Leonard Steckel

Birth : 1901-01-18, Iwano-Frankiwsk, Ukraine

Death : 1971-02-09

History

Leonard Steckel was a German actor and director of stage and screen.

Movies

Einer muß der Dumme sein
Director
Der Meteor
Wolfgang Schwitter
Kabale und Liebe
Kammerdiener
Anastasia
Kriminaloberinspektor Dr. Grünberg
Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti
Puntila
Plädoyer für einen Rebellen
Untersuchungsrichter Hazelhoff
Die Silberflöte
Oliver Erwenter
The Visit
Minister
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
Überfahrt
Mr. Lingley
Nachts ging das Telefon
Th. Th. Th. Meyer
Affäre Blum
Dr. Jakob Blum
The Secret of the Black Trunk
Dr. Daniel Bransby, Arzt
A series of knife murders have an odd feature about them; the victims find that their luggage has been packed for them just before their deaths. Scotland Yard investigates, and discover that the murders are linked to an addictive drug called Mescadrine.
Das Kartenspiel
Albert
Die Spur der Leidenschaft
Director
Das Haus voller Gäste
Albert Brack
Sweetheart of the Gods
Fürst
Biography of the famous German actress Renate Müller, who died in 1937 under unsettled circumstances; While doing her first movie for the UFA in Berlin, she meets the elderly secretary-general Dr. Simon and is impressed by his charm. Although her Nazi-friend Volker discourages her to befriend a Jew, they start dating. While she ascends to one of the most famous German actresses of her time, Simon is suffering more and more under the Nazi regime.
Der eingebildete Kranke
Director
The Doctor of Stalingrad
Major Dr. Kresin, Distriktarzt
Dr. Fritz Böhler is a prisoner of war doctor in the Soviet POW camp 5110/47 near Stalingrad. Despite the harshest conditions, he tries to help his fellow prisoners with the simplest means. But when his assistant Dr. Schultheiss falls in love with the Russian doctor Alexandra Kasalinskaja, Schultheiss not only endangers his own life - because Alexandra is the lover of First Lieutenant Markow.
Stresemann
Aristide Briand
The Captain from Kopenick
Adolph Wormser
The 1956 movie based on the theater play by Carl Zuckmayer based on the true story of cobbler Wilhelm Voigt who dressed up as a German military officer and, with the help of unsuspecting soldiers, took over the city hall in Köpenick and confiscated the city's purse.
Staatsbegräbnis
Außenminister
Ballerina
Opernintendant
Du mein stilles Tal
Doctor
Du mein stilles Tal
Director
Liebe ohne Illusion
Professor Dürkheim
Little Friends
Dr. Falconi
At the age of three, little Wolfgang has lost his parents. Since then his uncle Eduard raises the boy. As a former concertmaster Eduard has recognized how gifted his nephew is and the boy learns the hard way. The 6-year-old must practice daily 6 hours at the piano and already impresses at famous music parties. When Eduard Fabricius breaks a leg after a concert in Lucerne and must go to the hospital, he can be persuaded by a pediatrician to grant some carefree vacation weeks in a manor for Wolfgang. The manor belongs to the young widow Elisabeth who soon grows very fond of the little boy. Wolfgang makes friends with 11-year-old Heidi and Jöggi, a boy his age who first saw a rival in him...
Der letzte Sommer
Kommissar Berki
Ewiger Walzer
Baron Carlo Todesco
The Venus of Tivoli
Director
Unemployed and homeless actors following the dream of finding the future in South America. The manager Osvaldo Curtis tricks the group of colorful and failed artists to apply for a special visa overseas.
Palace Hotel
Director
The paths of guests and employees cross at the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz: A chambermaid experiences financial difficulties. A guest has been robbed. A thief is caught. An assistant cook is promoted to waiter. And there’s no shortage of love in this small world of the great Hotel Palace. Keeping an orderly eye over proceedings is the hotel’s beautiful patron, whose heart is in the right place.
Unsichtbare Gegner
Santos
Hände aus dem Dunkel
Fed Harras
Film by Waschneck.
A Song for You
Opern-Regisseur
During a concert tour, famous tenor Riccardo Gatti meets Lixie at an Aida rehearsal and takes her for a ballet dancer. She is in fact trying to get a position for her boyfriend, so she accepts Gatti's date for supper. When she runs away he publishes a newspaper ad offering to give a concert anywhere she chooses if she shows up. She chooses a swimming pool hoping to discourage him, but he accepts.
Salon Dora Green
Sucharow
Kampf um Blond
Der Levantiner
Spione im Savoy-Hotel
Almassy, Antiquitätenhändler
Ich will nicht wissen, wer Du bist
Alvarez Zambesi, brasilianischer Kaffee-König
Nights in Port Said
The niece of a shady tavern-keeper of Port Said, surrounded by dangerous men who haunt the ports, meets a man whom she will love and with whom she flees.
Gitta Discovers Her Heart
Der Primas
The Company's in Love
Harry Bing - Regisseur
The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the film, they decide to replace her with the village's young post office clerk Gretl, who returns to Berlin with them. There she has to struggle with the movie's all-male crew, who all try to woo and win her.
The daredevil
Barini, Inhaber des Hippodrom
Harbour policeman Hans and his companion rescue a young woman from water during their night watch, to find out she is connected with a jewel robbery in which a gangster now owner of an hippodrome, an out jailed one and his mistress now mixed up with an American millionaire weave some obscure plans.
The adventure in Tunisia
Ferrero