Anton Walbrook
Also Known As: Anton Walbrook, Adolf Wohlbruck, Adolphe Wohlbruck, Adolph Wohlbruck, Adolf Wolhbrueck, Adolf Wohlbrück
Biography: Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück (November 19, 1896 – August 9, 1967) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook. A popular performer in Austria and pre-war Germany, he left in 1936 out of concerns for his own safety and established a career in British cinema. Walbrook is perhaps best known for his roles in the original British film of Gaslight, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Shoes and Victoria the Great (as Prince Albert). From Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wien, Austria
Adult: No
Birthday: November 19, 1896
Age: 128 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 09, 1967
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Overview: General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
Genres: War Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-26
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The Soldier and the Lady
Overview: In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
Genres: Adventure History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-09
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La Ronde
Overview: An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-27
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The Red Shoes
Overview: In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-06
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Masquerade in Vienna
Overview: After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff. This muff however belongs to Anita Keller, in secret the painter's lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt. The picture is then published in the newspaper. When Paul sees it and asks von Heidenick some questions about the identity of the model, the artist is forced to improvise a story and on the spur of the moment invents a woman called Leopoldine Dur as the alleged model. Leopoldine Dur however turns out to be a real woman whose acquaintance Heidenick makes shortly afterwards.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-09-27
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Gaslight
Overview: Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Dangerous Moonlight
Overview: Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-26
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On Trial
Overview: Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace the sources of the case to uncover the truth.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-04
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The Queen of Spades
Overview: An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-16
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Saint Joan
Overview: In 1456, French King Charles VII recalls the story of how he met the 17-year-old peasant girl Joan of Arc, entrusted her with the command of the French Army, and ultimately burned her at the stake as a heretic.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-08
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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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Allotria
Overview: Best friends David and Philip have to end their love affair with their mistress Aimée which they - not knowing of each other - share, because they are going to marry their sweethearts Gaby and Viola. Of course Aimée will not accept her defeat. She interferes the engagement of Gaby and David, which lead to some turbulence and change of horses before they all end up in their honeymoon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-06-11
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I Accuse!
Overview: Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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The Rat
Overview: Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-11
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The Man from Morocco
Overview: With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-17
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Oh... Rosalinda!!
Overview: In post-war Vienna, Rosalinda and her husband become embroiled in a series of complicated escapades that puts their marital bliss at risk.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-21
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The English Marriage
Overview: Georg Alexander plays Douglas Mavis, the son of a rich English family who falls in love with a Berlin girl (Renate Müller) and marries her. However, he doesn't tell his family, and for a reason: the resolute head of the family (played by the inimitable Adele Sandrock) has other designs for her grandson. Further complications arise when the family lawyer (Adolf Wohlbrück) gets to know the Berlin lady without knowing who she is. And meanwhile, Mavis meets an alluring lady from a cabaret (Hilde Hildebrand).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-10-31
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Victoria the Great
Overview: The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Sixty Glorious Years
Overview: Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-18
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Waltz War
Overview: The quarrel between the waltz king Joseph Lanner and his still unknown violinist Johann Strauss. It comes to a break. Strauss is engaged in London and has his first successes there. Thanks to the initially unfortunate intervention of Lanner's daughter, a reconciliation is finally achieved.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-10-03
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Eine Frau die weiß, was sie will
Overview: Woman concert singer seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the daughter was a small child, and gets inadvertent help from the industrialist's fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-08-30
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The Student of Prague
Overview: Prague in the 1860s: Balduin is a popular, handsome student, the best fencer in town, in amicable rivalry with his friend Dahl for the affections of Lydia, the innkeeper's niece. While the students are celebrating Lydia's birthday, the opera singer Julia Stella arrives at the inn - and Balduin's life begins to unravel. He is immediately infatuated with the glamorous singer - but she is already kept by an admirer, the wealthy and foppish Baron Waldis. How can a poor student hope to compete? The mysterious Dr. Carpis, who also has ties to Julia and is jealous of the Baron, intervenes. But the price will be higher than Balduin can ever imagine. He risks his sanity and his life - perhaps his very soul - haunted by his own reflection.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-12-10
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The Czar's Courier
Overview: A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them. Strogoff encounters several colorful characters along the way. German language version of the French film Michel Strogoff, adapting the novel by Jules Verne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-04-23
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Lola Montès
Overview: Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Venus im Licht
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-10-03
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Three from the stamp office
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-02-24
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Vienna Waltzes
Overview: A biography of the composer Johann Strauss.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1951-06-17
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The Gypsy Baron
Overview: Sándor Barinkay joins the gypsies en route to his home village hiding his real identity as an Hungarian nobleman, whose parents were sent to exile. He claims his former properties, now taken by a pig merchant who plays the fool to the villagers' delight. Yet this man has an interesting daughter, and there's also the beautiful gypsy Saffi to consider. And a family hidden treasure to be found.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-04-16
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Die vertauschte Braut
Overview: Capricious Lady Virginia has an unexpected double in a girl who works at a fair and wishes for a beauty salon. When the first one's eccentricities lead to her arrest, the second is paid for going to prison. There she meets Charles, Virginia's suitor. When out of jail she will have to fight not only for him but for going through with the leading role in a skating show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1934-04-16
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I Was Jack Mortimer
Overview: The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersection from the backseat of his taxi. The shot is not heard during the traffic noise. The taxi driver, Sponer, sitting in his car with the now-dead Mortimer, goes into a panic.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-16
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Port Arthur
Overview: Espionage, war and romance in the Far East in 1904: Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky marries Youki, the sister of a fanatical Japanese officer, but war is imminent.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1936-12-07
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Right to Happiness
Overview: Herr Hoffmann is a famous widowed singer with a young daughter to raise, aided by his faithful manager. They meet a girl and Hoffmann falls for her, reluctant to believe that in fact she is in love with a musician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-04-24
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Don't Be Afraid of Love
Overview: The unemployed secretary Käte applies a job by mistake in the piano factory of the entrepreneur Helmut Hofert. He does not really have any need for an additional secretary at the moment, but Käte is very attractive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-12-12
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49th Parallel
Overview: In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-24
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Der Arzt am Scheideweg
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-07-10
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Regine
Overview: Frank returns to his homeland as an engineer, falls in love with Regine, the housemaid of his uncle, and marries her. Thanks to the intrigues of Floris, one of Frank's rejects, Regine is suspected of having an affair with another man. Depressed and desperate, she intends to commit suicide, but is saved by Frank in the last minute.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-01-07
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König für eine Nacht
Overview: Count Lerchenbach, the King's Adjutant, changes places with his master, King Ludwig I, in a romantic assignation with the beautiful Countess Rosenau.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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Baby
Overview: The daughter of the Parisian countess Lafitte, named "Baby", is supposed to go to an English boarding school, but she's much more interested in variety shows. Nevertheless, she travels with her friend Susette to London, who also wants to make a career for herself as a showgirl. During the journey, Baby is mistakenly considered to be a showgirl and she does nothing to dissuade two young English lords from believing so. The girls continue to live under false pretenses even when they arrive in England, with Baby being a soloist with the group "Babies" and Suzette passing herself off as the Contessa Lafitte for school exams. At the end -- a double marriage.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-12-19
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Robert und Elisabeth
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-12-08
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Laura
Overview: The detective investigating Laura Hunt's murder finds himself becoming obsessed with the dead woman only to find out she's actually still alive.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-07-25
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Michel Strogoff
Overview: The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines. On his way he encounters a number of adventures.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-10
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Port-Arthur
Overview: French-language remake of Port Arthur (1936): espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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Victor and Victoria
Overview: Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick friend, a small-time female impersonator, and finds unexpected fame when everyone believes that she is actually a man. While touring London, complications arise as a local womanizer catches on to her game.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1933-12-27
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Wüstenrausch
Overview: A romantic adventure set in the Sahara desert.
Genres: Adventure Romance Action Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Trapeze
Overview: Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-08-14
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The Five Accursed Gentlemen
Overview: European tourists on holiday in Morocco are threatened by a native sorcerer who predicts five of them will die, one by one, before the full moon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-03-23
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Information Please
Overview: Instructional military film that shows the many deceptive ways that Germans might extract valuable information from British prisoners-of-war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-01
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Georges et Georgette
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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Gypsy Baron
Overview: An Hungarian young man hides his real identity as baron Barinkay until he returns to his birthplace and claims the family properties, now occupied by a clumsy pig dealer who has a beautiful daughter. The gypsy girl is not bad looking either, and the gypsies are willing to help him recover his home and fortune. French version of Der Zigeunerbaron based on the Strauss operetta, filmed at the same time with a different cast except for Wohlbrück.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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Marionetten
Overview: A puppeteer fall asleep after a performance of his marionette theater and dreams that his protagonists, Pulcinello, Pierrot and Pierette, have made off with a bag of money. In his dream, the three have freed themselves from the ropes on their bodies and limbs and are beginning to lead a life of their own.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1915-08-27
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Martin Luther, His Life and Time
Overview: Martin Luther
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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The Secret of Castle Elmshoh
Overview: The Secret of Castle Elmshoh
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-07-08
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Le Plaisir
Overview: Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-02-29
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Das Geheimnis von Schloß Elmshöh
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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