Fritz Richard
Fritz Richard , actually Josef Richard Löwit , (born January 6, 1870 in Chotěboř , † February 9, 1933 in Berlin ) was an Austrian actor .
Life
The trained stenographer took acting lessons in Vienna at the Pauline Loewe Theater School. He started his first engagement in Mülheim in 1886 . He then played on various German and Austrian provincial theaters.
From Metz in 1905 his path took him to Berlin, where he mainly worked at the Deutsches Theater and the Lessing Theater . He was part of Max Reinhardt's ensemble . He was particularly successful in Karl Schönherr's Der Weibsteufel and as Jedermann . From 1913 Richard also took part in numerous silent films.
Richard married his fellow student Friederike Raithel in 1898, who later also became an actress under the name Frida Richard . Fritz Richard, who was Jewish, died shortly after Hitler came to power in Berlin, and after his death rumors arose that the actor was murdered.
Filmography
- 1913: An Outcast, Part 1
- 1913: The veiled image of Groß-Kleindorf
- 1914: Your Highness
- 1914: Cheated out of luck
- 1914: The mysterious villa
- 1914: The armored vault
- 1915: The dead awaken
- 1916: A sheet of paper
- 1916: fog and sun
- 1918: The thorn path
- 1918: The world mirror
- 1918: In the matter of Marc Renard
- 1918: The fairy tale of love is wondrous
- 1918: Jettchen Gebert's story
- 1919: The way of Grete Lessen
- 1919: The girl shepherd
- 1919: love
- 1919: The outlaws
- 1920: the fool
- 1921: I am you
- 1921: The witch
- 1921: Alfred von Ingelheim's life drama
- 1921: The walk through hell
- 1921: The cemetery of the living
- 1921: My husband - the night editor
- 1921: Circus of Life
- 1922: The Count of Charolais
- 1922: Dying Peoples (2 parts)
- 1922: The evil spirit
- 1922: Lola Montez, the king's dancer
- 1922: Duke Ferrante's end
- 1922: Felicitas Grolandin
- 1923: Count Cohn
- 1923: The chain rattles
- 1923: The beautiful girl
- 1923: friend Ripp
- 1923: tragedy of love
- 1923: The old law
- 1925: The Anne-Liese of Dessau
- 1925: Life's dice game
- 1925: Pietro the Corsair
- 1925: The young lady from office
- 1925: The woman with the bad reputation
- 1925: Pietro, the corsair
- 1927: The most beautiful legs in Berlin
- 1927: The false prince
- 1928: The little slave
- 1928: Schinderhannes
- 1929: The Battle of the Tertia
- 1930: Zapfenstreich on the Rhine
Web links
- Fritz Richard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gert Kerschbaumer: Ongoing pursuit . derstandard.at, July 23, 2010
- ↑ Filmportal.de gives as dates of birth November 17, 1869 in Vienna, information 1870 also in the Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 . Volume 9, 1985, p. 119.
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SURNAME | Richard, Fritz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Löwit, Josef Richard (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1869 or January 6, 1870 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna or Chotěboř |
DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1933 |
Place of death | Berlin |