Harry Frank

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Harry Frank , born in Ludwig Theodor Hellmuth Franck (born October 15, 1896 in Berlin ; † December 12, 1947 there ) was a German actor .

Life

Growing up in Lübeck , he first worked as a servant, salesman, magician, cabin boy and ship cook. He took part in the First World War as an officer for the most part in Turkey. He then became the editor of a provincial newspaper and tried his hand at advertising advertising, real estate agent and correspondent for English and French in Berlin.

After all, he stood in front of film cameras as an actor, initially as a supporting actor, later also in leading roles. His profession was mainly crime novels and comedies, where he embodied smart, agile characters. Until 1936 he was seen in several films every year.

After that, his popularity waned significantly and Frank now concentrated on his work on the Berlin stages, especially on the Small Theater in the Renaissance Theater . His last film assignment was in 1946 at DEFA in the crime film Razzia , where he played the bar owner Goll, a criminal in post-war Berlin.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1930: The Rhineland girl
  • 1930: On the edge of the Sahara
  • 1931: perpetrators wanted
  • 1931: Dancers wanted for South America
  • 1932: woe if he let go
  • 1932: Cavaliers from Kurfürstendamm
  • 1933: Battle for Blond
  • 1933: The Leuthen Choral
  • 1933: Life begins tomorrow
  • 1933: K 1 intervenes
  • 1934: The girlfriend of a great man
  • 1934: What am I without you
  • 1934: Just don't get soft, Susanne!
  • 1935: The courageous seafarer
  • 1935: Traumulus
  • 1936: The Jungle Princess (The Jungle Princess) (. Only dt processing)
  • 1937: The tiger of Esnapur
  • 1943: A waltz with you
  • 1947: raid

Remarks

  1. ↑ According to Kay Less : The film's great lexicon of people is another Harry Frank who appeared in various films from 1919 to 1922, including Fritz Lang . IMDb, Filmportal.de and others, on the other hand, only know one actor by this name. Harry Frank contributed a résumé to the "Filmwoche" article in which he himself mentions his early beginnings in film.
  2. ↑ The film was made in 1930, see shooting report in Mein Film, No. 250, p. 9, and should also be released in cinemas that year. The film program Illustrierter Film-Kurier No. 1503 was already printed when lengthy legal disputes arose (for details see Liddy Hegewald ). There is a censorship clearance from 1932 (B.30842, January 14, 1932, youth ban. Source: filmportal.de), but so far there is no evidence that the film was actually shown in Germany.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Source: Birth certificate No. 1156 of October 17, 1896, Landesarchiv Berlin.
  2. ↑ Harry Frank's life journey in the sound film, in: Die Filmwoche, No. 31, year 1930, pp. 972f.

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personal data
SURNAME Frank, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franck, Ludwig Theodor Hellmuth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1947
Place of death Berlin