Leo Lasko

Leo Lasko , actually Leo Schlamme (born June 25, 1885 in Hamburg , † beginning of 1949 in London , United Kingdom ) was a German film director , theater actor and screenwriter .

Life

He grew up in Munich , where he studied engineering for three semesters. Then he became an actor at a traveling theater and last appeared in Leisnig . In October 1906 he received a firm commitment to the municipal stages of Eckernförde . From 1907 he played in Erfurt , Amsterdam and Leipzig .

From 1912 he lived in Berlin , where he initially worked as a singer at the Studienhaus in Charlottenburg . From 1913 he worked as a small actor in films and was able to realize his first film production in 1914 with The Kakadu in love . From 1917 to 1918 he participated in the war.

After the end of the war he took up his directorial work again. Lasko created films of all kinds, the sensational performances with the American Eddie Polo as the leading actor were particularly successful. He spent a year and a half working on the two-part documentary The World War , which he followed in 1929 with the feature film Scapa Flow .

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Lasko, classified as “non-Aryan”, went to Paris for a short time , but then returned to Germany. In 1936 he finally emigrated to England, where his family followed him a year later. In July 1938 he was expelled from the Reichsfilmkammer . Immediately beforehand, he had founded a company in London that specialized in the manufacture of hair dyes. On May 3, 1948 Leo Lasko finally became a British citizen.

Leo Lasko was the father of the art historian Peter Lasko, who died in 2003 .

Filmography

• 1914: To the amorous cockatoo
• 1917: Jan Vermeulen, the miller from Flanders (only as an actor)
• 1918: Towards the Light (script only)
• 1919: The sinner
• 1919: The panther bride
• 1919: The merry husband
• 1919: Vendetta (script only)
• 1919: The Malay's dagger
• 1920: tambourine and castanets
• 1920: the pink jersey
• 1920: Indian revenge
• 1920: The woman without a soul
• 1920: Va banque
• 1920: hunger for life
• 1920: Schneider Wibbel (only screenplay)
• 1920: Auri Sacra Fames, Part 1 - An der Liebe Fool's Rope
• 1920: Auri Sacra Fames, Part 2 - The Testament of an Eccentric
• 1921: The Convict of Cayenne (also screenplay)
• 1921: Satan's chains
• 1921: Der Totenklaus (only screenplay)
• 1921: The buried me
• 1921: Parisians (also screenplay)
• 1925: People by the sea
• 1927: The World War, Part 1 - The People's Heldengang
• 1928: Hands up, this is Eddy Polo
• 1928: Eddy Polo in the wasp's nest
• 1928: The World War, Part 2 - The People's Not
• 1930: Scapa Flow (also screenplay)
• 1931: The Woman - The Nightingale
• 1931: Schubert's Spring Dream (script only)
• 1932: Night of Temptation (also screenplay)
• 1933: Once upon a time there was a musician (script only)

Web links

• Leo Lasko in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Leo Lasko at filmportal.de

literature

• Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 301.