Paul Wegener
Paul Wegener was a German actor known for his pioneering roles in Expressionist films. He can also be considered a father of horror for his breakout role in The Student of Prague (1913). Wegener maintained a career throughout and after the Nazi era, starring in his last film in 1948.
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 10.438 |
Birthday | 1874-12-11 |
Place of Birth | Arnoldsdorf, West Prussia, Germany [now Jarantowice, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland] |
Also Known As |
1928
A Daughter Of Destiny
6.5/18
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad do...
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A Daughter Of Destiny
1920
The Golem: How He Came into the World
6.955/199
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect t...
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The Golem: How He Came into the World
1915
The Golem
6.6/40
This mostly lost film is often confused with director Paul Wegener third and readily available interpretation of the legend; Der Golem, wie er in die...
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The Golem
1945
Kolberg
6.5/10
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg ref...
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Kolberg
1913
The Student of Prague
5.971/68
Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning.
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The Student of Prague
1932
The Living Dead
5.75/4
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. Remake of Unheimliche Geschichten (Richard Oswal...
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The Living Dead
1926
The Magician
6.327/26
A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a h...
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The Magician
1935
Only a Comedian
6.5/3
A moving actor at the rococo era shows the power-hungry-crude minister of a small state prince in the barriers, while he makes use of his resemblance...
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Only a Comedian
1920
Sumurun
6/27
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a travelin...
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Sumurun
1922
The Loves of Pharaoh
6.6/13
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
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The Loves of Pharaoh
1922
Vanina
5.2/6
Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison....
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Vanina
1927
The Weavers
8/1
Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
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The Weavers
1942
The Great King
6.9/7
King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren't going...
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The Great King
1949
Der große Mandarin
6/1
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Der große Mandarin
1942
Hochzeit auf Bärenhof
7/3
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Hochzeit auf Bärenhof
1922
Lucrezia Borgia
4.4/7
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is...
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Lucrezia Borgia
1943
Diesel
6.1/4
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Diesel
1917
The Golem and the Dancing Girl
5.5/2
As a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous.
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The Golem and the Dancing Girl
1918
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
6/1
A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse...
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1933
Inge and the Millions
0/0
A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezing money out of honest business firms, causing the...
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Inge and the Millions
1943
Wenn die Sonne wieder scheint
7.5/2
The Termoehlens belong to the old farming class in Flanders. Their estate does well and their flax is the best far and wide. And as is the custom, o...
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Wenn die Sonne wieder scheint
1940
Zwielicht
6/1
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Zwielicht
1944
Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen
0/0
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Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen
1935
Der Mann mit der Pranke
5/1
"The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in love with Lena Kroning, the wife of the lawyer Hu...
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Der Mann mit der Pranke
1941
My Life for Ireland
6.2/5
A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupatio...
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My Life for Ireland
1945
The Molander Case
0/0
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The Molander Case
1939
Das Recht auf Liebe
0/0
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Das Recht auf Liebe
1932
The Mystery of Johann Orth
0/0
A Hapsburg archduke in the 1880s gives up his title, changes his name, marries a Viennese actress, and then disappears with her on a South American oc...
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The Mystery of Johann Orth
1928
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
4/2
Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who makes a pioneering flight across the Arctic accomp...
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The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
1932
Marshal Forward
0/0
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Marshal Forward
1933
Hans Westmar
5.143/7
Nazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--who took part in street brawls and assassinations in...
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Hans Westmar
1939
The Immortal Heart
6.5/4
Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith Peter Henlein is looking for a way to make bullet...
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The Immortal Heart
1919
Madame DuBarry
6.4/25
The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
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Madame DuBarry
1938
In geheimer Mission
0/0
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In geheimer Mission
1951
Eyes of Love
6/2
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Eyes of Love
1916
Rübezahl's Wedding
5/3
In this film, the people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a place where they can hold a picnic and a spring festiv...
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Rübezahl's Wedding
1920
Figures of the Night
0/0
"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwel...
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Figures of the Night
1927
Die Welt ohne Waffen
0/0
An engineer develops a device that will disarm any electrically power device, in an attempt to prevent armed conflicts.
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Die Welt ohne Waffen
1927
Arme kleine Sif
0/0
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Arme kleine Sif
1922
Monna Vanna
0/0
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Monna Vanna
1927
Svengali
0/0
The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
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Svengali
1923
Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen
0/0
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Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen
1922
Das Liebesnest
0/0
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Das Liebesnest
1925
Living Buddhas
0/0
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Living Buddhas
1941
Das Mädchen von Fanö
0/0
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Das Mädchen von Fanö
1938
Stärker als die Liebe
0/0
1938 German film.
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Stärker als die Liebe
1926
Der Mann aus dem Jenseits
0/0
Film by Manfred Noa.
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Der Mann aus dem Jenseits
1934
A Man Wants to Get to Germany
4.8/4
On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get...
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A Man Wants to Get to Germany
1924
The Film in the Film
7.5/1
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of...
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The Film in the Film
1922
Herzog Ferrantes Ende
0/0
In medieval Italy, a group of men plot to kill a cruel and despotic duke.
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Herzog Ferrantes Ende
1926
Dagfin
0/0
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Dagfin
1920
Der Galeerensträfling
0/0
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Der Galeerensträfling
1917
Sleeping Beauty
5/1
An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
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Sleeping Beauty
1920
Steuermann Holk
0/0
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Steuermann Holk
1921
Roswolsky's Mistress
0/0
Trying to kill herself, Mary is saved by rich Roswolsky.
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Roswolsky's Mistress
1921
Der verlorene Schatten
0/0
A man sells his shadow to gain success and fame but soon suffers the terrible consequences of that deal.
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Der verlorene Schatten
1923
S.O.S. Die Insel der Tränen
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S.O.S. Die Insel der Tränen
1927
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
0/0
Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by on...
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Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
1914
Evinrude
0/0
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Evinrude
1917
Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
0/0
A stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity.
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Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
1916
The Yoghi
0/0
An Indian mystic uses his power of invisibility to scare a young inventor.
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The Yoghi
1930
Fundvogel
0/0
Young Jan Bergwall visits his grandmother, the so-called centenary, at Woyland Castle. There he meets his cousin Andrea, who everyone calls "Fundvogel...
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Fundvogel
1943
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
8/2
A man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of personal encounters with evil and the supernatural.
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