Peter Voss (actor)
Peter Voss (born June 29, 1891 in Fiefhusen ; † January 9, 1979 in Nortorf near Kiel ) was a German actor .
Life
Voss initially worked in a commercial company and then participated in the First World War. In 1919 he took acting lessons and made his debut at the Kiel Theater in the 1919/1920 season . His career took him to the United Theaters of Bochum and Duisburg, to the Stadttheater Basel and in 1927 to the Saltenburg Theaters in Berlin.
He now lived in Berlin, where he played on various stages. Since 1925 he has mostly appeared in feature films as a lover and bon vivant . In the Luis Trenker film The Battle for the Matterhorn , he played Edward Whymper , in green is the heather he was the main actor as a young forester and partner of Camilla Spira . Despite these and other leading roles, he never achieved the status of a film star like Willy Fritsch, who had a similar disposition . His embodiment of death in the extremely dark legendary film Ferryman Maria by Frank Wysbar, made in 1935, was unusual . After the Second World War, he mainly played theater and also took on some film roles. Most recently he was seen as Captain Petersen in the war drama Night fell over Gotenhafen .
Filmography
- 1925: love and trumpet blowing
- 1927: The cheerful farmer
- 1928: The battle for the Matterhorn
- 1929: Diane
- 1929: Katharina Knie
- 1929: Storm surge of love
- 1929: Tracks in the snow
- 1930: Rose Monday
- 1930: gimmicks of an empress
- 1930: Two Worlds (Two Worlds)
- 1931: The paw
- 1931: The Stranger
- 1931: The night of the decision
- 1932: The heather is green
- 1932: Sergeant X
- 1932: The four from Bob 13
- 1932: Death over Shanghai
- 1933: Maturing youth
- 1933: Shots at the border
- 1933: The hotel in love
- 1934: mother and child
- 1934: The riders of German East Africa
- 1934: a hundred days
- 1935: Attack on Schweda
- 1935: My life for Maria Isabell
- 1936: Ferryman Maria
- 1936: The adventurer of Paris
- 1937: The Baskerville Dog
- 1937: Alarm in Beijing
- 1937: From midnight
- 1938: Sergeant Berry
- 1939: Water for Canitoga
- 1940: a man on the wrong track
- 1940: Warning! Enemy hears with!
- 1940: Trenck, the Pandur
- 1941: Lützow Combat Squadron
- 1943: La Bajazzo
- 1943: I Pagliacci
- 1943: Titanic
- 1951: When the evening bells ring
- 1955: When the alpine roses bloom
- 1959: Night fell over Gotenhafen
Web links
- Peter Voß in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Peter Voss at cyranos.ch
- Pictures by Peter Voss In: Virtual History
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Voss, Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1891 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Fiefhusen |
DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1979 |
Place of death | Nortorf near Kiel |