Ferdinand Schumann-Heink

Ferdinand Schumann-Heink

Born: August 9, 1893
Died: September 15, 1958
in Hamburg, Germany

Movies for Ferdinand Schumann-Heink...

Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: German (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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Above Suspicion
Title: Above Suspicion
Character: Gestapo Officer in Opera Box (Uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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This Land Is Mine
Title: This Land Is Mine
Character: Karl, German Soldier
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe, in a city occupied by the Nazis, a gentle school teacher finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance, cowardice and courage.
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: German Reporter (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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Invisible Agent
Title: Invisible Agent
Character: German Telephone Operator (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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Mystery Sea Raider
Title: Mystery Sea Raider
Character: Submarine Captain
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
June McCarthy has unwittingly aided an undercover Nazi naval officer with acquiring a "mother ship" for German submarines in the Atlantic.
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British Intelligence
Title: British Intelligence
Character: German Officer
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
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Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: Train Conductor
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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Thunder Afloat
Title: Thunder Afloat
Character: German Operator (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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Never Say Die
Title: Never Say Die
Character: Associate Doctor
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. Martha Raye is a Texan heiress who wants to marry her boyfriend Andy Devine, but her father is determined that she marry into royalty. To solve both their problems, Martha Raye and Bob Hope decide to marry, but will they ever find love together?
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Submarine Patrol
Title: Submarine Patrol
Character: German Officer
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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Madame X
Title: Madame X
Character: Maitre d'Hotel
Released: October 1, 1937
Type: Movie
An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her in court.
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Talent Scout
Title: Talent Scout
Character: Costume Designer (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.
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The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Title: The Case of the Stuttering Bishop
Character: Ambulance Helper (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A Bishop from Australia comes to Perry to ask him to take a case of a woman wrongly accused of manslaughter 22 years before. The case would involve the wealthy Mr. Brownley and the fact that his alleged granddaughter may be an imposter. With that, the Bishop leaves and is clubbed in his hotel room. Soon after, he leaves on a boat and Perry meets the woman - Ida Gilbert. Perry goes to see Mr. Brownley, but gets nowhere. Later that night, Brownley is to meet Ida, but he is shot by a woman who drops Ida's gun. Ida is arrested for the murder of Mr. Brownley and Perry gets involved.
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Kid Galahad
Title: Kid Galahad
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
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Ready, Willing and Able
Title: Ready, Willing and Able
Character: Purser
Released: March 6, 1937
Type: Movie
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
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Smart Blonde
Title: Smart Blonde
Character: Reporter Grant (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.
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Guns of the Pecos
Title: Guns of the Pecos
Character: Ellis, Governor's Secretary
Released: December 28, 1936
Type: Movie
A singing cowboy (Dick Foran) thwarts a thieving judge and courts a woman (Anne Nagel) in Texas.
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Fugitive in the Sky
Title: Fugitive in the Sky
Character: Albuquerque Airline Attendant
Released: November 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Reporter Terry Brewer goes to the Los Angeles airport to say goodbye to his sweetheart, airline hostess Rita Moore. He notices G-Man Mike Phelan among the passengers and assuming Phelan is on the trail of a criminal, decides to go along to get a story.
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The Case of the Black Cat
Title: The Case of the Black Cat
Character: Mason's Driver (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm
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Two Against the World
Title: Two Against the World
Character: Sound Mixer
Released: July 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
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The Preview Murder Mystery
Title: The Preview Murder Mystery
Character: English Officer (Uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1936
Type: Movie
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
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The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Title: The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Character: Orderly
Released: January 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A young doctor is determined to expose the killer when a surgeon is found stabbed to death in a hospital elevator.
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The Widow from Monte Carlo
Title: The Widow from Monte Carlo
Character: Torrent's Chauffeur
Released: December 19, 1935
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, an aspiring socialite heads for a vacation in Monte Carlo where she befriends a wealthy widowed duchess and then begins blackmailing her after she steals a scandalous letter.
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Condemned to Live
Title: Condemned to Live
Character: Franz Kristan
Released: September 15, 1935
Type: Movie
After a series of murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
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Don't Bet on Blondes
Title: Don't Bet on Blondes
Character: Laboratory Assistant (Uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
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Oil for the Lamps of China
Title: Oil for the Lamps of China
Character: Worried McCarger Employee
Released: June 8, 1935
Type: Movie
An American oil company representative almost sacrifices his marriage for his career.
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'G' Men
Title: 'G' Men
Character: Congressman (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1935
Type: Movie
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
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The Florentine Dagger
Title: The Florentine Dagger
Character: Policeman Otto (uncredited)
Released: March 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.
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While the Patient Slept
Title: While the Patient Slept
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1935
Type: Movie
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
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Fugitive Road
Title: Fugitive Road
Character: Doctor
Released: August 22, 1934
Type: Movie
An Austrian officer must face up to the good and evil aspects of his own personality as he becomes involved in a war.
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The World Moves On
Title: The World Moves On
Character: Fritz von Gerhardt
Released: June 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Two families, cotton merchants in England and America, with branches in France and Prussia swear to stand by each other in a belief that a great business firmly established in four countries will be able to withstand even such another calamity as the Napoleonic Wars from which Europe is slowly recovering. Then many years later, along comes World War One and the years that follow, to test the businesses.
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Gigolettes of Paris
Title: Gigolettes of Paris
Released: October 5, 1933
Type: Movie
Silent screen favorite Madge Bellamy starred in this low-budget melodrama written and directed by character actor Alphonse Martell. In love with a rich customer, Count Albert Valraine (Theodore Von Eltz), salesgirl Suzanne Ricord accepts his engagement ring, but when she fails to understand "the rules of the game," as he puts it, the caddish Valraine demands that she return the bauble.
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My Pal, the King
Title: My Pal, the King
Character: Gen. Wiedeman (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1932
Type: Movie
The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.
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Hell's Angels
Title: Hell's Angels
Character: First Officer of Zeppelin
Released: November 15, 1930
Type: Movie
When World War I breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
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Worldly Goods
Title: Worldly Goods
Character: Jeff
Released: July 31, 1930
Type: Movie
A businessman who has devoted his whole life to obtaining money and power finds that he can't buy the one thing he craves: love.
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Blaze o' Glory
Title: Blaze o' Glory
Character: Carl Hummel
Released: December 30, 1929
Type: Movie
On trial for the murder of Carl Hummel, Eddie Williams tells his story, which begins just before the World War
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Riley the Cop
Title: Riley the Cop
Character: Julius Kuchendorf
Released: November 25, 1928
Type: Movie
In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
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Four Sons
Title: Four Sons
Character: A Staff Sergeant
Released: February 13, 1928
Type: Movie
A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with L'Imaginne Ritrovato and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1999.