Adolf Edgar Licho

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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)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Declaration of Intention, No. 105618, issued in Los Angeles on April 4, 1941. Source: ancestry.com

Web links

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
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