Reinhold Schünzel

Acting

Reinhold Schünzel

Born November 7, 1888 · Hamburg, Germany

Died November 11, 1954 · aged 66

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.

Known For

NotoriousNotorious · 1946
Notorious
7.71946
MovieRomanceMystery
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, as a spy. As they begin to fall for one another, Alicia is instructed to win the affections of Alexander Sebastian, a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. When Sebastian becomes serious about his relationship with Alicia, the stakes get higher, and Devlin must watch her slip further undercover.
Countess KitchenmaidCountess Kitchenmaid · 1918
Countess Kitchenmaid
9.01918
MovieComedy
Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.
Victor/VictoriaVictor/Victoria · 1982
Victor/Victoria
7.31982
MovieMusicComedy
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
DragonwyckDragonwyck · 1946
Dragonwyck
6.61946
MovieDramaRomance
A simple Connecticut farm girl is recruited by a distant relative, an aristocratic patroon, to be governess to his young daughter in his Hudson Valley mansion.
Eerie TalesEerie Tales · 1919
Eerie Tales
5.51919
MovieFantasyHorror
A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
DonogooDonogoo
Donogoo
7.0
MovieComedy
The Beautiful AdventureThe Beautiful Adventure · 1932
The Beautiful Adventure
7.01932
MovieComedy
Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run away together. They stay with her aged grandmother who assumes the young man (whom she doesn't know) to be the new husband and has prepared a bridal bed for them.
Hangmen Also Die!Hangmen Also Die! · 1943
Hangmen Also Die!
6.91943
MovieDramaThriller
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.

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