Josef Egger (actor)
Josef Egger , actually Joseph Egger (born February 22, 1889 in Donawitz , † August 29, 1966 in Gablitz ), was an Austrian actor .
Life
Josef Egger became secretary in 1907 and office manager in 1908 at the Stadttheater Leoben , where he also took on minor roles. He decided to become an actor and then played in Linz, among other places. In 1915 he got an engagement at the Raimundtheater in Vienna.
Egger took on mostly comic roles in operettas in the twenties and appeared on various stages in Vienna as well as at the Raimund Theater. In the early 1930s he appeared at the Deutsches Theater in Munich. At this time he received the first film offers.
Often he only played small supporting roles at the side of Hans Moser , like a bailiff in Schrammeln , a clerk in love is duty-free , a postman in The Herr Kanzleirat . Characters with a Czech accent were his specialty. In the few leading roles, for example as Windischgruber in Der Hofrat Geiger or as the frog in Géza from Bolváry's Die Fledermaus , he was able to show that he had a lot of character originality, but in Hans Moser's era there was only room for an original owl. At the end of his career, Josef Egger played a gravedigger in the first spaghetti western For a Fistful of Dollars from 1964 and a quirky old man in the sequel For a Few Dollars More from the following year.
His grave is in the Gablitz cemetery .
Joseph Egger had three sons. One died young, the second became a well-known classical pianist ( he played live on the radio broadcast for the signing of the State Treaty in 1955 ), who later emigrated to Brazil, the youngest, Josef Egger, b. 1925, first followed in his father's footsteps, but after a brief engagement at the Stadttheater in Baden near Vienna decided to pursue a career as a representative of well-known companies such as Suchard and Westinghouse. He supports cultural projects in Spain, Austria and Switzerland.
Filmography
- 1935: In the white Rößl
- 1936: The Lonjumeau postillon
- 1936: girls' boarding school
- 1940: The Last Judgment
- 1941: Love is duty-free
- 1943: travel acquaintance
- 1943: The holiday child
- 1944: Music in Salzburg
- 1944: The golden shackle
- 1944: Schrammeln
- 1946: The bat
- 1947: Hofrat Geiger
- 1948: The makeover / After rain follows sun
- 1948: Mr. Chancellery
- 1950: Greetings and kisses from the Wachau
- 1950: wedding night in paradise
- 1950: On the alpine pasture, there's no sin
- 1950: Child of the Danube
- 1950: The Seelenbräu
- 1951: A woman's heart
- 1951: Vienna faded away
- 1951: The five-minute father / landlady of the red ox
- 1951: Spring on the ice
- 1951: wedding in the hay
- 1951: Valentine's Fall
- 1951: Dance into happiness
- 1951: Eva inherits paradise
- 1951: There is a Hofbräuhaus in Munich
- 1952: Maria Wörth's landlady
- 1952: The Obersteiger
- 1953: starfish
- 1953: One night in Venice
- 1953: The singing hotel
- 1953: Weather lights on the Dachstein
- 1954: Columbus discovers Krähwinkel
- 1954: Consul Strotthoff
- 1954: Tokay Pearl
- 1954: People in love
- 1955: two hearts and a throne
- 1955: The landlady on the Lahn
- 1955: Rushing melodies
- 1956: The old forester's house
- 1956: Sissi - The young empress
- 1956: where the lark sings
- 1956: The fisherwoman from Lake Constance
- 1956: The stolen pants
- 1956: The legacy of the Pruggerhof
- 1956: Asparagus lifeguard
- 1956: love, summer and music
- 1957: Almenrausch and Edelweiss
- 1957: the best day of my life
- 1957: Seven times a week
- 1957: high up on the mountain
- 1957: Father makes a career
- 1957: Homesickness ... where the flowers bloom
- 1957: White elder
- 1958: Christine
- 1958: Woe if you let go
- 1958: The Radetzky March sounds high
- 1959: Mikosch in the secret service
- 1960: Not sooo, gentlemen!
- 1960: Tall fir trees
- 1961: ... and you, my darling, stay here
- 1961: In the black Rößl
- 1962: Dance with me in the morning
- 1963: The merry vagabonds
- 1963: Red lips should be kissed (the whole world is sky blue)
- 1963: The model boy
- 1964: Greetings from Tyrol
- 1964: For a handful of dollars (Per un pugno di dollari)
- 1964: The Arkansas prospectors
- 1965: A vacation bed with 100 hp
- 1965: The Black Eagles of Santa Fe
- 1965: For a few dollars more (Per qualche dollaro in più)
Web links
- Josef Egger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Egger, Josef |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Egger, Joseph (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1889 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Donawitz , Duchy of Styria, Austria-Hungary |
DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1966 |
Place of death | Gablitz , Lower Austria, Austria |