Fred Goebel

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Fred Goebel (also Fred Selva-Goebel , born Walter Goebel ; born April 3, 1891 in Berlin , † May 16, 1964 in Stuttgart ) was a German actor .

Life

The native Walter Goebel received a year and a half instruction in the building trade, the practical preliminary stage to the engineering profession, before 1910. At the age of almost 20 he began a two-year acting training at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. From 1913 Goebel received his artistic stamping under Leopold Jessner at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg , from 1915 to 1917 he performed in Vienna . In 1917/18 Fred Goebel served at the front.

The Berliner made his first cinematic attempts as Fred Selva-Goebel before the outbreak of World War I , with leading roles alongside Senta Eichstaedt in the Miss Nobody detective film series. In 1913 he was Vivian Dartin in The Secret of Chateau Richmond and in the same year the original British gentleman Phileas Fogg in The Hunt for the Hundred Pound Note or The Journey Around the World .

Immediately after the end of the war in November 1918 Goebel continued his work in film and the stage (including Berlin's Trianon Theater ). Initially still operating as Fred Selva-Goebel or Walter Goebel, Goebel played leading and supporting roles in numerous silent film productions of minor importance. In many cases he embodied impeccable aristocrats such as Count Fedor in Kinder der Landstrasse , the Chevalier de Grieux in Manon Lescaut , Kurt von Heindorf in The Yellow Face , Count Alexandrow in A Demimonde Marriage , Count Dornburg in Spiritism , Count Axel Gyllenberg in Manegerausch and Lord Henry Retcliffe in The She-Wolf .

Goebel was also frequently cast in talkies, mostly he had to be content with batch roles for a few seconds. Fred Goebel has also worked as a voice actor on a significant number of foreign films . At the Berlin Komödienhaus he found his last stage engagement in the 1941/42 season.

After the war, Goebel, who was no longer active in film, lived in Stuttgart, where he only found employment as a radio play speaker, before he died there at the age of 73.

Filmography

Radio plays

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to the film archive Kay Less
personal data
SURNAME Goebel, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Selva-Goebel, Fred (full name); Goebel, Walter (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1964
Place of death Stuttgart