Robert Garrison

Robert Garrison (born July 18, 1872 in Strasburg in West Prussia , Province of Prussia , † January 6, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German character actor who worked intensively on silent films.

Life

The brother of the opera singer Max Garrison (1867–1927) had received his training at the stage school from Franz Deutschinger and began his first engagement at the Berlin National Theater. In 1896 Garrison was committed to the Halle City Theater , and in 1897/98 he played on the stage in Bromberg / Westpr. and in 1899/1900 he was active for a season in Pressburg . In 1901 Garrison was finally brought to the operetta theater of the Vienna Orpheum . Other theater stations before his arrival in Berlin included Cologne and Mannheim , where he was able to assert himself as a character star at the “court theater” there. Garrison proved to be a versatile interpreter from his earliest stages on the stage. In the German capital he celebrated one of his most important successes as King Lear at the Deutsches Theater . At that time, his brother Max was the director of the Berlin Belle Alliance Theater (also known as the Lortzing Theater ).

The actor recognized the importance of the new medium of film at an early stage. He made his first appearances (1910 to 1912) in short dramas and melodramas by the film pioneer Oskar Messter , in which Garrison was named as one of the few actors of that time. When the First World War broke out , the artist withdrew from the cinema for almost a decade; after his return to the camera in the early 1920s, he only played batch roles.

In addition, he remained connected to the stage, most recently as a member of the Komische Oper Berlin , where Garrison was able to record a success in the Schwank Hulla di Bulla .

Garrison died of meat poisoning.

Filmography

1911: a brave age 1911: tragedy of a strike 1911: love of artists 1911: a misstep 1911: The dangerous age 1911: addressee died 1911: The miller and his child 1912: The tarantella 1912: European slave life 1912: only one actress 1912: agonizing existence 1914: The darkness and its property 1923: The old law 1923: quarantine 1924: Michael 1924: Debit and credit 1925: The joyless alley 1925: A life artist 1925: The Sunken 1925: The Notorious 1925: luxury female 1925: The swapped bride 1925: Pietro, the corsair 1925: tragedy 1925: The man who sells himself

1925: Countess Mariza 1926: The third squadron 1926: The three mannequins 1926: Countess Plattmamsell 1926: The Watch on the Rhine 1926: The young man from clothing 1927: Climbing maxi 1927: The world without weapons 1927: love dance 1927: The governor's mistress 1927: Your Highness Radishes 1927: morality 1928: Volga-Volga 1928: Knight of the Night 1928: The insurmountable 1928: The photographer of the heart 1928: A woman of stature 1929: The Gypsy Primate 1929: The Baskerville Hound 1929: Perjury 1929: Foolish luck 1929: The Ship of the Lost People 1929: The devil reporter 1929: The woman without nerves 1929: rivals in world record 1930: harried girls

Works

• Moth. Poems. Curt Wigand, Berlin et al. 1908.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 307, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 3: F-H. John Barry Fitzgerald - Ernst Hofbauer. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 194.

Web links

• Robert Garrison in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Robert Garrison at ngiyaw eBooks