Albert von Kersten

Albert von Kersten (born December 31, 1889 in Fiume , † December 18, 1937 in Berlin ; born Albert von Klein ) was an Austrian actor .

Life

The officer's son attended the military academy and was first a cavalryman and then an aviator in the First World War. After the end of the war the Rittmeister was a. D. Actor.

He played at the Theater in der Josefstadt and other Viennese theaters, especially the Kammerspiele , the Schauspielhaus and the Jarno theaters. From the end of the 1920s he performed in Linz and from 1931 also in Berlin.

More important, however, was initially his career as a film actor, where he was used in the roles of heartbreakers , adventurers and officers. He took the title role in the adventure story Serge Panine . Since the late 1920s, however, von Kersten had to be content with less significant tasks.

Filmography

• 1921: The dead hand
• 1921: William Ratcliff
• 1922: People call it love
• 1922: Serge Panine
• 1922: The game is over
• 1922: Children of the Revolution
• 1922: Fatme's salvation
• 1923: Miss Mrs.
• 1924: The secret of writing
• 1924: Salambo
• 1925: Colonel Redl
• 1925: Pat and Patachon in the Prater
• 1926: The two and the lady
• 1926: The arsonists of Europe
• 1927: Café Elektric
• 1928: Girls at risk
• 1929: The missing woman
• 1929: Viennese heart
• 1930: The poacher
• 1930: The Volga girl
• 1930: the fate of a beautiful woman
• 1932: The Feldherrnhügel
• 1932: Quick
• 1932: When love makes fashion
• 1934: I long for you
• 1934: The island
• 1934: My life for Marie Isabell
• 1935: I was Jack Mortimer
• 1935: Artist's love

literature

• Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films , Volume 4, p. 367, Berlin 2001

Web links

• Albert von Kersten at filmportal.de
• Albert Kersten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Pictures by Albert von Kersten In: Virtual History