Carl Jaffe
Carl Heinz Jaffe (born March 21, 1902 in Hamburg ; died April 12, 1974 in London ; born Karl-Heinz Jaffé ) was a German-British actor .
Life
Carl Jaffé was the son of the doctor Carl Benedict Jaffé and Adele Robinow. At the age of 15 he already played temporarily at the Niederdeutsche Bühne Hamburg with Richard Ohnsorg and began as a trainee at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden at the age of 18 . After a stopover in Kassel , he came to Berlin , where he appeared on stage in the field of youthful heroes alongside many well-known actors such as Elisabeth Bergner , Fritz Kortner and the young Gustaf Gründgens .
In 1931 he played Winnetou in a production of the same name in Berlin.
Because of the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Jaffe, who was of Jewish origin, changed his name to Frank Alwar and worked for some time at the Renaissance theater . In 1935/36 he was an actor in the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden in Hamburg. In the summer of 1936 he emigrated to London, where he played in German-language theater plays that same year, some of which he directed himself. In 1937 he got an engagement at a London West End theater .
During the Second World War he appeared frequently in British war and propaganda films as an unsympathetic German Wehrmacht officer. From June 1945 he taught German radio listeners in English for the BBC . Even after the end of the war he played cool, dodgy characters and again and again elegant but malicious Nazis in numerous small supporting roles. Jaffe was married and they had two children. He became a British citizen in 1947.
Filmography
- 1931: Laundry-washing-welfare (industrial film)
- 1939: Over the Moon
- 1943: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
- 1944: The Man from Morocco (The Man From Morocco )
- 1948: Das tanzende Wien (The Dancing Years)
- 1949: I Was a Male War Bride (I Was a Male War Bride)
- 1950: state secret ( State Secret )
- 1950: The Black Rose
- 1951: Five Girls and One Man (A Tale of Five Cities)
- 1952: Ivanhoe - The Black Knight (Ivanhoe)
- 1953: Seconds of Desperation ( Desperate Moment )
- 1953: The Blonde Spy (Park Plaza 605)
- 1954: Betrayed ( Betrayed )
- 1956: In the claws of the gangsters ( House of Secrets )
- 1958: With 1000 volts to death ( escapement )
- 1959: Rocket 510 (First Man into Space)
- 1959: Subway in the Sky
- 1960: Secret files M (Man on a String)
- 1961: The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
- 1967: The Double Man (The Double Man)
literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 189.
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 562
Web links
- Carl Jaffe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jaffe, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Karl-Heinz Jaffé; Carl Jaffe; Frank Alwar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 21, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 12, 1974 |
| Place of death | London |