Bert Sprotte

Bert Sprotte

Born: December 9, 1870
Died: December 30, 1949
in Chemnitz, Germany
From Wikipedia

Bert Sprotte (9 December 1870 – 30 December 1949) was a

German actor. He appeared in 77 films between 1918 and 1938.

He was born in Chemnitz, Saxony and died in Los Angeles,

California.

Movies for Bert Sprotte...

It Could Happen to You
Title: It Could Happen to You
Character: German
Released: June 28, 1937
Type: Movie
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigrants are prepared for American citizenship. The school's European teacher dreams of a fascist America. Based on a story by Nathanael West and Samuel Ornitz, who was one of the Hollywood Ten blacklisted during the McCarthy Era.
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Dracula's Daughter
Title: Dracula's Daughter
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: May 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
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One Night of Love
Title: One Night of Love
Character: Beer Truck Driver
Released: July 16, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary Barrett is an aspiring opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy and misunderstandings prevent Mary and Guilio from acknowledging their true feelings.
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Manhattan Melodrama
Title: Manhattan Melodrama
Character: German Note Holder (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
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Captured!
Title: Captured!
Character: Sergeant Major
Released: August 19, 1933
Type: Movie
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him. Fred longs for news of his wife, Monica, but Digby speaks little of her. Digby knows a secret about Monica, a secret he must keep from his friend, and it wears at his conscience so much that he attempts a reckless escape.
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Song of the Eagle
Title: Song of the Eagle
Character: Emil Kranzmeyer
Released: April 27, 1933
Type: Movie
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry. Much of the tale is focused upon a family endeavoring to keep their little brewery.
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A Passport to Hell
Title: A Passport to Hell
Character: Hotel Proprietor
Released: August 25, 1932
Type: Movie
Just prior to the outbreak of World War I, in the British West African town of Akkra, English woman Myra Carson becomes involved in a scandal and is deported. While Myra's ship is docked at Duala, in German West Africa, the war breaks out and she finds herself facing internment by the Germans.
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Demon of the Sea
Title: Demon of the Sea
Released: March 12, 1931
Type: Movie
Ahab pursues a whale that chewed off a leg when his brother, vying with him for the hand of a minister's daughter, pushed him overboard. When he has caught the monstrous whale he will then deal with his brother.
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A Royal Romance
Title: A Royal Romance
Character: Magistrate
Released: March 17, 1930
Type: Movie
A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant "Rusty." He discovers the 'hauntee' to be Countess von Baden, hiding in a secret chamber with her son, whom the court has awarded to her divorced husband.
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Pass the Gravy
Title: Pass the Gravy
Character: Schultz
Released: January 7, 1928
Type: Movie
Schultz raises prize chickens and roosters that are always getting into neighbor Max Davidson's garden and eating the seeds, leading to constant feuding between the two men. When their children announce their engagement the two men decide to bury the hatchet and Davidson suggests a dinner at his house. He gives his young son, Ignatz, two dollars to buy a chicken but the boy pockets the money and kills Schultz' first place rooster instead. Once seated at the table all but Schultz discover what they are eating and desperately try to hide the bad news from Schultz who is sure to kill Davidson if he knows the truth.
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The Private Life of Helen of Troy
Title: The Private Life of Helen of Troy
Character: Achilles
Released: December 9, 1927
Type: Movie
Setting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly refuses to take any of The Private Life of Helen of Troy seriously. Maria Corda, wife of the director, plays the title character as a fetchingly underdressed coquette, oblivious to all the political turmoil she's causing when she allows the handsome Paris (Ricardo Cortez) to kidnap her. Meanwhile, poor King Menelaus (Lewis Stone), Helen's husband, stands by in stoic silence, just as he's done on previous occasions when his wife succumbed to the charms of various sexy suitors (one of whom is played by future cowboy star "Wild Bill" Elliot). Finally galvanized into action, Menelaus reclaims his bride, who seems none the worse for wear for her experiences.
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Wild Geese
Title: Wild Geese
Character: Marshal
Released: November 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Silent romantic melodrama about a wife and mother who is desperate to keep a secret from the past IN the past, despite her husband's intentions to reveal it.
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The Stolen Bride
Title: The Stolen Bride
Character: Sergeant
Released: August 10, 1927
Type: Movie
The daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.
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Life of an Actress
Title: Life of an Actress
Character: John Dowen
Released: February 15, 1927
Type: Movie
Film directed by Jack Nelson
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Why Women Love
Title: Why Women Love
Character: Olaf Hansen
Released: October 18, 1925
Type: Movie
Why Women Love (1925)
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Confessions of a Queen
Title: Confessions of a Queen
Character: Revolutionary Leader
Released: March 30, 1925
Type: Movie
The King of Illyris marries a neighboring princess, who finds out he has a mistress, Sephora. Revolted, she turns to Prince Alexei for friendship. Turmoil increases as a revolution demands the abdication of the King and the Queen opposes this decision.
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His Hour
Title: His Hour
Character: Ivan
Released: September 29, 1924
Type: Movie
Gritzko, a prince of pre-World War I Russia, is the ultimate ladies' man. Women fall at his feet -- all except for a young but cold British widow, Tamara Loraine. While she's spurning his advances, Tamara is growing ever more fascinated with Gritzko.
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Little Robinson Crusoe
Title: Little Robinson Crusoe
Character: Adolphe Schmidt
Released: August 25, 1924
Type: Movie
Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with relatives, but he is shipwrecked and stranded on an island inhabited by cannibals who worship him as a war god.
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Singer Jim Mckee
Title: Singer Jim Mckee
Character: Dan Gleason
Released: March 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Jim McKee and his friend Buck rob a stagecoach to get money to support Buck's daughter. Buck is killed, but Jim and the daughter escape. Fifteen years later, Jim finds that he must turn robber again to continue to provide for Buck's daughter.
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Wild Bill Hickok
Title: Wild Bill Hickok
Character: Bob Wright
Released: December 18, 1923
Type: Movie
The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers.
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Rosita
Title: Rosita
Character: Big Jailer
Released: September 3, 1923
Type: Movie
The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to be executed, the King lusts after Rosita and decides to put her up in a luxurious villa. To give her a title, he marries her to a masked nobleman, who turns out to be Don Diego.
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The Miracle Baby
Title: The Miracle Baby
Character: Sam Brodford
Released: August 19, 1923
Type: Movie
Neil Allison is tricked into assaying some false samples from a young crook's mine. When Neil sees that he has been duped, a quarrel ensues, and Jim Starke, the youth, is stabbed by an unknown assassin. Neil runs away thinking he has committed murder and becomes the unwitting partner of the victim's father.
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The Purple Dawn
Title: The Purple Dawn
Character: Red Carson
Released: May 10, 1923
Type: Movie
The Purple Dawn is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film that was produced, written, and directed by Charles R. Seeling. Starring Bessie Love, Bert Sprotte, and William E. Aldrich. The film is presumed lost.
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Soul of the Beast
Title: Soul of the Beast
Character: Silas Hamm
Released: May 6, 1923
Type: Movie
This northwoods comedy-drama, by way of a circus drama, was directed by John Griffith Wray for Thomas H. Ince, and stars Madge Bellamy.
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Snowdrift
Title: Snowdrift
Character: Jean McLaire (prologue)
Released: April 22, 1923
Type: Movie
A Northwest melodrama about a mining engineer who loses his money gambling in the Yukon.
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Trimmed in Scarlet
Title: Trimmed in Scarlet
Character: Duroc
Released: April 9, 1923
Type: Movie
Disapproving of the loose woman her father has married, Faith Ebbing leaves home and goes to work, but she later steals $5,000 in Liberty Bonds to pay off Duroc, a blackmailer threatening her mother, Cordelia Ebbing.
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The Prisoner
Title: The Prisoner
Character: Courant
Released: March 18, 1923
Type: Movie
While traveling in Europe Philip Quentin encounters his former sweetheart, Dorothy Garrison, and finds that she is now engaged to Prince Ugo Ravorelli, whom Philip recognizes as the man wanted for a murder in Brazil.
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Hungry Hearts
Title: Hungry Hearts
Character: Cossack
Released: November 26, 1922
Type: Movie
A family of Russian Jews living in New York struggles to survive, while the mother strives to better their lives, but she finds that most of her efforts costs more then they are worth.
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The Ropin' Fool
Title: The Ropin' Fool
Character: The Sheriff
Released: October 29, 1922
Type: Movie
"Ropes" Reilly shows off his impressive roping skills, then runs afoul of the local townsfolk.
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For Big Stakes
Title: For Big Stakes
Character: Rowell Clark
Released: June 18, 1922
Type: Movie
"Clean-Up" Sudden is a drifter restoring law and order to a small farming community run by a corrupt sheriff in this silent Western.
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The Fighting Streak
Title: The Fighting Streak
Character: Hal Dozier
Released: May 13, 1922
Type: Movie
Based on a 1921 story by George Owen Baxter (alias Frederick Faust and Max Brand)
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A Question of Honor
Title: A Question of Honor
Released: March 1, 1922
Type: Movie
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Trailin'
Title: Trailin'
Character: John Woodbury
Released: December 11, 1921
Type: Movie
A Tom Mix classic! Tom is a devil-may-care aristocrat whose father has mysteriously concealed all info about his deceased mother. One day, an old man shows up and shoots Tom's father dead! The only clue Tom has is a picture of a far-away ranch in Idaho that was hidden away for years in a secret locked room in their mansion.
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Below the Deadline
Title: Below the Deadline
Character: Buck Elliot
Released: November 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Wharf-master Buck Elliot is the leader of a band of murderous crooks. The gang shoots down a policeman in a wharf side scuffle, and Detective Donovan swears revenge on the murderer.
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The Night Horsemen
Title: The Night Horsemen
Character: Mac Strann
Released: October 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Whistling Dan (Tom Mix) is raised by the kindly rancher Old Joe Cumberland (Harry Lonsdale) after Dan is found wandering the desert as a youth. After he becomes a man, Dan wanders throughout the West, following the wild geese when they fly South every year. He finds trouble in a lawless town and wounds a rival gunman.
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The Blazing Trail
Title: The Blazing Trail
Character: Hank Millicuddy
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Young doctor Bradley Yates has been trying to come up with a serum to counteract blood poisoning, with no results. Exhausted, he takes a rest in the Blue Ridge Mountains and stays in a small mountain community. When a young schoolteacher comes to town a romance develops between her and Bradley, but the local gossips have spread rumors that he has seduced Talithy, a local girl, and will abandon her for the teacher. Complications ensue.
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Bob Hampton of Placer
Title: Bob Hampton of Placer
Character: Sheriff
Released: May 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Former U.S. Army Capt. Bob Hampton joins a party of settlers and saves the life of a girl known as "The Kid" from a siege.
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O'Malley of the Mounted
Title: O'Malley of the Mounted
Character: Sheriff
Released: February 6, 1921
Type: Movie
Sergeant O'Malley of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police gets himself into a gang of outlaws in order to detect and capture a wanted murderer. He finds the killer, but falls in love with the man's sister. In the meantime, one of the outlaws uncovers O'Malley's true identity.
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White Oak
Title: White Oak
Character: Eliphalet Moss
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Gambler Oak Miller seeks revenge on the man who misused his sister Rose, who is ill and under the care of the woman Oak loves, Barbara. The man Oak seeks, Granger, is planning to rob a wagon train with the collusion of the Indians under Chief Long Knife. When Barbara is suspected of killing her lascivious stepfather, Oak takes the blame and is arrested just before he is needed to save the threatened wagon train.
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Guile of Women
Title: Guile of Women
Character: Skole
Released: January 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A naive young Swede is repeatedly victimized by predatory women. When finally he meets a young woman who seems sincere and true, he wonders if he can trust her.
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Two Moons
Title: Two Moons
Character: Sheriff Red Agnew
Released: December 19, 1920
Type: Movie
A fight breaks out between the cattle ranchers and the upstart sheep men, whose fences were seen as a threat to the freedom of the West.
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The Deceiver
Title: The Deceiver
Released: December 1, 1920
Type: Movie
The story of a man who seeks self-aggrandizement regardless of the sacrifice of friends, sweetheart and honor, but who is finally made to realize the futility of an ambition founded on false principles.
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The Golden Trail
Title: The Golden Trail
Character: Jim Sykes
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
At the Golden Trail saloon in Alaska, Dave Langdon meets chorus girl Faro Kate who reminds him of his long-lost love, Jane Sunderlin. Meanwhile, back in the States, Harry Teal, scheming to steal a mine claim, hires Jane's brother Dick to do his dirty work in Alaska. After Jane accompanies her brother up North, Teal, who has designs on Jane, begins to fear that she will go back to Dave and so plots to discredit him by igniting the jealousy of Kate's admirer, Jim Sykes. Teal succeeds, and in the violent fight that erupts between Dave and Sykes, Sykes is shot by an unknown hand. While pursuing Sykes' assailant, Dave discovers Jane, but their reunion is cut short when Dave is arrested for the shooting.
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Jes' Call Me Jim
Title: Jes' Call Me Jim
Character: Buffum
Released: May 23, 1920
Type: Movie
Happy-go-lucky Jim Fenton is in love with Miss Butterworth, the town milliner, who is taking care of little Harry Benedict while his father Paul, an inventor, is in the local insane asylum. Miss Butterworth convinces Jim that Belcher, one of the town's prominent citizens, has incarcerated Paul to steal the patents from his inventions. Jim breaks into the asylum and spirits away the enfeebled inventor......
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The World Aflame
Title: The World Aflame
Character: Nicolai Poppoff
Released: August 17, 1919
Type: Movie
Wealthy businessman Carson Burr discovers first-hand the problem of social unrest when he loses his cook and his chauffeur and he is insulted by a waiter. Burr runs for mayor to improve the labor situation and is elected. The editor of The Red Messenger organizes the streetcar drivers to begin a general strike, but Burr manages to break up the strike
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Wagon Tracks
Title: Wagon Tracks
Character: Brick Muldoon
Released: July 28, 1919
Type: Movie
Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.
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Breed of Men
Title: Breed of Men
Character: Wesley B. Prentice
Released: February 2, 1919
Type: Movie
Boss rider "Careless" Carmody is made sheriff of an Arizona frontier town by Chicago swindler Prentice. The naive Carmody actually believes Prentice to be on the up and up and vouches for him in a land deal with Ruth Fellowes. Taken to the cleaners, so to speak, Ruth blames Carmody, who, in love with the girl, follows Prentice back to Chicago.
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The Border Wireless
Title: The Border Wireless
Character: Von Helm (as Berthold Sprotte)
Released: October 6, 1918
Type: Movie
Cowhand Steve Ransom discovers that German spies are operating along Mexican border, relaying their radio messages into Mexico and thus on to Germany. The spies learn that Steve is a fugitive from American justice.
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Vive la France!
Title: Vive la France!
Character: German Sergeant
Released: September 15, 1918
Type: Movie
A couple's suffering finally comes to an end when Jean, having lost his memory through shell shock, sees the cross of shame on Jenevieve's breast, gets his memory back and the two pledge their troth.
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Shark Monroe
Title: Shark Monroe
Character: Onion McNab
Released: June 30, 1918
Type: Movie
In this 1918 film, newly restored by MoMA, Hart is a ship's captain in the Pacific Northwest who abandons his post to pursue a woman who does not love him (MacDonald) across the Klondike, eventually rescuing her from the grip of a white slaver.
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Selfish Yates
Title: Selfish Yates
Character: Rocking Chair Riley
Released: May 12, 1918
Type: Movie
The story is set in Arizona, where the aptly nicknamed Yates is the proprietor of the local saloon. Unable to find any other work, pretty Mary Adams is forced to scrub floors in Yates' establishment. At first treating her with the same disdain that he extends to the rest of the townsfolk, Yates slowly but surely falls in love with Mary.