-23
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Spiel im Sommerwind
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1939-02-02
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Der Gasmann
Overview: A man comes into money unexpectatly. That's when the trouble starts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-08-01
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Titanic
Overview: In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the over-spending required to build the largest luxury ship in the world, White Star Line executive Sir Bruce Ismay schemes to reverse the direction of his company's plummeting stock value. Onboard the Titanic, brave German 1st Officer Petersen struggles to convince his self-important British superiors not to overexert the ship's engines.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1943-11-10
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In the Employ of the Secret Service
Overview: During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-08-13
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Die große Chance
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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Weekend in Paradise
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-10-13
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Chauffeur Antoinette
Overview: The athletic young widow Antoinette Peterson gets into financial troubles when a business venture backfires and has to sell her car and her villa. On the road, she meets a stranger whose car she is able to repair and whom she later meets again as the buyer of her house. It is no one else than the venturer William P. Harrison to whom she lost her whole fortune in the first place. He offers her a bet: If she manages to stay for three months as his chauffeur and behaves accordingly, he would give her back her fortune. Although Harrison makes it as hard as possible for her, she keeps up. But they have already fallen in love with each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-01-15
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The Blue from the Sky
Overview: Out of unlikely circumstances an underground ticket vending girl and a mail pilot fall in love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-12-20
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Mother and Child
Overview: Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can’t have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is expecting a child, whose father, Jurgen, works in a sawmill. When both of them lose their jobs, they fear they won’t be able to feed the newborn. Thus, they strike a deal with the Petersens, which works for both couples: Anna and Jurgen will receive a farm from the Petersens, free and clear; and the two will allow the Petersens to adopt the child. Anna and Jurgen marry and are quite happy; but when the child is finally born, Anna doesn’t wish to surrender him and flees with the child into the Wattenmeer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-01-04
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Sie und die Drei
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-01-18
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Frau nach Maß
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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Illusion
Overview: Melodrama about an actress falling in love with a man who wants her to give up her job.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1941-12-30
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Wenn die Liebe Mode macht
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-12-21
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Liebelei
Overview: Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-03-10
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The Empress's Favourite
Overview: Comedy about the love life of the Russian emperor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-03-12
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Strafsache van Geldern
Overview: Paulus van Geldern is a lawyer who has made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney, but is notoriously short of funds due to his unbridled passion for gambling. His gambling causes problems with his marriage to Martha who is thriving.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-08-22
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