Max Laurence

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Friedrich Rudolf Max Laurence , also Max Lawrence (born August 7, 1852 in Berlin ; † May 26, 1926 there ) was a German actor .

Life

He attended the art academies in Berlin and Düsseldorf, where he trained as a painter. Laurence then became an actor in 1871 and got his first engagement in Magdeburg . He then played in Danzig , Nuremberg , Amsterdam and Breslau .

In 1882 he took part in an American tour and then stayed in the USA until 1892. There he played for Friedrich Haase and Friedrich Mitterwurzer, among others . He spent five years as an actor and director at the Lyceum Theater in New York , most recently in San Francisco .

Back in Germany, he went to the New Theater in Berlin and played at the Schillertheater from 1895 to 1899 , as well as at the Centraltheater and the Trianontheater. Since the beginning of the First World War he was also active as a cabaret artist .

At the age of nearly 60, Laurence was still a busy film actor. He preferred to mimick aristocrats and other notables, such as Prince Hohenfels in the adventure film The Eyes of Mummy Ma . After a stroke with left-sided paralysis as a result, Laurence had to quit his acting activity.

Filmography

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the 19th century . List, Leipzig 1903, p. 579

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personal data
SURNAME Laurence, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laurence, Friedrich Rudolf Max (full name); Lawrence, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1926
Place of death Berlin