Paul Graetz
Date of birth: 1890-07-02
Place of birth: Glogów, Poland
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Paul Graetz was German-born comedian and actor of Jewish ancestry. He was born in Glogau, Schlesia (today Głogów in Poland) in 1890, and was very active on stage and in German cinema from 1911 to 1932. When the Nazis came to power in February 1933, he fled to the United Kingdom, where he learned English and had roles in several films. He continued to Hollywood at the end of 1935, where he only had a couple of roles in B movies before dying in 1937 at the age of 46.
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King Fu's yellow house
1931-04-16
When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who re
The Wildcat
1921-04-14
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits,
Mary
1931-03-02
When actress Mary Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence point
Dr. Wislizenus
1924-03-03
Deep in the forest lives the bitter Dr. Wislizenus, whose childhood sweetheart Maria committed suici
Isle of Fury
1936-10-10
An island pearl merchant and his new wife make room for a mysterious shipwrecked man.
Murder at Monte Carlo
1935-01-01
A professor comes up with a system to win at roulette, and goes to the famous casino at Monte Carlo
Vienna, City of Song
1930-04-03
Steffi is in love with the unemployed musician Pepi. Still, her father the musical instrument retail
Bengal Tiger
1936-07-29
After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.
Hot Money
1936-07-18
Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
The House on the Moon
1921-01-28
The House on the Moon
Red Wagon
1933-12-06
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan
Blossom Time
1934-07-06
World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on
Mountains on Fire
1931-09-27
Two of Germany's best and busiest directors collaborated on Berge in Flammen (Mountain in Flames).
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
1935-12-13
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to
The Great Leap
1927-12-20
A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing o
Moral
1928-01-20
When a travelling troupe threatens to unleash a saucy Berlin revue on the provincial town of Emilsbu
Bulldog Jack
1935-09-01
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket play
Heart's Desire
1935-08-01
Richard Tauber, the great Austrian tenor, features in the story of a singing peasant from a Vienna b
The Scotland Yard Mystery
1934-01-03
A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare
Sumurun
1920-09-01
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunc
Die Warenhausprinzessin
1926-12-17
a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Mimi
1935-03-28
A struggling playwright in 1850s Paris and his mate finds love that furnishes him with the inspirati
The Fight for the Matterhorn
1928-11-27
Struggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama f
The Lost Paradise
1931-12-31
18 Minutes
1935-04-07
A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall s
Jew Süss
1934-10-13
A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by L
Die drei Kuckucksuhren
1926-05-25
Lord Ernest Clifton lives with his beautiful wife, Gladys, at Easton Lodge. He has lost immense weal
A Crazy Night
1927-01-21
Auferstehung. Katjuscha Maslowa
1923-08-01
A nobleman wishes to help the woman he had seduced and abandoned years earlier when he learns that s
Küssen ist keine Sünd'
1926-09-30
The Double Murder of Sarajevo
1920-01-16
A dramatization of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand.