Fred Louis Lerch

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Fred Louis Lerch 1928 on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Fred Louis Lerch , actually Alois Lerch , (born March 28, 1902 in Ernsdorf , Lower Austria , † August 26, 1985 in Munich ) was an Austrian film actor.

Life and movies

Fred Louis Lerch began his career as a film actor at the age of 20 with small roles in Austrian feature films, the titles of which are hardly known today. He appeared in Jakob and Luise Fleck's film The Daughter of Larsac's Wife (1924/25); the main female role in this film was played by the young Tessy Harrison , with whom Lerch then appeared in a supporting role in Max Neufeld's German-Austrian co-production Der Walzer von Strauss (1925). In 1926 he was seen alongside the Berlin cabaret artist Claire Waldoff in the German film fun play Der Jüngling aus der Konfektion . He then shot the Schnitzler adaptation Liebelei in Berlin ; Lerch played the main male role of the student Fritz Lobheimer. His partner was eighteen year old Evelyn Holt . Further roles as a lover followed in Austrian and increasingly also in German films.

By the male lead role in Jacques Feyders Carmen become internationally known, he played leading roles in 1927 in the German-Swedish co Sealed lips and beside Ruth Weyher and Margit Manstad in the triangle drama Dr. Monnier and the women , both of which were directed by Gustaf Molander . In 1928 he appeared as the main actor in two Richard Eichberg films : In Rutschbahn he played alongside Fee Malten and Heinrich George , and in Großstadtschmetterling he was seen as a Russian bohemian in Paris, who loves a beautiful Chinese woman with a dubious past and who, through his distrust, ins Misfortune falls. The title role in this film played the eminent Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong .

After four sound films, Lerch's acting career ended in 1932. He was only 30 years old at the time. It only reappeared twenty years later. As a manager he worked since 1951 for changing German film production companies , which at that time primarily home movies produced. The best-known films, for which he organized the shooting, were Rudolf Jugert's Anzengruber adaptation Der Meineidbauer (1956, with Carl Wery and Heidemarie Hatheyer ) and Little Man - Very Big (1957). Lerch was married to the actress Grete Reinwald .

Filmography

Actor:

  • 1922: People call it love - Director: Mano Zahl-Teschenbruck
  • 1923: The Portrait - Director: Jacques Feyder
  • 1923: Victims of Hate - Director: Hanns Marschall
  • 1924/25: The daughter of Larsac's wife - directed by Jakob and Luise Fleck
  • 1925: A waltz by Strauss - Director: Max Neufeld
  • 1926: The young man from the clothing department - Director: Richard Löwenbein
  • 1926: Carmen - Director: Jacques Feyder
  • 1926/27: Liebelei - directed by Jakob and Luise Fleck
  • 1927: The family without morals - Director: Max Neufeld
  • 1927: I dreamed of love in May - Director: Franz Seitz
  • 1927: The Prince's Child / The Prince of the Black Mountains - Director: Jakob and Luise Fleck
  • 1927: Marriage scandal in the Fromont junior house. and Risler sen. - Director: Anders Wilhelm Sandberg
  • 1927: Sealed Lips - Director: Gustaf Molander
  • 1927/28: Freiwild / The Sorrowful Path of Anna Riedel - Director: Holger-Madsen
  • 1927/28: Dr. Monnier and the Women - Director: Gustaf Molander
  • 1928: Today Mariett is dancing - Director: Friedrich Zelnik
  • 1928: Mädchenschicksale - Director: Richard Löwenbein
  • 1928: Die kleine Sklavin - directed by Jakob and Luise Fleck
  • 1928: Mary Lou - Director: Friedrich Zelnik
  • 1928: slide . Struggles of fate of a sixteen year old - Director: Richard Eichberg
  • 1928/29: Big City Butterfly - Director: Richard Eichberg
  • 1929: The Red Circle - Director: Friedrich Zelnik
  • 1929: The Game for Men - Director: Robert Land
  • 1929: Black Forest Girl - Director: Victor Janson
  • 1930: Der Walzerkönig - Director: Manfred Noa (in AT: Heaven is full of violins)
  • 1930/31: By a nose's length - Director: Johannes Guter
  • 1931: Being a student when the violets are in bloom - Director: Heinz Paul
  • 1932: Die vom 17er Haus - Director: Artur Berger

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personal data
SURNAME Lerch, Fred Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lerch, Alois (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German film actor
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Ernsdorf , Lower Austria
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1985
Place of death Munich