Paul Graetz

Paul Graetz

Born: July 2, 1890
Died: February 16, 1937
in Glogów, Poland
Paul Graetz was German-born comedian and actor of Jewish ancestry. He was born in Glogau, Schlesia (today Głogów in Poland) in 1890, and was very active on stage and in German cinema from 1911 to 1932.  

When the Nazis came to power in February 1933, he fled to the United Kingdom, where he learned English and had roles in several films. He continued to Hollywood at the end of 1935, where he only had a couple of roles in B movies before dying in 1937 at the age of 46.

Movies for Paul Graetz...

Isle of Fury
Title: Isle of Fury
Character: Captain Deever
Released: October 10, 1936
Type: Movie
An island fugitive and his bride make room for a shipwrecked detective.
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Bengal Tiger
Title: Bengal Tiger
Character: Carl Homan
Released: July 29, 1936
Type: Movie
After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.
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Hot Money
Title: Hot Money
Character: Doctor David
Released: July 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
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Bulldog Jack
Title: Bulldog Jack
Character: Salvini
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.
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Heart's Desire
Title: Heart's Desire
Character: Florian
Released: August 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Richard Tauber, the great Austrian tenor, features in the story of a singing peasant from a Vienna beer-garden who conquers London, but at a cost...
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18 Minutes
Title: 18 Minutes
Character: Pietro
Released: April 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.
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Mimi
Title: Mimi
Character: Durand
Released: March 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspiration he has long sought.
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Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
Title: Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
Character: Jake Cohen
Released: February 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
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Murder at Monte Carlo
Title: Murder at Monte Carlo
Character: Dr. Heinrich Becker
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo to try it out. When he turns up murdered and his "system" missing, a reporter sets out to find the killer--and the system.
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Jew Süss
Title: Jew Süss
Character: Landauer
Released: October 13, 1934
Type: Movie
A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life in the 18th century Jewish ghetto of Württemberg. Süss (Veidt) works himself out of the ghetto and into a position of power himself with the help of an evil Duke.
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The Scotland Yard Mystery
Title: The Scotland Yard Mystery
Character: Paston
Released: January 3, 1934
Type: Movie
A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.
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Blossom Time
Title: Blossom Time
Character: Alois Wimpassinger
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
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Red Wagon
Title: Red Wagon
Character: Max Schultze
Released: December 6, 1933
Type: Movie
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
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The Lost Paradise
Title: The Lost Paradise
Character: Paule
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
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Mountains on Fire
Title: Mountains on Fire
Character: Feldtelefonist
Released: September 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Two of Germany's best and busiest directors collaborated on Berge in Flammen (Mountain in Flames). The storyline should be of interest to pro-ecologists, inasmuch as the directors take to task the warmongers of the world for despoiling the natural beauties of the European mountain ranges with their shell-fire. The final outrage occurs during a battle between the Austrians and the Italians in the Dolomites, culminating with the destruction of an entire mountain (hence the film's title). The harrowing images on screen were complemented perfectly by the musical score of Giuseppe Beece. Also known as The Doomed Batallion, Berge in Flammen was filmed in three different languages -- German, English, French -- for a total cost of $150,000.
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King Fu's yellow house
Title: King Fu's yellow house
Released: April 16, 1931
Type: Movie
When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who resembles him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
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Mary
Title: Mary
Character: Bobby Brown
Released: March 2, 1931
Type: Movie
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution. German version of "Murder."
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Vienna, City of Song
Title: Vienna, City of Song
Character: Piefke
Released: April 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Steffi is in love with the unemployed musician Pepi. Still, her father the musical instrument retailer, Ignaz Korn, wants her to marry one of his card playing buddies, the butcher Burgstaller. When the typesetter, Cäsar Grün, purposely misprints a winning lottery number in the newspaper, Korn and Burgstaller, thinking they have won, pay the drinks for everybody in the Bock Café and then give away their businesses.
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The Fight for the Matterhorn
Title: The Fight for the Matterhorn
Character: Meynet
Released: November 27, 1928
Type: Movie
Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.
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Moral
Title: Moral
Character: Polizeischreiber Reisacher
Released: January 20, 1928
Type: Movie
When a travelling troupe threatens to unleash a saucy Berlin revue on the provincial town of Emilsburg, the local Morality Society, a band of sanctimonious middle-aged men, stages a protest. Meanwhile, the reigning monarch is concerned that his son and heir is not living his life to the full. Ninon d’Hauteville, a showgirl and the revue’s star attraction, takes a job as piano teacher to the young prince after her engagement at the local theatre was brought to a premature end, a result of the Morality Society’s interference. It doesn’t take long for those hypocrites to get wind of this. While on the outside they appear to be concerned with running the immoral woman out of their town, behind closed doors they rank among the new piano teacher’s most ardent pupils. However, Ninon, out to right the wrong done against her, secretly keeps a “diary” of their visits, recording each encounter on film with a hidden camera.
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The Great Leap
Title: The Great Leap
Released: December 20, 1927
Type: Movie
A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.
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A Crazy Night
Title: A Crazy Night
Character: Pille
Released: January 21, 1927
Type: Movie
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Die Warenhausprinzessin
Title: Die Warenhausprinzessin
Released: December 17, 1926
Type: Movie
a silent movie by Heinz Paul
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Küssen ist keine Sünd'
Title: Küssen ist keine Sünd'
Released: September 30, 1926
Type: Movie
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Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Title: Die drei Kuckucksuhren
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: May 25, 1926
Type: Movie
Lord Ernest Clifton lives with his beautiful wife, Gladys, at Easton Lodge. He has lost immense wealth in the lap of his uncle's death. One day Lord Clifton receives a mysterious package with an even more mysterious letter from his uncle. Three cuckoo clocks that strike only once a month should show him the way to find the second part of the pot of gold buried somewhere. Ernest's thirst for adventure only awakens and waits for the first cuckoo clock to mark the room number of a hotel in Cairo, where the second cuckoo clock hangs.
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Dr. Wislizenus
Title: Dr. Wislizenus
Character: Iltis
Released: March 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Deep in the forest lives the bitter Dr. Wislizenus, whose childhood sweetheart Maria committed suicide ten years ago. The visit of a childhood friend, he who wrote a poem about Mary, triggers a tragedy.
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Auferstehung. Katjuscha Maslowa
Title: Auferstehung. Katjuscha Maslowa
Released: August 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that she is now on trial for murder.
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The Wildcat
Title: The Wildcat
Character: Zofano
Released: April 14, 1921
Type: Movie
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
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The House on the Moon
Title: The House on the Moon
Character: Kornill - Schauspieler
Released: January 28, 1921
Type: Movie
The House on the Moon
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Sumurun
Title: Sumurun
Character: Puffti, Sklave
Released: September 1, 1920
Type: Movie
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
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The Double Murder of Sarajevo
Title: The Double Murder of Sarajevo
Character: Gavrilo Princip
Released: January 16, 1920
Type: Movie
A dramatization of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.