Karl Martell (actor)
Karl Hermann Martell (born November 17, 1896 in Tilsit , † December 28, 1966 in Hamburg ) was a German actor and director of documentaries.
Life
Martell had in Königsberg / Pr. worked in a tobacco shop, then trained in drama and music, and served as an officer during the First World War. After the end of the war, he decided to become an actor in the early 1920s and came through theater stations in Königsberg, Frankfurt / O. and Leipzig to Berlin. With his tsar in the Lortzing opera Zar und Zimmermann , Karl Martell achieved one of his first great successes. At the age of 24, Karl Martell made his film debut in The Great Secret in 1920 , followed by the films The Golden Plague and The Golden Hair . He appeared regularly in front of the camera in the 1930s and became a well-known actor, mostly as a supporting actor. He played four times with Zarah Leander and was for a time her ideal acting partner.
His best-known films of the 1930s include La Habanera , The Gambler and Women for Golden Hill . The films Alarm , Ohm Krüger , Damals and Das alten Lied were made during the Second World War . After the end of the war, Martell only worked in the films Hearts in the Storm , Stars over Colombo , The Prisoner of the Maharajah and The Blue Moth before he retired from the film business.
From the beginning of the 1950s Martell worked as a documentary film producer with his own company in Hamburg.
Filmography
- 1920: the big secret
- 1921: The golden plague
- 1922: the golden hair
- 1936: Dangerous game
- 1936: The end justifies the means
- 1937: premiere
- 1937: crook in tails
- 1937: La Habanera
- 1938: The player
- 1938: Women for Golden Hill
- 1939: D III 88
- 1939: Your life is mine
- 1939: New Year's Eve at Alexanderplatz
- 1939: The Beloved
- 1941: alarm
- 1941: Ohm Krüger
- 1942: Through the eyes of a woman
- 1943: I Pagliacci
- 1943: La Bajazzo
- 1943: then
- 1945: The old song
- 1945: Between heart and conscience / The strange life
- 1951: hearts in a storm
- 1953: Stars over Colombo
- 1954: The Maharaja's Prisoner
- 1959: The blue moth
Directing (documentaries)
- 1951: Mathematics of Beauty
- 1953: Distress at sea ... --- ... SOS
- 1954: Building no. 885
- 1954: Launched
literature
- Kay Less : The large personal dictionary of films , Volume 5, p. 297, Berlin 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Martell Reichsfilmkammer file
- ^ The large personal dictionary of films, Volume 5, p. 297
Web links
- Charles Martel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures by Karl Martell In: Virtual History
- Karl Martell on zarah-leander.de
- Detailed biography on cineartistes.com (French)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Martell, Karl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martell, Karl Hermann (full name); Martell, Carlo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tilsit |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 1966 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |