Adolf Edgar Licho
Adolf Edgar Licho , born in Edgar Adolf Lichowetzer (born September 13, 1876 in Kremenchuk , Russian Empire , † October 11, 1944 in Los Angeles ) was a Russian actor , theater director , theater director , film director and screenwriter .
Life
Licho was supposed to be studying medicine, but instead performed in Russian smack theaters since the early 1890s . In 1897 he first appeared on stage in Vienna at the Volkstheater there . In 1898 he played at the Theater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich , in 1899 at the Salzburg City Theater . In 1900 he came to Berlin at the Secession stage there. In 1901 he returned to the Volksbühne Wien, and in 1902 he was committed to the Small Theater in Berlin.
He lived in the capital of the Reich for the following years, appeared on various theaters there and at times headed the theater in Königgrätzer Strasse , the Volksbühne and the German Theater for a year . He himself played mainly on the Reinhardt stages . There he met his future wife Martha Angerstein . From 1914 to 1918 he headed the Albert Theater in Dresden , where Hasenclever's Der Sohn (1914) and Antigone (1917) were premiered.
In film, Licho was almost something of a "total filmmaker": He worked as an actor (as a character actor mostly in supporting roles), participated as a co-writer on scripts, directed and had his own distributor (Licho-Film-Verleih GmbH) . After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he emigrated to Vienna in 1937 to Paris . In November 1940 he entered the USA via Bilbao. In Hollywood , where he shot people behind bars in 1931 , he was given tiny roles in American productions during the war years. He also ran a coffee bar.
Filmography (as an actor)
- 1913: guilty
- 1918: Germinating Life (2 parts)
- 1918: The foreign prince
- 1918: The yellow note
- 1920: From morning to midnight
- 1920: The red poster (2 parts)
- 1920: The death shaft
- 1920: The white peacock
- 1920: life and lies
- 1920: Madame Récamier
- 1920: Whitechapel. A chain of pearls and adventures
- 1921: Rosvolsky's mistress
- 1921: The enigmatic will / the legacy of the van Diemen
- 1921: Traveling people
- 1921: Derailed
- 1921: Fateful Day (director only)
- 1921: erring souls
- 1922: Tiefland (director only)
- 1922: sacrifice of women
- 1922: Playing with the Woman (only direction)
- 1922: The golden network
- 1922: The Count of Charolais
- 1922: Kinder der Zeit (also director and screenplay)
- 1922: Lucrezia Borgia
- 1924: Falling Into Happiness (only direction)
- 1924: Kaddisch (also direction and production)
- 1924: comedians
- 1925: The humble and the dancer
- 1925: The city of temptation
- 1925: The adventure of Sybille Brant / By a hair
- 1926: Mr. Filip Collins Adventure
- 1927: The Blessed Excellency (also direction and screenplay)
- 1927: The love of Jeanne Ney
- 1927: Luther - A film of the German Reformation
- 1928: Charlott a little crazy (only direction)
- 1929: Scandal in Baden-Baden
- 1930: mandrake
- 1930: My daughter's tutor
- 1931: 1914, the last days before the world fire
- 1931: Grock
- 1931: Victoria and her hussar
- 1931: people behind bars
- 1931: The Duke of Reichstadt (only script)
- 1931: Reserve has peace
- 1932: Diva represented
- 1932: What does Uncle Emil say about it? (Short film, also director and screenplay)
- 1933: The big bluff / Everything is a comedy
- 1933: The will of Dr. Mabuse
- 1934: All's well that ends bad
- 1935: Diary of the beloved
- 1935: Boards that mean the world
- 1936: Katharina the last
- 1936: Skeppsbrutne Max / Rendezvous in Paradise
- 1938: Three Waltzes (Les Trois valses)
- 1938: Le drame de Shanghai
- 1938: In the spy's network (Gibraltar)
- 1938: Chéri-Bibi
- 1941: Manhunt (Man Hunt)
- 1941: It Started with Eve (It Started with Eve)
- 1942: Reunion in France
- 1942: To be or not (To Be or Not to Be)
- 1942: There were once honeymoon (Once Upon a Honeymoon)
- 1943: Ambassador to Moscow (Mission to Moscow)
- 1943 Hazardous honeymoon (Above Suspicion)
- 1943: Hitler's Madman
- 1944: Witness wanted (Phantom Lady)
- 1944: The White Cliffs of Dover
- 1944 The Mask of Dimitrios (The Mask of Dimitrios)
- 1944: The Seventh Cross (The Seventh Cross)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Declaration of Intention, No. 105618, issued in Los Angeles on April 4, 1941. Source: ancestry.com
Web links
- Adolf E. Licho in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Adolf Edgar Licho at filmportal.de
literature
- Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than is given ..." Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. Acabus-Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 306 f.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Licho, Adolf Edgar |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lichowetzer, Edgar Adolf (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian actor, theater director, theater director, film director and screenwriter |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1876 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kremenchuk |
DATE OF DEATH | October 11, 1944 |
Place of death | los Angeles |