Wilhelm von Brincken

Wilhelm von Brincken

Born: May 27, 1881
Died: January 18, 1946
in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Movies for Wilhelm von Brincken...

Around the World
Title: Around the World
Character: German
Released: November 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
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Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Title: Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Character: Capt. Boschert
Released: July 24, 1943
Type: Movie
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
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Background to Danger
Title: Background to Danger
Character: German Official
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: German Submarine Captain (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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The Boy from Stalingrad
Title: The Boy from Stalingrad
Character: German General
Released: May 20, 1943
Type: Movie
If J.M. Barrie had had a hand in Tarkovsky's IVAN'S CHILDHOOD, it might like something like this bizarre boys' adventure confection. Surprised by the advancing German Army while gathering wheat outside their village, a spunky band of Russian adolescents employs a combination of wits and heroic self-sacrifice to defeat a Nazi battalion, blow up a tank, and save the people of Stalingrad from imminent destruction. A rarely-seen entry in Hollywoood's brief wartime spate of pro-Soviet propaganda films, THE BOY FROM STALINGRAD stars Serbian-American child actor Bobby Samarzich, who went on to found one of Southern California's greatest tamburitza bands.
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The Purple V
Title: The Purple V
Character: Col. von Ritter (as William Vaughn)
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
German expatriate Fritz Kortner plays the largest role, as an anti-Nazi schoolmaster who helps a downed American flyer (John Archer) reached Allied lines with vital war information. As usual, the Nazis are incredibly stupid and lead-footed, enabling the flyer to accomplish his mission.
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Reunion in France
Title: Reunion in France
Character: Major (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Title: Once Upon a Honeymoon
Character: German Colonel with American Consul (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Miss V from Moscow
Title: Miss V from Moscow
Character: Captain Richter (as William Vaughn)
Released: November 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.
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King of the Mounties
Title: King of the Mounties
Character: Marshal Von Horst (as William Vaughn)
Released: October 17, 1942
Type: Movie
King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic plane called "The Falcon" first, but that's not gonna happen if Kig has his way.
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Atlantic Convoy
Title: Atlantic Convoy
Character: U-Boat Officer
Released: July 2, 1942
Type: Movie
American naval forces are using a port in Iceland as a base for anti-submarine patrols to protect North Atlantic convoys from Nazi subs. The Nazis send undercover agents into the port in a scheme to blow up the entrance to the harbor and keep the patrols blocked in. The officers in charge of the patrols have to find the spies and stop them before they achieve their objective.
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Where Trails End
Title: Where Trails End
Character: Tip Wallace (Gang Leader) (as William Vaughn)
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Prince the wonder horse and his gallant rider gallop off to protect hapless ranchers from the ruthless Nazi bad guys who are trying to steal their land so they can exploit the valuable tungsten deposits in this WW II western. Mayhem ensues, but soon the villains are vanquished and America's tungsten deposits are safe once more.
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The Deadly Game
Title: The Deadly Game
Character: Nazi Agent
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Captain Bornsdorff
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
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Man Hunt
Title: Man Hunt
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman.
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So Ends Our Night
Title: So Ends Our Night
Character: German Official
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Officer
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Hidden Enemy
Title: Hidden Enemy
Character: Professor Werner
Released: January 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Reporter vs. German spies and their new metal.
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Pack Up Your Troubles
Title: Pack Up Your Troubles
Character: Mueller
Released: October 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Three American soldiers help a young girl deliver a secret message across enemy lines.
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Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: Foreign Official
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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Nurse Edith Cavell
Title: Nurse Edith Cavell
Character: German Firing Squad Officer
Released: August 31, 1939
Type: Movie
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
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Conspiracy
Title: Conspiracy
Character: Second-Mate Wilso
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, swims ashore to avoid arrest. A woman he meets at the dock hides him in her apartment, where he learns Carlson was her brother, and they both work in a sabotage ring. Nedra is a singer at Tio's Cafe, and she approaches Tio for help when both the saboteurs and the secret police try to capture Steve.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: Captain von Eichen
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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Panama Patrol
Title: Panama Patrol
Character: Marlin (as William von Brincken)
Released: March 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal.
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Navy Secrets
Title: Navy Secrets
Character: Cronjer
Released: February 8, 1939
Type: Movie
After a stamp-collecting Navy chief petty officer is jailed following FBI and Naval Justice investigation, his fiancee meets one of his fellow officers, becomes romantically interested in him, and joins him in trying to get an envelope, believed to contain rare stamps, to its intended recipient, only to end up in a web of intrigue involving foreign-accented men who are unusually interested in that simple envelope.
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The Mexicali Kid
Title: The Mexicali Kid
Character: Frederick Gorson
Released: September 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Looking for the killer of his brother, Jack saves the outlaw known as the Mexicali Kid who had collapsed on the desert. Jack joins up with the Kid who leads him to Gorson. Gorson is after a ranch and gets Jack to pose as the heir to the ranch. After the papers are signed he plans to have jack killed. But the Kid recognizes Gorson's henchmen as the men Jack is after and decides to help him.
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Title: Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Character: Dr. Stern
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
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International Crime
Title: International Crime
Character: Flotow
Released: April 23, 1938
Type: Movie
The second and final Grand National Pictures film to feature The Shadow, played again by Rod La Rocque. In this version, Lamont Cranston is an amateur detective and host of a radio show with his assistant Phoebe (not Margo) Lane. Cabbie Moe Shrevnitz and Commissioner Weston also appear.
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Invisible Enemy
Title: Invisible Enemy
Character: Foreign Diplomat
Released: April 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
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Thank You, Mr. Moto
Title: Thank You, Mr. Moto
Character: Schneider
Released: December 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Mr. Moto Heads to China on a quest for seven ancient scrolls that reveal the location of Genghis Khan's tomb—a crypt filled with fabulous treasure! But Moto isn't the only one stalking the scrolls—so is a shadowy band of thieves. But when his ruthless rivals go too far, the mild-mannered detective's quest for antiquities becomes a passion for vengeance—because if he can't bring these villains to justice... he'll bring them to their knees.
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Wallaby Jim of the Islands
Title: Wallaby Jim of the Islands
Character: Adolph Richter, Pearl Hunter
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Wallaby Jim and his men have just found a valuable source of pearls in the South Pacific. But Jim's associate Norman has put the whole operation in jeopardy because of his gambling problem. Jim's unscrupulous rival Richter decides to exploit the situation by jumping Jim's claim and trying to take over for himself.
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Title: The Prisoner of Zenda
Character: Krafstein (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1937
Type: Movie
An Englishman who resembles the king of a small European nation gets mixed up in palace intrigue when his look-alike is kidnapped.
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They Gave Him a Gun
Title: They Gave Him a Gun
Character: German Captain (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1937
Type: Movie
With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.
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Espionage
Title: Espionage
Character: Legation Officer
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
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Dracula's Daughter
Title: Dracula's Daughter
Character: Lead Transylvanian Gendarme
Released: May 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
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The Gay Bride
Title: The Gay Bride
Character: German Official (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
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Flirting with Danger
Title: Flirting with Danger
Character: Von Kruger
Released: December 1, 1934
Type: Movie
Three brash and cocky powder mixers are sent to South America to work at a dynamite plant there.
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Crimson Romance
Title: Crimson Romance
Character: Von Gering
Released: October 12, 1934
Type: Movie
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force. There, both men fall in love with ambulance driver Alida Hoffman. When America enters the war, Bob is caught between loyalty to his home country and the threat of execution for desertion and treason to Germany. It remains for his friend Fred to extricate him from the dilemma - but at what cost?
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Fugitive Road
Title: Fugitive Road
Character: Lieutenant Berne
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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I'll Tell the World
Title: I'll Tell the World
Character: Joseph
Released: April 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
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Shanghai Madness
Title: Shanghai Madness
Character: von Uhlenberg
Released: August 3, 1933
Type: Movie
In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildeth off at a mission for safety, but when his boat returns the mission is being attacked by communists.
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Storm at Daybreak
Title: Storm at Daybreak
Character: Hungarian Officer (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1933
Type: Movie
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
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The Match King
Title: The Match King
Character: Marta's Companion (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
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Under-Cover Man
Title: Under-Cover Man
Character: Maitre d' at Padlock Club
Released: December 2, 1932
Type: Movie
When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.
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6 Hours to Live
Title: 6 Hours to Live
Character: Reporter
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
A murder victim is brought back to life by a scientific experiment. However, the effects only last for six hours, and he must find his killer in that time.
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A Passport to Hell
Title: A Passport to Hell
Character: Officer
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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East Lynne
Title: East Lynne
Character: Prussian Officer
Released: March 1, 1931
Type: Movie
The refined Lady Isabel Carlisle, after leaving her family and enduring nearly a decade of hardships, learns that her son has fallen ill. Despite being nearly blinded as the result of an explosion, she returns home to see her son again.
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Command Performance
Title: Command Performance
Character: Capt. Boyer
Released: January 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Prince Alexis of Kordovia refuses to do his duty under threat of war. Recently arrested actor Peter Fedor conveniently bears a striking resemblance to the prince. The King and Queen hatch a plan to force the prince to do his duty.
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Hell's Angels
Title: Hell's Angels
Character: Von Richter (uncredited)
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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A Royal Flush
Title: A Royal Flush
Released: October 19, 1930
Type: Movie
A maid masquerades as a countess in order to help her lion-hunting mistress.
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Leathernecking
Title: Leathernecking
Character: Richter
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Chick Evans is a Marine private in Honolulu, Hawaii. He falls for society girl Delphine Witherspoon, and begins to scheme as to how to win her over.
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Three Faces East
Title: Three Faces East
Character: Capt. Kugler
Released: July 18, 1930
Type: Movie
The action takes place during the Great War in the home of the First Lord of the Admiralty.
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Inside the Lines
Title: Inside the Lines
Character: Chief, Secret Service
Released: July 5, 1930
Type: Movie
During World War I, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.
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This Mad World
Title: This Mad World
Character: Victoria's Husband - the German General
Released: April 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Parisot, a French spy in World War 1, returns home on a secret mission to visit his mother, and finds that Victoria, the wife of a German general, is billeted in the Parisot home while waiting to see her husband. Victoria discovers that Paul is a spy and, although fascinated by him, plans to reveal his identity to her husband. When the latter is unable to visit her, she attempts to go to the German army headquarters.
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Mamba
Title: Mamba
Character: Major von Shultz
Released: March 9, 1930
Type: Movie
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.
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Condemned
Title: Condemned
Character: Vidal's Orderly
Released: November 3, 1929
Type: Movie
Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges.
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The Wedding March
Title: The Wedding March
Character: Imperial Guard
Released: October 6, 1928
Type: Movie
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.
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Sally, Irene and Mary
Title: Sally, Irene and Mary
Character: Party Reveler
Released: December 27, 1925
Type: Movie
The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love.