Paul Wegener

Paul Wegener

Born: December 11, 1874
Died: September 13, 1948
in Arnoldsdorf, West Prussia, Germany [now Jarantowice, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]
Paul Wegener was a German actor known for his pioneering roles in Expressionist films. He can also be considered a father of horror for his breakout role in The Student of Prague (1913). Wegener maintained a career throughout and after the Nazi era, starring in his last film in 1948.

Movies for Paul Wegener...

Eyes of Love
Title: Eyes of Love
Character: Prof. Mochmann
Released: October 25, 1951
Type: Movie
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Der große Mandarin
Title: Der große Mandarin
Character: Mandarin
Released: February 18, 1949
Type: Movie
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Kolberg
Title: Kolberg
Character: Loucadou
Released: January 30, 1945
Type: Movie
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.
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The Molander Case
Title: The Molander Case
Character: Holk, Generalstaatsanwalt
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie
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Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen
Title: Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen
Character: Van der Kalk
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
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Diesel
Title: Diesel
Character: Direktor Buz
Released: February 9, 1943
Type: Movie
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Wenn die Sonne wieder scheint
Title: Wenn die Sonne wieder scheint
Character: Bauer Termöhlen
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
The Termoehlens belong to the old farming class in Flanders. Their estate does well and their flax is the best far and wide. And as is the custom, old Termoehlen is like a ruler over his family, the servants and the maidens. Even his son Ludwig, who has just returned from agricultural school with all his ideas on how to improve the farm, doesn’t stand a chance. When Ludwig falls in love with the maiden Rieneke – known as Schellebelle – his father become a despotic enemy.
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Hochzeit auf Bärenhof
Title: Hochzeit auf Bärenhof
Character: Leonhard von Krakow
Released: June 8, 1942
Type: Movie
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The Great King
Title: The Great King
Character: Gen. Czernitscheff
Released: March 2, 1942
Type: Movie
King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren't going well. The Austrians are inflicting major casualties, and his army is beginning to crumble. Defeat seems inevitable when a combination of events gives him hope that he may pull victory from the jaws of defeat after all.
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Das Mädchen von Fanö
Title: Das Mädchen von Fanö
Character: Ulerk Ohm
Released: January 24, 1941
Type: Movie
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My Life for Ireland
Title: My Life for Ireland
Character: Sir George Beverley
Released: January 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.
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Zwielicht
Title: Zwielicht
Character: Förster Kuhnert
Released: April 19, 1940
Type: Movie
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Das Recht auf Liebe
Title: Das Recht auf Liebe
Character: Herr von Salurn, Schloßgutsbesitzer in Tirol
Released: November 24, 1939
Type: Movie
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The Immortal Heart
Title: The Immortal Heart
Character: Dr. Schedel
Released: January 31, 1939
Type: Movie
Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith Peter Henlein is looking for a way to make bullets more accurate by designing a new form. Just as he welds together two round balls into an elongated shape, he believes he's discovered that his assistant Konrad is trying to alienate his wife from him. There is a struggle, during which Henlein's new kind of bullet strikes him in the chest. The doctor, unaware that there are two bullets lodged in his body, because there was only one shot, only removes one.
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In geheimer Mission
Title: In geheimer Mission
Character: Morrow
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
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Stärker als die Liebe
Title: Stärker als die Liebe
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
1938 German film.
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Der Mann mit der Pranke
Title: Der Mann mit der Pranke
Character: Wiegant, Präsident der Industrie-Bank
Released: October 30, 1935
Type: Movie
"The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in love with Lena Kroning, the wife of the lawyer Hugo Kroning. So as to be nearer to her, Wiegant hires her husband to be the bank's lawyer. Shortly thereafter, Wiegant is suspected of having conned the Countess Steindorff during a telephone conversation; but he never did. During the relevant period of time, he was with Lena "having tea" (uh huh), which he conceals from the lawyer-husband, so as to protect Lena.
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Only a Comedian
Title: Only a Comedian
Character: Staatsminister von Creven
Released: September 2, 1935
Type: Movie
A moving actor at the rococo era shows the power-hungry-crude minister of a small state prince in the barriers, while he makes use of his resemblance to the sovereign and slips in his role. - Double role for Rudolf Forster who plays his figures very much chilly.
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A Man Wants to Get to Germany
Title: A Man Wants to Get to Germany
Character: Ship Stoker
Released: July 25, 1934
Type: Movie
On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men.
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Inge and the Millions
Title: Inge and the Millions
Character: Bankier Seemann
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing their bankruptcies, and then trying to smuggle the cash into Switzerland.
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Hans Westmar
Title: Hans Westmar
Character: Kuprikoff
Released: December 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Nazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--who took part in street brawls and assassinations in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s against Communists and other opponents of the Nazis, and was killed by Communists not long before this film came out.
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Marshal Forward
Title: Marshal Forward
Character: Marschall Blücher
Released: November 23, 1932
Type: Movie
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The Mystery of Johann Orth
Title: The Mystery of Johann Orth
Character: Fürst Rostowsky Botschafter a.Wien
Released: November 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A Hapsburg archduke in the 1880s gives up his title, changes his name, marries a Viennese actress, and then disappears with her on a South American ocean voyage.
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The Living Dead
Title: The Living Dead
Character: Mörder
Released: September 6, 1932
Type: Movie
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. Remake of Unheimliche Geschichten (Richard Oswald, 1919).
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Fundvogel
Title: Fundvogel
Character: Professor Reutlinger
Released: May 19, 1930
Type: Movie
Young Jan Bergwall visits his grandmother, the so-called centenary, at Woyland Castle. There he meets his cousin Andrea, who everyone calls "Fundvogel". Jan is fascinated by the young girl's beauty, and soon there is an erotic tension in the air between the two. Although they both have strong feelings for each other, they are afraid to make a commitment, even though their domineering grandmother is determined that they marry. Panicked that he might feel obliged to marry Andrea, Jan escapes from this place. Andrea is deeply disappointed and seeks revenge. Out of spite, she becomes involved with the falconer Bartel and is later raped in a wooden hut. The centigress, concerned about morals and customs, then sends Fundvogel to a convent. She escapes from there and flees into the arms of Jan. When he learns from a letter from the countess what has happened to Andrea, he leaves her a second time. In her despair, Fundvogel then throws herself off a bridge into the floods with suicidal intent.
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A Daughter Of Destiny
Title: A Daughter Of Destiny
Character: Professor ten Brinken
Released: January 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
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The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Title: The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
Released: January 11, 1928
Type: Movie
Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who makes a pioneering flight across the Arctic accompanied only by Ippling, his faithful mechanic (Kurt Gerron). Near the North Pole, their plane develops engine failure and crashes in the desolate wastes. Ippling dies straight off but Ramper finds a supply base containing food which has been left behind by a previous expedition. After fifteen years in the Arctic wastes, Ramper has considerably mutated.
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Die Welt ohne Waffen
Title: Die Welt ohne Waffen
Character: Dr. Dankmar Tollen
Released: December 31, 1927
Type: Movie
An engineer develops a device that will disarm any electrically power device, in an attempt to prevent armed conflicts.
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Svengali
Title: Svengali
Character: Svengali
Released: September 6, 1927
Type: Movie
The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
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Arme kleine Sif
Title: Arme kleine Sif
Released: August 31, 1927
Type: Movie
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The Weavers
Title: The Weavers
Character: Fabrikant Dreißiger
Released: April 29, 1927
Type: Movie
Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
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Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Title: Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
Character: Vautrin
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict's grown up son.
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Dagfin
Title: Dagfin
Released: December 20, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Magician
Title: The Magician
Character: Oliver Haddo
Released: October 24, 1926
Type: Movie
A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.
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Der Mann aus dem Jenseits
Title: Der Mann aus dem Jenseits
Released: February 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Film by Manfred Noa.
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Living Buddhas
Title: Living Buddhas
Character: Großlama
Released: May 11, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Film in the Film
Title: The Film in the Film
Character: Himself
Released: June 26, 1924
Type: Movie
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
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S.O.S. Die Insel der Tränen
Title: S.O.S. Die Insel der Tränen
Released: November 1, 1923
Type: Movie
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Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen
Title: Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen
Character: Niels Nissen
Released: April 24, 1923
Type: Movie
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Das Liebesnest
Title: Das Liebesnest
Released: December 31, 1922
Type: Movie
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Monna Vanna
Title: Monna Vanna
Character: Guido Gursino
Released: December 21, 1922
Type: Movie
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Herzog Ferrantes Ende
Title: Herzog Ferrantes Ende
Character: Herzog Ferrante
Released: November 1, 1922
Type: Movie
In medieval Italy, a group of men plot to kill a cruel and despotic duke.
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Lucrezia Borgia
Title: Lucrezia Borgia
Character: Micheletto
Released: October 20, 1922
Type: Movie
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
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Vanina
Title: Vanina
Character: Gouverneur von Turin
Released: October 5, 1922
Type: Movie
Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she dies from grief.
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The Loves of Pharaoh
Title: The Loves of Pharaoh
Character: Samlak
Released: February 21, 1922
Type: Movie
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
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Roswolsky's Mistress
Title: Roswolsky's Mistress
Character: Eugen Roswolsky
Released: September 2, 1921
Type: Movie
Trying to kill herself, Mary is saved by rich Roswolsky.
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Der verlorene Schatten
Title: Der verlorene Schatten
Released: February 3, 1921
Type: Movie
Based on the novella Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte by Adelbert von Chamisso.
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Steuermann Holk
Title: Steuermann Holk
Character: Steuermann Holk
Released: November 14, 1920
Type: Movie
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The Golem: How He Came into the World
Title: The Golem: How He Came into the World
Character: The Golem
Released: October 28, 1920
Type: Movie
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
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Sumurun
Title: Sumurun
Character: Der alte Scheich
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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Der Galeerensträfling
Title: Der Galeerensträfling
Released: July 23, 1920
Type: Movie
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Figures of the Night
Title: Figures of the Night
Character: Thomas Bezug
Released: January 9, 1920
Type: Movie
"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage. His servants are defaced dwarfs. His secretary is trying to steal Bezugs assets. These are the night people.
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Madame DuBarry
Title: Madame DuBarry
Released: September 18, 1919
Type: Movie
The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Title: The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Character: Fahrender Spielmann (Traveling Minstrel)
Released: December 19, 1918
Type: Movie
A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse to pay him after he has done what he promised, he plays his tune again with consequences. This film survives in incomplete/fragmentary form.
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Sleeping Beauty
Title: Sleeping Beauty
Released: December 20, 1917
Type: Movie
An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
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Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
Title: Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
Character: Hans Trutz
Released: November 1, 1917
Type: Movie
A stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity.
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The Golem and the Dancing Girl
Title: The Golem and the Dancing Girl
Released: July 10, 1917
Type: Movie
As a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous.
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The Yoghi
Title: The Yoghi
Character: Yogi / Rasmus
Released: September 1, 1916
Type: Movie
An Indian mystic uses his power of invisibility to scare a young inventor.
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Rübezahl's Wedding
Title: Rübezahl's Wedding
Character: Ruebezahl
Released: January 1, 1916
Type: Movie
In this film, the people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a place where they can hold a picnic and a spring festival: ideally, a place where they can eventually erect dwellings and cultivate crops. Led by the local nobleman (Arthur Ehrens), they find an appropriate spot, and the festivities begin. Some children briefly perform a charming folk dance. Suddenly the Rübezahl arrives and threatens to kill all the townsfolk if they don't leave immediately.
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The Golem
Title: The Golem
Character: Golem
Released: January 15, 1915
Type: Movie
This mostly lost film is often confused with director Paul Wegener third and readily available interpretation of the legend; Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920). In this version of the golem legend, the golem, a clay statue brought to life by Rabbi Loew in 16th century Prague to save the Jews from the ongoing brutal persecution by the city's rulers, is found in the rubble of an old synagogue in the 20th century. Brought to life by an antique dealer, the golem is used as a menial servant. Eventually falling in love with the dealer's wife, it goes on a murderous rampage when its love for her goes unanswered.
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Evinrude
Title: Evinrude
Released: February 21, 1914
Type: Movie
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The Student of Prague
Title: The Student of Prague
Character: Balduin - A Student / Self
Released: August 22, 1913
Type: Movie
Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning.