Georg H. Schnell
Georg Heinrich Schnell ; and GH Quick (* 11. April 1878 in Tschifu today Yantai , China ; † 31 March 1951 in West Berlin ) was a German actor .
Life
The son of a supplier to the Chinese army came to Germany as a child. After graduating from school, he worked in colonial service and was a lumberjack in Florida. In 1900 he took part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion . After taking acting lessons, Schnell received his first engagement at the Elbing City Theater in 1903 . Other stations in his theater career included Düsseldorf , Strasbourg and Munich . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. In 1919 he became an actor in Berlin and appeared primarily in modern social plays and operettas . Under Max Reinhardt's direction, he acted in Maugham's Regen (1925) and Tolstoy's The Living Corpse (1928).
Between 1919 and 1951, the year he died, Schnell starred in around 130 films, mainly in small to medium-sized supporting roles. Only rarely did he get the chance to make major film appearances. Still played in many great classics from the 1920s to 1940s . He was seen in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's classic film Nosferatu, a symphony of horror as shipowner Harding. Internationally he starred in Alfred Hitchcock's film debut Maze of Passion . During the sound film era, his roles, for example in Emil and the Detectives (1931) and Titanic (1943), became even smaller. Schnell took on one of his last film appearances alongside Heinz Rühmann in the comedy Die Feuerzangenbowle (1944) as one of the members of the famous bowling round.
Filmography
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Web links
- Georg H. Schnell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Georg H. Schnell at filmportal.de
annotation
- ↑ In Weniger's film lexicon , the location Tschiefu is written.
- ^ Georg Schnell, in the collection of the Düsseldorfer theater list, 1910–1911
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| SURNAME | Schnell, Georg H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schnell, Georg Heinrich (full name); Quick, GH |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tschifu, today Yantai , China |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1951 |
| Place of death | Berlin |