Adolf Wohlbrück

Adolf Wohlbrück

Born: November 19, 1896
Died: August 9, 1967
in Wien, Austria
Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück (19 November 1896 – 9 August 1967) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook.

Movies for Adolf Wohlbrück...

Robert und Elisabeth
Title: Robert und Elisabeth
Released: December 8, 1966
Type: Movie
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Der Arzt am Scheideweg
Title: Der Arzt am Scheideweg
Character: Sir Colenso Ridgeon
Released: July 10, 1963
Type: Movie
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Laura
Title: Laura
Character: Waldo Lydecker
Released: July 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The detective investigating Laura Hunt's murder finds himself becoming obsessed with the dead woman only to find out she's actually still alive.
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Venus im Licht
Title: Venus im Licht
Character: Herzog von Altair
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: Movie
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I Accuse!
Title: I Accuse!
Character: Maj. Esterhazy
Released: March 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
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Saint Joan
Title: Saint Joan
Character: Cauchon - Bishop of Beauvais
Released: May 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
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Lola Montès
Title: Lola Montès
Character: Ludwig I. von Bayern
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
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Oh... Rosalinda!!
Title: Oh... Rosalinda!!
Character: Dr. Falke
Released: November 21, 1955
Type: Movie
In post-war Vienna, Rosalinda and her husband become embroiled in a series of complicated escapades that puts their marital bliss at risk.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Grégoire Waremme
Released: June 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace the sources of the case to uncover the truth.
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Le Plaisir
Title: Le Plaisir
Character: Narrator, German version
Released: February 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.
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Vienna Waltzes
Title: Vienna Waltzes
Character: Johann Strauss (Vater)
Released: June 17, 1951
Type: Movie
A biography of the composer Johann Strauss.
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Title: Deutscher Filmpreis
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: TV
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König für eine Nacht
Title: König für eine Nacht
Character: Graf von Lerchenbach
Released: December 22, 1950
Type: Movie
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La Ronde
Title: La Ronde
Character: Raconteur - le meneur de jeu
Released: September 27, 1950
Type: Movie
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
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The Queen of Spades
Title: The Queen of Spades
Character: Capt. Herman Suvorin
Released: March 16, 1949
Type: Movie
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
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The Red Shoes
Title: The Red Shoes
Character: Boris Lermontov
Released: September 6, 1948
Type: Movie
In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
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The Man from Morocco
Title: The Man from Morocco
Character: Karel Langer
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
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Information Please
Title: Information Please
Character: German Major
Released: March 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Instructional military film that shows the many deceptive ways that Germans might extract valuable information from British prisoners-of-war.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Title: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Character: Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
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49th Parallel
Title: 49th Parallel
Character: Peter
Released: November 24, 1941
Type: Movie
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
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Dangerous Moonlight
Title: Dangerous Moonlight
Character: Stefan 'Steve' Radetzky
Released: June 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
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Gaslight
Title: Gaslight
Character: Paul Mallen (as Anton Wahlbrook)
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
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Sixty Glorious Years
Title: Sixty Glorious Years
Character: Prince Albert
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
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The Rat
Title: The Rat
Character: Jean Boucheron, the 'Rat'
Released: November 11, 1937
Type: Movie
Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
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Victoria the Great
Title: Victoria the Great
Character: Prince Albert
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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The Soldier and the Lady
Title: The Soldier and the Lady
Character: Michel Strogoff
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke Vladimir. On the train journey, Michael befriends a traveler and comes into contact with a mysterious spy, who both unexpectedly aid him in his quest. Once behind enemy lines, Michael is near his hometown and his mother, whom he must avoid in order to fulfill his mission.
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Port-Arthur
Title: Port-Arthur
Character: Boris Ranewsky
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
French-language remake of Port Arthur (1936): espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.
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Port Arthur
Title: Port Arthur
Character: Boris Ranewsky
Released: December 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Espionage, war and romance in the Far East in 1904: Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky marries Youki, the sister of a fanatical Japanese officer, but war is imminent.
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Allotria
Title: Allotria
Character: Philip
Released: June 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Best friends David and Philip have to end their love affair with their mistress Aimée which they - not knowing of each other - share, because they are going to marry their sweethearts Gaby and Viola. Of course Aimée will not accept her defeat. She interferes the engagement of Gaby and David, which lead to some turbulence and change of horses before they all end up in their honeymoon.
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The Czar's Courier
Title: The Czar's Courier
Character: Michael Strogoff
Released: April 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A Czarist courier has to get across the Siberia frontier, threatened by Tartar invaders and a treacherous Russian helping them. Strogoff encounters several colorful characters along the way. German language version of the French film Michel Strogoff, adapting the novel by Jules Verne.
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Michel Strogoff
Title: Michel Strogoff
Character: Michel Strogoff
Released: March 10, 1936
Type: Movie
The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines.On his way he encounters a number of adventures.
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The Student of Prague
Title: The Student of Prague
Character: Balduin, der Student
Released: December 10, 1935
Type: Movie
Prague in the 1860s: Balduin is a popular, handsome student, the best fencer in town, in amicable rivalry with his friend Dahl for the affections of Lydia, the innkeeper's niece. While the students are celebrating Lydia's birthday, the opera singer Julia Stella arrives at the inn - and Balduin's life begins to unravel. He is immediately infatuated with the glamorous singer - but she is already kept by an admirer, the wealthy and foppish Baron Waldis. How can a poor student hope to compete? The mysterious Dr. Carpis, who also has ties to Julia and is jealous of the Baron, intervenes. But the price will be higher than Balduin can ever imagine. He risks his sanity and his life - perhaps his very soul - haunted by his own reflection.
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I Was Jack Mortimer
Title: I Was Jack Mortimer
Character: Ferdinand 'Fred' Sponer
Released: October 16, 1935
Type: Movie
The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersection from the backseat of his taxi. The shot is not heard during the traffic noise. The taxi driver, Sponer, sitting in his car with the now-dead Mortimer, goes into a panic.
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Gypsy Baron
Title: Gypsy Baron
Character: Sandor
Released: July 5, 1935
Type: Movie
An Hungarian young man hides his real identity as baron Barinkay until he returns to his birthplace and claims the family properties, now occupied by a clumsy pig dealer who has a beautiful daughter. The gypsy girl is not bad looking either, and the gypsies are willing to help him recover his home and fortune. French version of Der Zigeunerbaron based on the Strauss operetta, filmed at the same time with a different cast except for Wohlbrück.
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The Gypsy Baron
Title: The Gypsy Baron
Character: Sandor Barinkay
Released: April 16, 1935
Type: Movie
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Regine
Title: Regine
Character: Frank Reynold
Released: January 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Frank returns to his homeland as an engineer, falls in love with Regine, the housemaid of his uncle, and marries her. Thanks to the intrigues of Floris, one of Frank's rejects, Regine is suspected of having an affair with another man. Depressed and desperate, she intends to commit suicide, but is saved by Frank in the last minute.
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Die englische Heirat
Title: Die englische Heirat
Character: Warwick Brent
Released: October 31, 1934
Type: Movie
Georg Alexander plays Douglas Mavis, the son of a rich English family who falls in love with a Berlin girl (Renate Müller) and marries her. However, he doesn't tell his family, and for a reason: the resolute head of the family (played by the inimitable Adele Sandrock) has other designs for her grandson. Further complications arise when the family lawyer (Adolf Wohlbrück) gets to know the Berlin lady without knowing who she is. And meanwhile, Mavis meets an alluring lady from a cabaret (Hilde Hildebrand).
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Masquerade in Vienna
Title: Masquerade in Vienna
Character: Der Zeichner Heideneck
Released: September 27, 1934
Type: Movie
After a masked carnival ball, Gerda Harrandt, wife of the surgeon Carl Ludwig Harrandt, allows the fashionable artist Ferdinand von Heidenick to paint a portrait of her wearing only a mask and a muff. This muff however belongs to Anita Keller, in secret the painter's lover but also the fiancée of the court orchestra director Paul Harrandt. The picture is then published in the newspaper. When Paul sees it and asks von Heidenick some questions about the identity of the model, the artist is forced to improvise a story and on the spur of the moment invents a woman called Leopoldine Dur as the alleged model. Leopoldine Dur however turns out to be a real woman whose acquaintance Heidenick makes shortly afterwards.
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Eine Frau die weiß, was sie will
Title: Eine Frau die weiß, was sie will
Character: Axel Basse
Released: August 30, 1934
Type: Movie
Woman concert singer seeks to connect with her adult daughter, by her former marriage to a staid industrialist who has kept the two apart since the daughter was a small child, and gets inadvertent help from the industrialist's fired employee who has fallen in love with the girl.
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Die vertauschte Braut
Title: Die vertauschte Braut
Character: Charles
Released: April 16, 1934
Type: Movie
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Georges et Georgette
Title: Georges et Georgette
Character: Robert
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
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Victor and Victoria
Title: Victor and Victoria
Character: Robert
Released: December 27, 1933
Type: Movie
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick colleague, the slap-stick actor Viktor, at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works as a female impersonator. By chance, Susanne is then "discovered" by an agent, who thinks she′s really a man. She becomes famous and goes on tour to London. But when the local womanizer Robert catches on to her game, Viktor then has to jump in for Susanne as "Viktoria".
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Don't Be Afraid of Love
Title: Don't Be Afraid of Love
Character: Helmut Höfert
Released: December 12, 1933
Type: Movie
The unemployed secretary Käte applies a job by mistake in the piano factory of the entrepreneur Helmut Hofert. He does not really have any need for an additional secretary at the moment, but Käte is very attractive.
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Waltz War
Title: Waltz War
Character: Johann Strauß
Released: October 3, 1933
Type: Movie
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Baby
Title: Baby
Character: Lord Cecil
Released: December 19, 1932
Type: Movie
The daughter of the Parisian countess Lafitte, named "Baby", is supposed to go to an English boarding school, but she's much more interested in variety shows. Nevertheless, she travels with her friend Susette to London, who also wants to make a career for herself as a showgirl. During the journey, Baby is mistakenly considered to be a showgirl and she does nothing to dissuade two young English lords from believing so. The girls continue to live under false pretenses even when they arrive in England, with Baby being a soloist with the group "Babies" and Suzette passing herself off as the Contessa Lafitte for school exams. At the end -- a double marriage.
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Right to Happiness
Title: Right to Happiness
Character: Kapellmeister
Released: April 24, 1932
Type: Movie
Herr Hoffmann is a famous widowed singer with a young daughter to raise, aided by his faithful manager. They meet a girl and Hoffmann falls for her, reluctant to believe that in fact she is in love with a musician.
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The Five Accursed Gentlemen
Title: The Five Accursed Gentlemen
Character: Petersen
Released: March 23, 1932
Type: Movie
European tourists on holiday in Morocco are threatened by a native sorcerer who predicts five of them will die, one by one, before the full moon.
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Three from the stamp office
Title: Three from the stamp office
Character: Max Binder, Arbeitsloser
Released: February 24, 1932
Type: Movie
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The Pride of Company Three
Title: The Pride of Company Three
Character: Prinz Willibald
Released: January 4, 1932
Type: Movie
The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment.
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Trapeze
Title: Trapeze
Character: Robby
Released: August 14, 1931
Type: Movie
Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.
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The Secret of Castle Elmshoh
Title: The Secret of Castle Elmshoh
Character: Ihr Sohn Axel
Released: July 8, 1925
Type: Movie
The Secret of Castle Elmshoh
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Das Geheimnis von Schloß Elmshöh
Title: Das Geheimnis von Schloß Elmshöh
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
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Martin Luther
Title: Martin Luther
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
Martin Luther
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Wüstenrausch
Title: Wüstenrausch
Character: Lord Burton
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
A romantic adventure set in the Sahara desert.
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Marionetten
Title: Marionetten
Character: Zirkusdirektor
Released: August 27, 1915
Type: Movie
Marionette by Richard Löwenbein