Date of birth: 1885-09-09
Place of birth: Hürth, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Paul Henkels, Пауль Хенкельс


1944-01-28
Writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told hi

1957-04-24
Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel.

1932-11-03

1931-06-05

1957-08-20

1932-03-28
A nobleman gradually falls in love with a woman he was forced by relatives to marry, against his wil

1955-08-11
Granny Jantzen lives with her three granddaughters Dick, Dalli and Angela on the small pony farm Imm

1932-09-06
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down

1929-04-26

1936-09-04
Absurd mistakes arise when the passengers of a burnt down sanitarium are quartered at a hotel. -Humb

1931-12-24
In this German comedy, an enterprising American uncle comes from Chicago goes to the tiny town of Gr

1957-09-03
The pony hotel has just been opened, but so far no guests have arrived. Dick gets Ralf to design a b
1972-06-03

1929-10-16
Martin Hollmann, a young gardener meets his significantly older wife's daughter from her first marri

1934-09-06
Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression

1959-08-14

1932-01-04
The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing

1930-06-12
An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels

1942-03-02
King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Au
1933-08-25
A Japanese doctor, on a secret mission to Paris for his country, becomes romantically involved with
1929-05-22
In the year 1914: The assistants of cobbler Lehmann compete for the affections of his daughter Fried

1942-04-03
Young Count Georg Wolkersheim is sent to the Congress of Vienna to represent the interests of his co

1933-04-21
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes t

1933-08-03
First adaptation of Hans Fallada's novel of the same name.

1958-01-03

1943-04-02

1943-07-30

1930-05-22
Drama based on a play by Friedrich Wolf. Hete is pregnant, hoping to have a family with her fiancé P

1956-11-30

1955-11-25
Therese Hübner, owner of the “Linde”, is desperately trying to protect her long-established business

1930-08-15
In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accu

1936-01-16
Rich American Dina Morris and her New York friends sail through the Indian Ocean on a yacht. When th

1944-05-24
Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won

1937-08-09
Mabel is a successful pilot who hates sensational media, but falls in love with Jack, a womanizer jo

1930-12-15
The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in lo

1956-08-02

1952-05-14
A masked hero scales the walls of buildings and relieves burglars of the money or valuables they've

1953-12-22
An American heiress in Europe falls in love with a German prince, but he is required to marry someon

1952-11-10

1939-04-04
Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner

1958-07-22
After having lost her mother Magdalena was brought up on strict boarding school disciplines. When re

1956-12-28

1940-11-13
The young Schiller, whose heart and soul are writing and poetry, is forced into the military academy

1937-04-11

1943-10-04
A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.

1952-02-29
Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to re

1957-12-27
Hugo Bunzel, a caring father and town councillor in the tranquil town of Lieberich, is a self-confes

1932-07-21
A shifty lawyer is threatened with death within two days by a criminal who supposedly died in Austra

1959-01-08

1956-09-11
The Immenhof has been closed by officials, awaiting auction. In the meantime, Angela has died, so Jo

1938-02-11

1956-05-03
Agathe Zausel doesn't have it easy. Not only could her doll factory be running better, but her sons-

1938-11-29
English Lord Arthur Cavershoot is a passionate Napoleon scholar who badly neglects his wife Josephin

1930-10-20
Adaptation of a popular comedy: When the country uncle he has been bilking comes to town to visit, a

1952-08-09

1951-02-16

1933-09-21
A psychological study of three girls who enter a boys' school to prepare for their final examination

1942-06-17
Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild.

1948-03-09
A decent small-town citizen named Fridolin Biedermann travels to Berlin and wants to finally experie

1944-05-03
A musical film based on biographical facts about Clara Wieck's love for composer Robert Schumann (18

1939-01-31
Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith

1961-08-09

1947-12-17
While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific

1944-05-09
Around 1850, a young violin virtuoso steals a Stradivarius from the museum of a southern German roya
1955-03-01
Four respectable men in Daxburg once footed child support for the same mysterious dancer. Twenty yea
1935-09-05
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this i
1935-01-11
Seven men in peaceful Switzerland swear lifelong friendship while the rest of the world is at strife

1930-02-21
Prevented from wedding a postman's daughter (her father prefers she marry a farmer) a Tyrol schoolte

1931-03-12
A dedicated editor, who is engaged to the daughter of a wealthy senator thrills her father with a le
1933-05-03

1934-12-07
1934-10-04

1935-09-19
Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections

1955-09-28

1931-09-29
This is the German version of Gloria with Gustav Fröhlich & Brigitte Helm in the leads. A French

1931-12-18
1931-12-21
The sensitive, music-loving son of a German general reluctantly attends a military academy and after
1934-03-30

1934-01-10
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service
1935-12-21

1943-03-03

1930-08-28

1941-08-22
The two stars of an upcoming operetta performance quarrel constantly. but they also fall in love wit

1936-02-28
After her Prime Minister Lord Melbourne arranges a marriage for her with the German Prince Albert, t

1936-12-22
A dancing girl succeeds in getting Napoleon, in 1808, to pardon her lover, a German artist who has d

1938-08-23
1941-07-22
Berlin's theatre crowd is excited about the new operetta "Frau Luna". But for the head of the city's

1954-10-13

1956-06-18

1935-11-21
Fritz Schmitz advertises the sea journeys of Mr. Hein Kluge using this melody. Fritz is Mr. Winkler

1942-04-02
The marriage of the celebrated operetta diva Vilma and the chamber singer Peter has come to an end.

1928-10-11
The fate of a French aristocrat is revealed in this historical costume drama, who, in 1792, finds he
1934-07-27
A Japanese doctor, on a secret mission to Paris for his country, becomes romantically involved with

1955-10-27
A Nordic fishermen's village surrounded by the raging sea. This is were fisherman Haldor (Wilhelm Bo

1940-02-28

1945-01-30
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreat
1932-12-13
Just for fun and to prove to the daughter of the castle lord how courageous they are, three young me
1934-11-01
1935-03-08
1939-12-22

1942-01-23
A German soldier on leave in Berlin goes looking for his pen pal who he has never met called Gisela.

1956-08-02

1941-03-21
1942-01-08

1953-01-09

1930-11-10
Bill's girlfriend Lore is an art student in Berlin. Since her professor doesn't think much of painti

1949-05-03

1952-10-01

1934-10-02
Warsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When
1957-05-16
1933-12-20

1936-04-02

1935-01-02
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became kn

1949-04-15
During the Biedermeier era, a young singer searches for her missing father. Remake of "Das Hofkonzer

1948-01-23
Boys are usually busy playing "Indians", but when their uncle decides to rent part of their home to

1945-03-01
During his trip to the city, a naïve man from the countryside falls victim to a thief who steals his

1934-09-29
1930-02-21
The young, forward-thinking doctor Dr. Maerker arrives in a small factory town and is appalled by th

1930-08-24
This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a stor
1954-08-09
1931-01-05
Wibbel the Tailor is a 1931 German comedy film directed by Paul Henckels and starring Henckels, Thea
1934-01-30

1950-07-20
A gang of thieves plan a hit on a warehouse filled with precious stuff.

1954-08-09
Two GIs haven fallen in love with "Fräuleins", decide to stay in Germany and open a typically Americ
1938-08-04

1942-06-26

1940-02-22
1935-10-17
The film depicts the composer Franz Liszt and takes its name from his 1850 piano work of the same ti

1930-08-27

1936-10-26
Sylvia, the daughter of the pastor Kelvil, is lectrice to Lady Patricia and gets to know the young L

1933-09-21

1936-12-21

1953-03-04

1939-09-26

1949-09-02

1952-05-08

1954-12-25

1936-03-20
The taxi driver Fritz gets to know the millionaire-heiress Iris and marries her against the wishes o

1952-11-25

1940-10-29

1957-10-03

1961-02-15
It was not until twelve years after the end of World War II that Irene Besser's husband, Martin Bess
1950-10-23
1958-08-27

1928-11-04
Thérèse Raquin, an unhappily married woman, aided by her lover Laurent, drowns her husband Michaud,

1929-11-25
The engineer Karl Hartmann invents a new, gigantic brown coal excavator. He discovers that there are

1961-11-11
1929-11-07
Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film

1932-02-19
The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical

1955-06-29

1934-10-18
1948-11-26

1930-03-14
Following the Battle of Jena in 1806 as the French armies commanded by Napoleon overrun Prussia, a s
1933-09-07

1953-07-29

1933-02-06
Fred von Wellingen is a wealthy industrialist, part of a large family-owned corporation. Fred has fa

1931-03-16

1942-12-08
1942-06-11
1953-08-11
1945-01-01

1928-10-24
A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close r
1936-03-13
a movie by Heinz Paul
1936-06-05
a movie by Heinz Paul
1950-12-22
1944-12-20
1954-08-11
Sonja, a little ballerina at the Grand Theater, is secretly in love with the handsome tenor Luis Mar

1937-12-02
1933-12-05
1935-01-15
1933-11-30

1932-09-25
Eve's emotions are torn between two European princes, lifelong rivals who happen to be brothers. Eve

1940-07-19

1937-09-29

1934-09-03

1933-01-21

1930-09-29
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfrie

1931-09-24

1936-11-06
The maid of a paintbrush manufacturer gives birth to twins. The father is first suspected to be the

1929-08-19

1926-12-02
1945-03-01

1934-03-30

1929-12-15
A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long
1934-02-02
Film by Jacoby.

1933-11-27
Film by Abel.
1945-01-01

1936-01-04
Ave Maria was the second film-starring vehicle for legendary operatic tenor Beniamino Gigli. Mournin

1937-08-02
A comedy directed by Alwin Elling.

1944-05-12
1927-08-22
"Assassination" - A far-right political organization called "Fellowship Loyalty" seeks contact with
1933-11-03

1953-10-22

1942-07-10
A player on a soccer team, where everyone matches together just perfectly, has fallen out of a champ

1928-08-27

1928-02-01
Christel, the beautiful, blonde daughter of the old master blacksmith Wangen, and the young, handsom

1936-09-03
A cheerful film about the Cologne carnival.
1938-10-01
1938 German film.

1927-06-15
1934-05-10
Film by Fred Sauer.

1936-02-06
Film by Sauer.
1928-08-20
1928-10-15

1926-10-17

1928-03-09

1927-09-04
The clerk of Nuremberg wants to use his position to marry the young Evchen, but she does not love hi
1929-04-18
1928-02-14

1929-01-01
Moritz Stiefel faces expulsion due to poor marks. When he is caught with an essay titled “Shame and

1929-02-05
Fragment of "Our Lady's Milk" (Liebfraumilch German wine)
1923-12-25
After the family estate is destroyed by fire, Maria rebuilds the farm and leads it to renewed econom
1932-01-24
1934-03-30
Film by Carl Heinz Wolff.

1930-11-07
Flachsmann, a backward-looking school director and Jan Flemming, a teacher of the modern sort, are o
1930-01-17

1929-08-19
A young student, Stephan, inherits shares in a coal mine from his father. The mine is no longer prof

1926-01-22
Adaptation of Ibsen's play Vildanden.
1927-09-29
1959-04-19
1958-06-08
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this i

1932-10-11
Several inhabitants of a big apartment building get involved in a series of lawsuits.

1924-01-22
A wealthy man, a circus clown by profession, tells another man, during a car ride, some excerpts fro