Tonio Selwart

Tonio Selwart

Born: June 9, 1896
Died: November 2, 2002

Movies for Tonio Selwart...

The Other Side of the Wind
Title: The Other Side of the Wind
Character: The Baron
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles lifetime.
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Anzio
Title: Anzio
Character: Gen. Van MacKensen
Released: July 24, 1968
Type: Movie
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.
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Sign of Zorro
Title: Sign of Zorro
Released: April 5, 1963
Type: Movie
General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, terrorizes the people and demands high taxes. The young Ramon Martiney, after discovering that his father was murdered by Gutierrez, dons the mask of Zorro and starts fighting against the injustice.
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The Reluctant Saint
Title: The Reluctant Saint
Character: Examining Prelate
Released: November 2, 1962
Type: Movie
Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood.
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Romanoff and Juliet
Title: Romanoff and Juliet
Character: U.N. President
Released: June 8, 1961
Type: Movie
Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling in love.
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Five Branded Women
Title: Five Branded Women
Released: March 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
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The Fifth Column
Title: The Fifth Column
Released: January 29, 1960
Type: Movie
A TV film made as part of The Buick-Electra Playhouse.
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The Naked Maja
Title: The Naked Maja
Character: Aranda
Released: December 20, 1958
Type: Movie
A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba
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Congo Crossing
Title: Congo Crossing
Character: Carl Rittner
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Congotanga, West Africa, has no extradition laws; the government is controlled by foreign gangsters, headed by Carl Rittner. The latest plane from Europe carries lovely Louise Whitman, fleeing a French murder charge, and Mannering, who pays resident hit man O'Connell to kill her. Through a chain of circumstances Louise, O'Connell, and heroic surveyor David Carr end up alone in the jungle on Carr's mission to determine the true border of Congotanga... in which Rittner is keenly interested.
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Helen of Troy
Title: Helen of Troy
Character: Alpheus
Released: January 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
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Senso
Title: Senso
Character: Il Colonello Kleist
Released: December 30, 1954
Type: Movie
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
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The Barefoot Contessa
Title: The Barefoot Contessa
Character: Pretender
Released: September 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when the independently wealthy tycoon Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film.
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Night of Love
Title: Night of Love
Character: General Renner
Released: September 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Brigitte Bardot stars in this romantic thriller about love and high treason in WWI-era Italy. Matinee idol-turned-filmmaker Mario Bonnard directs this opus.
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My Favorite Spy
Title: My Favorite Spy
Character: Harry Crock
Released: December 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
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Frontier Wolf
Title: Frontier Wolf
Character: Peter
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A secret service agent is sent to investigate various acts of sabotage.
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Title: Studio One
Released: November 7, 1948
Type: TV
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
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Title: The Philco Television Playhouse
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: TV
The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.
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Strange Affair
Title: Strange Affair
Character: Leslie Carlson
Released: October 5, 1944
Type: Movie
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
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Wilson
Title: Wilson
Character: Count Von Bernstorff
Released: August 1, 1944
Type: Movie
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.
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Tampico
Title: Tampico
Character: Kruger
Released: April 10, 1944
Type: Movie
A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.
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The North Star
Title: The North Star
Character: German Captain
Released: November 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."
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Hangmen Also Die!
Title: Hangmen Also Die!
Character: Chief of Gestapo Kurt Haas
Released: April 15, 1943
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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Edge of Darkness
Title: Edge of Darkness
Character: German Corporal Paul
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.