Paul Wegener

Actor

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Also Known As

Paul Hermann Wegener

Born

December 11, 1874

Died

September 13, 1948

Biography

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An esteemed member of Max Reinhardt's theater in Berlin, Wegener lent his massive bulk to an array of stage classics before making his screen debut playing dual roles in "The Student of Prague" (1913). In 1914, he co-wrote and starred in "The Golem," the first of his three adaptations of the mystical Jewish tale. Wegener directed several films through the 1940s and was awarded the title ...

Filmography

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Living Buddhas (1924)

Herzog Ferrantes Ende (1922)

Der Golem (1920)

Hans Trutz im Schlaraffenland (1917)

The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917)

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1917)

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Magician, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Concentrate Your Attention

Magician, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Margaret Dauncey, Sculpteur

Family & Companions

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Lyda Salmonova

Wife

Actor. Born 1889 in Prague, died 1968.

Biography

An esteemed member of Max Reinhardt's theater in Berlin, Wegener lent his massive bulk to an array of stage classics before making his screen debut playing dual roles in "The Student of Prague" (1913). In 1914, he co-wrote and starred in "The Golem," the first of his three adaptations of the mystical Jewish tale. Wegener directed several films through the 1940s and was awarded the title 'Actor of the State' for lending his weight to several Nazi propaganda films.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Living Buddhas (1924)

Herzog Ferrantes Ende (1922)

Der Golem (1920)

Hans Trutz im Schlaraffenland (1917)

The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917)

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1917)

The Golem (1915)

Cast (Feature Film)

The Magician (1926)

The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)

One Arabian Night (1921)

Life Events

1913

Feature acting debut in a dual role in "The Student of Prague"; also co-wrote

1914

Wrote, co-directed and starred in "The Golem/The Monster of Fate"

1916

Had title role in "The Pied Piper of Hamlin"; also co-directed

1937

Final film as director, "Krach und Gluck um Kunnemann"

1949

Made last film, "Der Grosse Mandarin"

Videos

Magician, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Concentrate Your Attention Occult-ish Paris scientist Haddo (Paul Wegener, title character), claiming he’s dropped by to apeologize for earlier bad behavior, has lightly hypnotized heroine Margaret (Alice Terry), whereupon director Rex Ingram leaps into fantasy, in The Magician, 1926, from a Somerset Maugham novel.

Magician, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Margaret Dauncey, Sculpteur Working on location in Paris, director Rex Ingram introduces his wife and production partner Alice Terry in the lead role, Gladys Hamer her hapless colleague, and a nasty art accident, opening The Magician, 1926, from a Somerset Maugham novel, starring Paul Wegener.

Magician, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Hypnotist, Magician And Student Of Medicine Paul Wegener as the title character, Oliver Haddo, dominates in his first scene, observing American surgeon Burdon (Ivan Petrovich) saving the paralyzed leading lady Margaret (Alice Terry, wife of director Rex Ingram), her doctor-uncle-guardian (Firmin Gamier) attending, in The Magician, 1926.

Magician, The (1926) -- (Movie Clip) Deadliest Of All Snakes Dr. Burdon (Ivan Petrovich) and sculptress Margaret (Alice Terry) are now an item, attending a Parisian fair, where creepy quasi-professional scientist Haddon (Paul Wegener) has been shadowing them, causing bad stuff to go down at the snake tent, in director Rex Ingram’s The Magician, 1926.

Loves Of Pharaoh, The (1922) -- (Movie Clip) You Shall Both Die Ramphis (Harry Liedtke), son of the chief architect, and slave Theonis (Dagny Servaes) get busted trespassing in the treasury building site, causing the king (Emil Jannings) to interrupt his treaty signing with the Ethiopian king (Paul Wegener), in Ernst Lubitsch's The Loves Of Pharaoh 1922.

Companions

Lyda Salmonova

Wife

Actor. Born 1889 in Prague, died 1968.

Bibliography

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