Date of birth: 1867-02-17
Place of birth: Halle an der Saale, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Paul Weigle, Paul Wiegle

German born Paul Weigel was an actor in American movies. He is perhaps best remembered for his performances in For Heaven's Sake (1926), The Invisible Ray (1936), and The Great Dictator (1940).

1940-10-15
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecu

1920-07-12
After returning home from years spent in a convent, Marie Beaulieu, is shocked to discover that her

1920-07-25
While attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets an

1916-05-29
Maud and Cecil have been in love since they were children in the pre-Civil War South, but Howard, Ma

1917-06-14
Bad woman turns good, but as a recent widow finds her past a roadblock in terms of accepting remarri

1918-06-03
Tomboy Nita, a vegetable seller in a small Californian town, believes herself to be the daughter of

1917-07-12
Sato (Sessue Hayakawa) faithfully works for importer James Thornton (James Neill). When the old man

1924-12-21
This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was d

1919-11-19
Country girl Annabel Lee has big dreams of being a famous artist. Her widowed mother encourages her

1922-04-22
In Up and Going, based on Mix's own story, Arctic Trails, the star played a titled, polo playing Nor

1926-04-05
An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown min

1945-07-04
A girl enlists a psychic to get rid of her murderous alternate personality.

1927-01-08
Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.

1942-01-20
An RAF squadron is brought down over occupied France. The flyers get to Paris in spite of the fact t

1925-04-11
The last of the impetuous Varicks, Lady Helen Haden is married to Sir Bruce Haden, a brute who treat

1931-06-01
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Co

1920-07-05
The captain of a sailing ship has an affair with the wife of one of his passengers, and gets mixed u

1932-01-24
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, lik
1929-05-05
"Big Boy" goes on a fun rampage in this Jack White production

1919-08-19
In the Canadian province of Acadia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their weddi

1935-12-30
Homer Crow, fired from his laboratory job at the Dunn-Wright Rubber Company, is sure that his formul

1917-02-12
In the Spanish Mountains, the Black Wolf, a bandit, reigns at the head of his band, known as "The Ch
1917-04-02
Pierre Duval is a night watchman at a museum of art who dotes on his art student son, Jacques. One e
1931-02-17
The ambassador of the Kingdom of Luvaria orders Baron Belmar, his attaché, to win the interest of Mo

1924-04-14
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her reckles

1942-11-23
Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noe

1934-04-20
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. Mo

1935-02-15
Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on th

1936-03-01
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

1943-03-14
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a J

1932-08-04
A woman's love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the "back streets
1928-09-30
A criminal mastermind uses a "death ray" machine to bring down government airplanes. Police dog, Sil

1939-03-08
Bob Hope is being stalked by a predatory widow who is a widow of wealthy husbands many times over. M

1939-11-16
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who repres

1936-05-11
A countess from Transylvania seeks a psychiatrist’s help to cure her vampiric cravings.
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1937-02-26
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours

1920-11-14
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to r

1943-11-10
An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist beli

1940-10-19
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age

1925-09-29
"The plot introduces Omar as a leader of his people but deals rather with the love of his nephew, Be
1916-01-06
Secretly engaged to Bernice, Albert becomes infatuated with the gypsy Mina. The rich and jealous Ren

1927-08-06
Larry 'Hutch' Hutchdale, gentleman thief, is keeping an eye on the newly-arrived Princess Orloff of

1931-07-17
After an unappreciated minister dies, his daughter loses her faith in God, prompting her to open a p
1931-02-05
This is the German-language version of 1930's "The Way of All Men", shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywoo

1936-01-20
Dr. Janos Rukh discovers a certain type of radium that has almost magical healing properties. But th

1941-10-31
A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitre

1928-04-08
Blondy and Swede are gruff best friends who build skyscrapers. Blondy gets sweet on a girl he saves

1923-08-05
John Brandon, an American millionaire, has been married seven times but never found love. Then, when

1943-05-31
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.

1925-01-01
Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day,

1918-07-20
The cabaret act of husband-and-wife dancing team Peggy and Joe Blondin is broken up when Joe becomes

1928-10-02
The Isle of Lost Men is one of those lawless tropical island colonies so beloved of adventure-story

1923-11-01
Country girl Hope Anthony follows Hal Tracy to the city, where she becomes involved in a jewel theft

1931-11-15
A young man, framed and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, is released after serving his s

1945-02-28
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's

1916-10-09
A sci-fi/espionage film in which world powers vie for control of a death ray during World War I as a

1942-12-25
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed

1919-06-15
Easygoing Barbara Townsend is never jealous and allows her husband, Richard (Harrison Ford), to come

1925-01-19
A sailor and his would-be bride search their train for a clergyman to marry them.

1929-02-24
A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win

1937-04-10
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gan
1920-06-01
Yale graduate, Yale Durant, facing financial ruin and contemplating suicide, discovers his fiancée's

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1924-09-08
Prince Kaloney, while attempting to incite the people of Messina to reinstate their deposed king, is

1931-02-02
Alternate language version of "The Trial of Mary Dugan" (1929). Has Mary Dugan stabbed her rich suga

1927-10-29
To protect her brother, a nightclub entertainer Queenie Morgan marries a gangster. She bears a resem

1925-04-16
Carol Kingsley and Jimmy Mason, who are both employed in a fashion emporium run by Pierre Ronsard, f

1920-09-12
An orphan girl named Mary Ann falls for a poverty-stricken composer named John Lonsdale.

Margaret Seldon's father, who has been victimized by three business associates and sent to prison, c

1924-09-01
After being fired from his job on the Evening Star newspaper, cub reporter Jack Darwin (William Fair

1919-03-31
The invalid Count de Suchet, nearing death, tells his friend, artist Henri Dutray, about the tragic

1933-09-20
A young woman tries to break up a budding romance between her sweet but naive young sister-in-law an

1927-04-04
Sinews of Steel is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Frank O'Connor.