Max Schreck

Max Schreck

Born: September 6, 1879
Died: February 20, 1936
in Berlin, Germany
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Friedrich Gustav Max Schreck (6 September 1879 – 20 February 1936) was a German actor. He is most often remembered today for his lead role in the film Nosferatu (1922).

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Death Of The Rat
Title: Death Of The Rat
Character: Count Orlok (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2024
Type: Movie
After 95 years of comfortable living, Mickey finds his world turned upside down and must face his deepest fears. Will he emerge on the other side or lose himself trying?
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Speedball Nosferatu
Title: Speedball Nosferatu
Character: Count Orlok
Released: December 31, 2022
Type: Movie
One hundred years later, Count Orlok returns from the dead.
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Dracula Unearthed
Title: Dracula Unearthed
Character: Count Orlok (Archive Footage)
Released: October 31, 2022
Type: Movie
Commemorates 100 years since the release of the German classic, Nosferatu, by FW Murnau, and explores the general fascination of Count Dracula, a figure who resonates with audiences across the literary, art, mythological and historical worlds.
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Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk
Title: Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk
Character: Count Orlock / The Nosferatu (archive)
Released: March 9, 2014
Type: Movie
A reimagining /regurgitation and re-dubbing of a classic silent horror flick! Shot in mind-shattering 2D (& 36DD), featuring T&A and epic voice-over ‘voom’, by Ms. Ilham Otaku & Pepe Chingadero! Original 1922 star Max Schreck plays (in newly tinted archive footage, mixed, with new) Count Orlock, a deviant, adulterous, shape-shifting Transylvanian vampire aristocrat & super creep, who is tearing Bremen, a new corn-hole & it's up to a 'brotha-in-a-collar' and a creole nun with a flamin' gun, to stop him, in this 'creature-feature' fang-fest! Co-Starring Canadian Scream Queen: Vivita, with new footage shot in tantalizing Watt-a-Rama & dubbed in Tex-O-Phonic Super-Sound
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Dracula: The Vampire and the Voivode
Title: Dracula: The Vampire and the Voivode
Character: Nosferatu (archive footage)
Released: October 4, 2011
Type: Movie
This exhaustive documentary attempts to tell the history of Bram Stoker's influential novel Dracula, explaining both the historical antecedents to the story, as well as offering look at Stoker's life in order to help illuminate this enduring horror tale, and exposing some of the myths surrounding vampires that have long been accepted as fact.
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The Bathroom Mirror
Title: The Bathroom Mirror
Character: Graf Orlok (archival footage)
Released: August 18, 2008
Type: Movie
A young man encounters a dark force in this surreal and time twisting thriller.
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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Title: Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 2007
Type: Movie
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J. Ackerman, whose 85 year love affair with the genre helped bring it into the mainstream and shape the way we view science fiction today.
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The Many Faces of Dracula
Title: The Many Faces of Dracula
Character: Graf Orlok (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
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Title: SpongeBob SquarePants
Character: Nosferatu (archive footage)
Released: May 1, 1999
Type: TV
Deep down in the Pacific Ocean in the subterranean city of Bikini Bottom lives a square yellow sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants. SpongeBob lives in a pineapple with his pet snail, Gary, loves his job as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, and has a knack for getting into all kinds of trouble without really trying. When he's not getting on the nerves of his cranky next door neighbor Squidward, SpongeBob can usually be found smack in the middle of all sorts of strange situations with his best buddy, the simple yet lovable starfish, Patrick, or his thrill-seeking surfer-girl squirrel pal, Sandy Cheeks.
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Nosferatu: The First Vampire
Title: Nosferatu: The First Vampire
Character: Count Orlok (archive footage)
Released: March 15, 1998
Type: Movie
The horror classic, Nosferatu, remastered with a soundtrack by Type-O Negative and hosted by David Carradine.
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Dracula: Fact or Fiction?
Title: Dracula: Fact or Fiction?
Character: Count Orlok (archive footage)
Released: October 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Of all the creatures conjured up from the shadows of the human mind, none exerts such a terrifying grip on our imaginations as the immortal night-stalker, Dracula. But did this fiend actually exist? Are there such things as living vampires? Now, in this startling expose of the vampire legend, you'll meet the scholar who traveled Transylvania's eerie landscapes to unearth the real-life Count Dracula: the ghoulish 15th-century Romanian prince known and feared as "Vlad the Impaler."
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Title: Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Character: Graf Orlok (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
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Luzern Viper
Title: Luzern Viper
Character: Nosferatu
Released: October 27, 1988
Type: Movie
A Schmelzdahin short wherein a print of a portion of Nosferatu (including the iconic shot of the vampire on the boat) has been degraded and abstracted through the bacterialogical decomposition, disintegration, and chemical processes Schmelzdahin would use.
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Vincent Price's Dracula
Title: Vincent Price's Dracula
Character: Count Orlok - (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Vincent Price hosts this documentary exploring the historical myths surrounding vampires.
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The Horror of It All
Title: The Horror of It All
Character: Nosferatu (archive footage)
Released: February 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
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The Vampire
Title: The Vampire
Character: Nosferatu (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1945
Type: Movie
After a look at some strange creatures, the narrator and camera take us to the Chaco forest, on the borders of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, where a vampire bat lives, desmodus rotondus, attacking wildlife and domesticated creatures, killing small ones by draining all their blood and killing large ones by leaving a parasite in their bloodstream. Four inches long, with a 12-inch wingspread, we see it walk, approach a victim, pull out a patch of fur large enough for it to engage its teeth, then lap six or seven ounces of blood. Its saliva may be an anesthetic keeping its victims from waking. A stub nose and harelip contribute to its efficiency and its hideous look.
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Die letzten vier von Santa Cruz
Title: Die letzten vier von Santa Cruz
Character: William
Released: March 11, 1936
Type: Movie
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Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann
Title: Knockout – Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann
Released: March 1, 1935
Type: Movie
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The Steel Animal
Title: The Steel Animal
Released: January 9, 1935
Type: Movie
Klaassen receives a phone call, and he is happy with his transfer to head the railway line's controlling team. He accepts well his change of job, but when he meets his co-workers, uncultured and rough people, he starts having second thoughts. However, he takes it easy, recognizes that they're highly trained works, and teaches them a number of (flashback) stories of pioneers of the present steam train: the early invention by Denis Papin (1679); the three legendary land-surveyors of Caton Hill; the 1769 experiment by Nicolas-Joseph De Cugnot; the 1813 machine test of William Hedley; the 1829 developments by Robert Stephenson; and finally the grand opening of the first German steam railway line of Nürnberg-Fürth - stories in which man's will to conquer the machine was sometimes met with disaster.
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Ein Kuß in der Sommernacht
Title: Ein Kuß in der Sommernacht
Character: Herr Krause
Released: November 10, 1933
Type: Movie
Film by Franz Seitz.
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Der Tunnel
Title: Der Tunnel
Character: Chesterfield
Released: October 26, 1933
Type: Movie
The engineer MacAllan designs a tunnel, which will join America and Europe together on the seabed. A group of American billionaires are financing the gigantic project, but the construction of the tunnel is proving to be as tedious as it is dangerous. MacAllan's worst enemy is the speculator Woolf, who had embezzled the money for the construction and who is attempting to cover up his crime by carrying out acts of sabotage. Also filmed in 1933 in a French-language version, LE TUNNEL, and remade in 1935 in England as TRANSATLATIC TUNNEL.
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Fräulein Hoffmanns Erzählungen
Title: Fräulein Hoffmanns Erzählungen
Character: Diener
Released: August 24, 1933
Type: Movie
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Roman einer Nacht
Title: Roman einer Nacht
Character: Professor Kolski
Released: August 21, 1933
Type: Movie
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Boo
Title: Boo
Character: Dracula-Nosferatu (edited from "Nosferatu")
Released: December 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A wisecracking narrator mocks footage featuring Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula.
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The Bartered Bride
Title: The Bartered Bride
Character: Muff
Released: August 18, 1932
Type: Movie
Bohemia in the 19th century, stage-coach driver Hans, loves the mayor's daughter Marie, but she is promised Wenzel, the son of another wealthy farmer. Marie refuses to marry Wenzel because of Hans, but the marriage arranger tries to "buy" Marie from Hans. But when Wenzel tells Hans, that he doesn't want to marry Marie, either, because he loves circus director Brummel's daughter, Hans decides to accept the offer of money for not interferring in the relations of Hans and Marie. But when Marie hears about this, she doesn't want to see Hans again.
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The Night of Temptation
Title: The Night of Temptation
Character: Offizier
Released: August 8, 1932
Type: Movie
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The Twelfth Hour
Title: The Twelfth Hour
Character: Count Wolkoff
Released: May 16, 1930
Type: Movie
A version of Nosferatu to which sound was added. Some scenes were left out and new ones were added including a different ending. Additionally all the characters names were changed.
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Ludwig II, King of Bavaria
Title: Ludwig II, King of Bavaria
Released: March 10, 1930
Type: Movie
In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffers to the extreme. The monarch, who is afraid of people, also withdraws more and more into a dream world at his various castles. His brother is already in a psychiatric institute and Ludwig is also eventually put under the care of psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden. The king attempts to get out from under this guardianship at Starnberg lake…
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Fight of the Tertia
Title: Fight of the Tertia
Character: Benno Biersack
Released: January 18, 1929
Type: Movie
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Wolga Wolga
Title: Wolga Wolga
Released: November 15, 1928
Type: Movie
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Moderne Piraten
Title: Moderne Piraten
Character: Philipps
Released: October 24, 1928
Type: Movie
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Rasputins Liebesabenteuer
Title: Rasputins Liebesabenteuer
Character: Nikolai Nikolajewitsch
Released: September 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Portrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin, the mad monk had such a hold over them.
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Luther
Title: Luther
Character: Alexander
Released: February 16, 1928
Type: Movie
German silent film about the life of Martin Luther
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The Old Fritz II
Title: The Old Fritz II
Character: Kammerdiener Rietz
Released: January 28, 1928
Type: Movie
Silent epic on the final years of Frederick II.
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Lady Juan
Title: Lady Juan
Released: January 24, 1928
Type: Movie
A Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933). In adulthood, Juana's upbringing causes complications in her love life. Possibly an early example of genderqueer representation.
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The Old Fritz
Title: The Old Fritz
Character: Kammerdiener Rietz
Released: January 20, 1928
Type: Movie
Silent epic on the final years of Frederick II.
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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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At the Edge of the World
Title: At the Edge of the World
Character: Troedler
Released: September 18, 1927
Type: Movie
A mill situated on the border between two unnamed countries and the residents therein become pawns in a future war.
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Der Sohn der Hagar
Title: Der Sohn der Hagar
Released: March 24, 1927
Type: Movie
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Dudu, a Human Destiny
Title: Dudu, a Human Destiny
Released: January 22, 1924
Type: Movie
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The Finances of the Grand Duke
Title: The Finances of the Grand Duke
Character: der Unheimliche
Released: January 7, 1924
Type: Movie
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.
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The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop
Title: The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop
Character: Kunde
Released: December 31, 1923
Type: Movie
The Mysteries of a Hairdresser’s Shop describes the absurd goings-on of a by no means ordinary hair salon, where men with great beards wait in vain for a shave while the barber takes a nap.
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The Merchant of Venice
Title: The Merchant of Venice
Character: Doge of Venice
Released: October 12, 1923
Type: Movie
The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a free adaptation of "Merchant of Venice" written by Herr William Shakespeare. It is an elegant and expensive German film production that was shot on location in beautiful and decadent Venice with some of the most important Teutonic actors of the time: Henny Porten, Harry Liedtke und Werner Krauss and even the mysterious Max Schreck.
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The Street
Title: The Street
Character: The blind man
Released: January 1, 1923
Type: Movie
The movie follows two distinct plot lines until the two eventually merge: the first is that of the bored middle-aged man seeking a departure from monotony in his life; the second is that of the blind man and the little boy, his grandson, who are interdependent. None of the characters have been given names and are therefore referred to only by description. The city is an expressionistic nightmare, a dangerous and chaotic place.
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Nathan der Weise
Title: Nathan der Weise
Character: Grossmeister der Templeherren
Released: December 28, 1922
Type: Movie
Silent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan, the enlightened sultan Saladin and the (initially anonymous) Templar bridge their gaps between Judaism, Islam and Christianity.
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Nosferatu
Title: Nosferatu
Character: Count Orlok
Released: February 16, 1922
Type: Movie
In this highly influential silent horror film, the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen (Greta Schroeder). After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock (Alexander Granach), prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.
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The Mayor of Zalamea
Title: The Mayor of Zalamea
Character: Don Mendo
Released: October 28, 1920
Type: Movie
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ScreenPlaza presents: Nosferatu
Title: ScreenPlaza presents: Nosferatu
Character: Count Orlock
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
ScreenPlaza shares a new look in terror - The century old, terrifying horror film is redefined by an all-new soundtrack. Mixing modern and classical composition, this is a radical contemporary take on an old epic that should not go unnoticed.