Paul Wegener
Date of birth: 1874-12-11
Place of birth: Arnoldsdorf, West Prussia, Germany [now Jarantowice, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Paul Hermann Wegener
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
The Golem
1915-01-15
This mostly lost film is often confused with director Paul Wegener third and readily available inter
The Golem: How He Came Into the World
1920-10-28
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he
A Daughter Of Destiny
1928-01-25
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this versio
Kolberg
1945-01-30
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreat
The Student of Prague
1913-08-22
Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy n
The Living Dead
1932-09-06
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down
The Magician
1926-10-24
A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo,
S.O.S. Die Insel der Tränen
1923-11-01
Only a Comedian
1935-09-02
A moving actor at the rococo era shows the power-hungry-crude minister of a small state prince in th
Sumurun
1920-09-01
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunc
The Loves of Pharaoh
1922-02-21
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countri
Der große Mandarin
1949-02-18
Vanina
1922-10-05
Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is
The Weavers
1927-04-29
Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers’ revolution.
Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen
1927-01-01
Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his ad
The Great King
1942-03-02
King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Au
Hochzeit auf Bärenhof
1942-06-08
Lucrezia Borgia
1922-10-20
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweethe
My Life for Ireland
1941-01-02
A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and
Evinrude
1914-02-21
The Golem and the Dancing Girl
1917-07-10
As a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous. A lost film.
Diesel
1943-02-09
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1918-12-19
A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pest
Inge and the Millions
1933-12-22
A well scripted and captivating thriller about the owners of a small private bank in Berlin, squeezi
Der Mann mit der Pranke
1935-10-30
"The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in
Zwielicht
1940-04-19
Wenn die Sonne wieder scheint
1943-01-01
The Termoehlens belong to the old farming class in Flanders. Their estate does well and their flax
Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen
1944-01-01
The Molander Case
1945-01-01
Das Recht auf Liebe
1939-11-24
The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
1928-01-11
Paul Wegener gives one of his most active performances here as Captain Ramper, a heroic aviator who
The Mystery of Johann Orth
1932-11-20
A Hapsburg archduke in the 1880s gives up his title, changes his name, marries a Viennese actress, a
Hans Trutz in the Land of Milk and Honey
1917-11-01
A stylized fairy tale in which a farmer sells his soul to Satan in exchange for prosperity.
The Yoghi
1916-09-01
An Indian mystic uses his power of invisibility to scare a young inventor.
Fundvogel
1930-05-19
Young Jan Bergwall visits his grandmother, the so-called centenary, at Woyland Castle. There he meet
Marshal Forward
1932-11-23
Hans Westmar
1933-12-13
Nazi film about the story of a Nazi Storm Trooper named Horst Wessel--here called "Hans Westmar"--wh
The Immortal Heart
1939-01-31
Nuremberg durting the time of Albrecht Durer and the famous geographer Martin Behaim: the locksmith
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
1943-02-10
A man of mystery known only as Doctor Terror recounts seven stories from his casebook of personal en
Madame DuBarry
1919-09-18
The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the F
In geheimer Mission
1938-12-16
Eyes of Love
1951-10-25
Rübezahl's Wedding
1916-01-01
In this film, the people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a plac
Figures of the Night
1920-01-09
"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cri
Die Welt ohne Waffen
1927-12-31
An engineer develops a device that will disarm any electrically power device, in an attempt to preve
Arme kleine Sif
1927-08-31
Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen
1923-04-24
Das Liebesnest
1922-12-31
Monna Vanna
1922-12-21
Svengali
1927-09-06
The hypnotist Svengali makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
Living Buddhas
1925-05-11
Stärker als die Liebe
1938-09-22
1938 German film.
Das Mädchen von Fanö
1941-01-24
Der Mann aus dem Jenseits
1926-02-26
Film by Manfred Noa.
The Film in the Film
1924-06-26
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the diff
A Man Wants to Get to Germany
1934-07-25
On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherlan
Herzog Ferrantes Ende
1922-11-01
In medieval Italy, a group of men plot to kill a cruel and despotic duke.
Dagfin
1926-12-20
Der Galeerensträfling
1920-07-23
Sleeping Beauty
1917-12-20
An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.
Steuermann Holk
1920-11-14
Roswolsky's Mistress
1921-09-02
Mia Verhag loses her job as a chorus singer when she rejects the advances of the theatre director. W
Der verlorene Schatten
1921-02-03
A man sells his shadow to gain success and fame but soon suffers the terrible consequences of that d
FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts
2025-03-02
Six sequences about Fascism and its segments throughout history.
The Golem
1960-04-04
A shortened, sixty-minute version of Der Golem, re-edited for US release and featuring a score by Co