Bruno Decarli
Bruno Decarli (born March 15, 1877 in Dresden , † March 31, 1950 in Tiverton , Devon , United Kingdom ; birth name: Bruno Alfred Franz Eduard Schmidt ) was a German theater actor with short but intensive work in silent films.
Life
The son of the court opera singer and theater actor Eduard Decarli (actually Eduard Schmidt) made his theater debut in Meiningen in 1895 . A year later he went to Zurich , then came via Gera , Dresden (where he lived with his father in Radebeul in 1903) and Berlin in 1908 to the Leipzig City Theater, to which he was to remain loyal until the beginning of the First World War . He was a member of the Leipzig Masonic Lodge Balduin zur Linde .
In 1915 Max Reinhardt brought him back to the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. Decarli began his film work the following year. He mainly played leading roles in dramas, crime films and melodramas, and several times he had the then top stars Henny Porten and Mia May as partners. At times, towards the end of the First World War, Decarli had his own film series. For a short time, in 1919/20, he also worked as a director and producer.
At the beginning of 1923 Decarli returned to the stage and played almost exclusively (until all German venues were closed in the summer of 1944) at the Saxon State Theaters in Dresden. Decarli, who remained unemployed after 1945, hardly appeared in front of the camera. The last snow-white-haired actor, who had received his last film role in The Queen's Heart with Zarah Leander , died in 1950 in Tiverton, England, County Devon.
Filmography
- 1916: Loosened chains
- 1916: The wandering light
- 1916: The man in the mirror
- 1917: The mermaid queen
- 1917: The love of Hetty Raymond
- 1917: The other's conscience
- 1917: The judge
- 1917: swapped souls
- 1917: fear
- 1918: The homecoming of Odysseus
- 1918: the winners
- 1918: The family of the von Ringwall
- 1918: The ruby salamander
- 1918: Miss Mother
- 1919: The Naked
- 1919: morphine
- 1919: Jettatore
- 1919: The mistress of the world
- 1919: The Temple Robber
- 1919: Rebel love
- 1919: sins of parents
- 1919: The Shepherd of Maria Schnee (also production)
- 1919: The Poison in Woman (also director)
- 1919: Störtebeker (also production)
- 1920: Uriel Acosta (also production)
- 1920: Brigantenrache (also production)
- 1920: Maria Schnee's shepherd
- 1921: The Uncanny (also production)
- 1922: Notes of Death
- 1922: a new life (De bruut)
- 1922: The love arbor
- 1922: A glass of water
- 1923: The man in the iron mask
- 1935: Victoria
- 1938: Life can be so beautiful
- 1940: The Queen's Heart
theatre
- 1932: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : Götz von Berlichingen (Götz) - Director: Josef Gielen ( Sächsische Staatstheater Dresden - Schauspielhaus)
literature
- E. Lebensaft, H. Reitterer: Eduard Johann Schmidt, artist name Decarli. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 250 f. (Direct links on p. 250 , p. 251 ).
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 326.
Web links
- Bruno Decarli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Life data completed on the basis of written information from the Radebeul City Archives from the civil status file, as of April 30, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Decarli, Bruno |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Bruno Alfred Franz Eduard (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1950 |
| Place of death | Tiverton , England, UK |