Louis Adlon (actor)
Louis Adlon (born October 7, 1907 in Berlin , † March 31, 1947 in Los Angeles , United States ) was a German-American actor .
Live and act
The son of the hotelier of the same name, Louis Adlon , was born just a few days before the grand opening of the legendary Hotel Adlon . Since his father's second wife, Hedda, did not want the children of Louis junior's mother Tilly around, little Louis and his four siblings were sent to boarding school. After graduating from school, Louis Adlon junior decided to emigrate to the United States in August 1924, where he found a livelihood as a secretary to the silent film diva Pola Negri , who once achieved fame in Berlin and for whom he is said to have also served as a lover. During a joint visit to Berlin, the unequal couple resided in the Hotel Adlon and caused a tangible scandal.
In 1932 the young Hungarian director Andrew Marton brought Adlon in for a small role in the adventure film comedy North Pole - Ahoi! in front of the camera. Back in the USA, Adlon was given small rolls, especially since the late 1930s. He often played Teutonic foreigners, and after the outbreak of World War II , Adlon was regularly employed as a Nazi. At the end of the war in 1945, Louis Adlon jr. his unimpressive film career. Instead, he went to war-torn Berlin as a press officer on behalf of the newspaper tsar William Randolph Hearst , where Adlon also worked for the US State Department . Not yet 40 years old, Louis Adlon died in the spring of 1947 in his adopted Californian home.
Filmography
- 1933: North Pole - Ahoy!
- 1935: The Girl Friend
- 1939: I Was a Nazi Spy (Confessions of a Nazi Spy)
- 1939: Dance on the Ice (The Ice Follies of 1939)
- 1939: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- 1939: Espionage Agent
- 1940: Paul Ehrlich - A Life for Research (Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet)
- 1940: Mystery Sea Raider
- 1940: A Man with Imagination (A Dispatch from Reuters)
- 1941: Underground
- 1941: A Chocolate Soldier
- 1941: Syncopation
- 1941: I Was a Criminal
- 1942: My Favorite Spy
- 1942: Eagle Squadron
- 1942: Iceland
- 1942: Tarzan and the Nazis (Tarzan Triumphs)
- 1942: Hangmen Also Die (Hangmen Also Die)
- 1943: Action in the North Atlantic (Action in the North Atlantic)
- 1943: Sahara
- 1943: Hostages
- 1944: Resisting Enemy Interrogation
- 1945: Counter Attack
- 1945: Jungle Queen
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. 563.
Web links
- Louis Adlon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ RP online: The true story of the Adlon
- ↑ Louis Adlon Jr. in Der Spiegel , 15/1997, p. 129
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adlon, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1947 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , United States |