Meinhart Maur

Meinhart Maur

Born: August 18, 1884
Died: January 1, 1964
in Hajdúnánás, Hungary

Movies for Meinhart Maur...

Never Let Me Go
Title: Never Let Me Go
Character: Lemkov
Released: March 18, 1953
Type: Movie
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
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The Tales of Hoffmann
Title: The Tales of Hoffmann
Released: April 4, 1951
Type: Movie
A young poet named Hoffman broods over his failed romances. First, his affair with the beautiful Olympia is shattered when he realizes that she is really a mechanical woman designed by a scientist. Next, he believes that a striking prostitute loves him, only to find out she was hired to fake her affections by the dastardly Dapertutto. Lastly, a magic spell claims the life of his final lover.
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The Wooden Horse
Title: The Wooden Horse
Character: Hotel Proprietor
Released: October 16, 1950
Type: Movie
True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
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Dick Barton at Bay
Title: Dick Barton at Bay
Character: Serge Volkoff
Released: October 2, 1950
Type: Movie
David Phillips (Patrick Macnee) is running down the darkened streets of London's Limehouse district, pursued by two men with guns. He finds a public phone and puts a call through to Dick Barton (Don Stannard), but before he can report, a shot rings out. Barton must piece together what Phillips found out that got him killed. Phillips had been assigned to protect Professor Mitchell (Percy Walsh) and his new development, a ray capable of exploding any unstable element aboard an aircraft in flight. Mitchell has been targeted for kidnapping by Serge Volkoff (Meinhart Maur), a foreign agent from Eastern Europe, as part of a larger, much more sinister plot to destroy England and cripple Western Europe. Complicating matters further is that Mitchell's daughter (Joyce Linden) has also been kidnapped, and Barton must contend with Volkoff's crafty female companion Anna (Tamara Desni).
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It's Not Cricket
Title: It's Not Cricket
Character: Maharajah
Released: April 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
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The Huggetts Abroad
Title: The Huggetts Abroad
Character: Jeweller
Released: March 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
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Candlelight in Algeria
Title: Candlelight in Algeria
Character: Schultz
Released: March 19, 1944
Type: Movie
Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands
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We’ll Smile Again
Title: We’ll Smile Again
Character: Here Steiner
Released: December 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Nazi spies infiltrate a British film studio with the intention of sending coded messages in the films they produce.
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Three Silent Men
Title: Three Silent Men
Character: Karl Zaroff
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of the inventors plot.
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Band Waggon
Title: Band Waggon
Character: German General (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1940
Type: Movie
A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
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An Englishman's Home
Title: An Englishman's Home
Character: Waldo
Released: January 27, 1940
Type: Movie
A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.
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21 Days Together
Title: 21 Days Together
Character: Carl Grunlich
Released: January 7, 1940
Type: Movie
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
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The Return of the Frog
Title: The Return of the Frog
Character: 'Dutchy' Alkmann
Released: November 24, 1938
Type: Movie
The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
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Who Goes Next?
Title: Who Goes Next?
Character: Commandant
Released: March 1, 1938
Type: Movie
During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
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Doctor Syn
Title: Doctor Syn
Character: Mulatto
Released: August 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
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O-Kay for Sound
Title: O-Kay for Sound
Character: Guggenheimer
Released: February 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Hyman Goldberger, the president of film studio Super-Colossal Pictures, is in trouble--his major backer is threatening to stop financing his pictures. He finds a group of six wealthy individuals who may want to become investors in the studio if his disgruntled backer pulls out. Unfortunately, his bumbling runner Albert picks that day to invite six of his street musician friends to be in the film that is currently shooting at the studio, and Hyman mistakes them for the potential investors. Complications ensue.
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Rembrandt
Title: Rembrandt
Character: Ornia (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1936
Type: Movie
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Title: The Thirteen Trunks of Mr. O.F.
Character: Arzt
Released: December 2, 1931
Type: Movie
In the very oldfashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They proclaim, that O.F. is a former citizen of the town, who became a millionaire abroad. They tell their fellow citizens that the town still needs modernisation, like better hotels, nightclubs, shops, etc. And soon, Ostend is a boomtown, then a capital. The architect, responsible for the new buildings is finaly allowed to marry the mayor's daughter, while Stix marries the cabaret star and the widowed mayor his new secretary. The only problem is, O.F. hasn't shown up, while finance experts from all over the world are trying to solve the depression problem.
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Die Teufelsanbeter
Title: Die Teufelsanbeter
Character: Hadschi Halef Omar
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
In the wild, hardly explored mountains of Kurdish country lives the mysterious society of the Jesidi , who are called the devil worshipers by their opponents. In these mountains, shaded by dark fir trees, revenge and hatred reign and constant struggle between the countless races and sects. Strange festivals unite the fervor of thousands, crowned by the dramatic sacrificial death of one of their holy men. And yet, even in these pictures, which are filled with tremendous passion, there is no lack of warm humor and a cheerful, strong forgiving nature that leads everything to a liberating end. The film is believed to be lost.
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Caravan of Death
Title: Caravan of Death
Character: Hadschi Halef Omar
Released: November 16, 1920
Type: Movie
Caravan of Death (German: Die Todeskarawane) is a 1920 silent German film, it was an adaptation of the latter half of the Karl May novel From Baghdad to Stamboul, and is now considered to be lost. The film featured Bela Lugosi playing an Arab Sheik pitted against European travellers in an adventure story set in the Sahara. It was the second of three films released by Ustad based on desert adventure novels by Karl May. Although Karl May’s widow praised the film, critics were unimpressed and it was a commercial failure.
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The Black Tulip Festival
Title: The Black Tulip Festival
Character: Isaac Tichelaer
Released: October 30, 1920
Type: Movie
Based on the novel The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas.
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Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses
Title: Auf den Trümmern des Paradieses
Character: Hadschi Halef Omar
Released: October 6, 1920
Type: Movie
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Va banque
Title: Va banque
Released: June 27, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship
Title: The Spiders: Part 2 - The Diamond Ship
Released: February 6, 1920
Type: Movie
When last we saw Kay Hoog (millionaire adventurer, courageous hunk), he’d been beset with tragedy. Having escaped an ancient Incan city by the skin of his gleaming teeth, Hoog looked forward to a few years of settled life with his (amicably) captured Incan lovely, Naela. But the past struck quickly. Hoog’s arch-nemesis, the homicidal femme Lio Sha, murdered Naela on the very grounds of Hoog’s estate, prompting him to swear revenge upon her and her criminal organization, the Spiders. Now he must find them, as the Spiders continue their global quest for the Buddha-head Diamond. The head, it’s said, has the power to restore Asia to world dominance.
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Die silberne Fessel
Title: Die silberne Fessel
Released: January 30, 1920
Type: Movie
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Sybill Morgan
Title: Sybill Morgan
Released: January 1, 1920
Type: Movie
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Harakiri
Title: Harakiri
Character: Price Matahari
Released: December 18, 1919
Type: Movie
The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to come back for her and his new child, but when he comes back to Japan, he brings his European wife.
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Der heulende Wolf
Title: Der heulende Wolf
Released: December 1, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
Title: The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea
Released: October 3, 1919
Type: Movie
In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.
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Die beiden Gatten der Frau Ruth
Title: Die beiden Gatten der Frau Ruth
Character: Notar Lars Sidellius
Released: July 25, 1919
Type: Movie
A young academic decides to accept guardianship of the daughter of a late friend. Expecting her to be a young child, the household is shocked to find out she is in fact a young woman. The two marry but more miscommunications cause troubles in their relationship.
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Moderne Töchter
Title: Moderne Töchter
Released: July 1, 1919
Type: Movie