Willy Fritsch

Willy Fritsch

Nascimento : 1901-01-27, Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland]

Morte : 1973-07-13

História

Willy Fritsch war der bekannteste deutsche Schauspieler neben Hans Albers und Heinz Rühmann in den vierziger Jahren, er drehte mehrere Filme mit Lillian Harvey bis diese nach Frankreich emigrierte Er ist der Vater des Schauspielers Thomas Fritsch

Perfil

Willy Fritsch

Filmes

Austern mit Senf
Writer
Luc and Gaston are French bus drivers who would do almost anything for pretty girls. Thus they "borrow" one of their firms busses in order to bring some girls to Kitzbuehel for skiing.
Die Kleine mit dem süßen Po
Writer
A naive innkeeper arrives from the Alps into town to investigate his shady investor only to discover that he owns a sex shop. Needing money for a good cause, he and his sons join in. However, his partner is actually a diamond smuggler.
Elisabeth - Kaiserin von Österreich
Writer
Einer spinnt immer
Writer
A comedy directed by Franz Antel.
Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten
Self - Co-Host
I Learned It from Father
Clemens Andermann
Rauf und runter
Der Himmel kann warten
Alexander Allerson
The Bellboy and the Playgirls
The bellboy aspires to be a private eye and is reading a book to learn the trade. The 'suspicious' activities of women in the hotel give him a chance to practice his skills. Surprise! They are representatives of a lingerie manufacturer. To investigate further, he poses as a potential buyer, and the women take turns modeling their wares.
Isola Bella
Konsul Stülcken
Consul daughter Anne Stülcken wants to take her fiancee undetected under the magnifying glass and therefore slips in her father's villa in the role of a maid.
Was macht Papa denn in Italien?
Studienrat Hanselmann
Wenn die Heide blüht
Dr. Erdmann
Sweetheart of the Gods
Gunzel
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.
Hubertusjagd
Otto von Lindenberg
The young Monika Dahlhoff returns from the USA after two years. As soon as she arrives, she learns that her father wants to sell his traditional stud farm, because he has quarreled with the members of the equestrian club. Accordingly annoyed is the old Dahlhoff, when his daughter just fell in love with the son of his greatest enemy. In the annual "Hubertusjagd" there is a dramatic encounter between the men.
Mit Eva fing die Sünde an
Gregor
Schwarzwälder Kirsch
Arthur Altenberg
Zwei Herzen im Mai
Gesenius
Der schräge Otto
Alexander Korty
Die Beine von Dolores
Herr Lehmann
Solange noch die Rosen blüh'n
Richard Kühn
Another German Heimatfilm.
Das Donkosakenlied
Chefarzt Dr. Burger
After the death of his mother, little Peter lives with his great sister Helga at his adoptive father Professor Hartmann. Peter is seriously ill, can not get upset and therefore also on the advice of his doctor Heinz Stark no more music. Even his revered Donkosaks , who remember him with their songs to his Russian mother, can no longer listen to him on the radio. It is all the more pleasing to him when the choir, during a tour with their conductor Serge Jaroff and their manager Rolf Bender, has an autopanne near his home. While Chauffeur Karl repairs the bus, Peter sings the choir's title The Evening Star, glowing us two - a song of his mother, which the choir has never heard before.
Wo die alten Wälder rauschen
Harald Rehm
Schwarzwaldmelodie
Herbert Olberg
The Three from the Filling Station
Three young men working at a filling station fall in love with the same woman.
Three from the Gasoline Station
Konsul Willy Kossmann
Robert, Peter and Fritz are the best of friends ... and hopelessly broke. But they don't let that stop them and in short order, they end up renting a deserted gas station. With just a little bit of wit and some elan, they'll bring the old girl back to life and all will look rosy ... until all three of them fall in love with the same dame: Gabi, the daughter of the director of a large gasoline firm. Thanks to her, their eternal friendship is really going to be put to the test.
Liebe ist ja nur ein Märchen
Dr. Lindenberg
Drei Tage Mittelarrest
Major von Faber
Adventure in Rio
Silvester
A remake of the 1940 film of the same title. It was shot on location in Brazil with separate German and Italian versions.
Der fröhliche Wanderer
Kurt Henner
Weg in die Vergangenheit
Werner Schrey
Maxie
Direktor Walter Rhomberg
Hungarian Rhapsody
Großherzog
When the White Lilacs Bloom Again
Willy Forster
Married couple Willy and Therese go separate ways. Willy leaves town and returns years later as a famous singer. But Therese is about to marry her best friend Peter. Little does Willy know that he and Therese now have a teenage daughter.
Damenwahl
Herbert Blank
Von Liebe reden wir später
Professor Christian Hollmann
At the well in front of the gate
Roberts Vater
Ferien vom Ich
Dr. Hartung
Mikosch rückt ein
Oberst von Körömsbös
The Heath Is Green
Amtsrichter
After the end of World War II Lüder Lüdersen, the former owner of a feudal estate in the East, and his daughter Helga arrive as refugees in the Lüneburg Heath. While living a seemingly happy life on the estate of his cousin, Lüdersen hides a dark secret: he is a poacher.
Die verschleierte Maja
Schön muß man sein
Jupp Holunder
König für eine Nacht
König Ludwig I von Bayern
Mädchen mit Beziehungen
Dr. Kobel
An unemployed engineer who does not want his fiancee to protect him has accidentally insulted his future boss, unknown and for no reason. From this meager idea, a stupidly rolled-out confusion with pop song in a Mexico bar develops.
Die wunderschöne Galathee
Marcel Thomas
Schatten der Nacht
Ernst Magnus
Kätchen für alles
Georg Vorster
Derby
Gutsbesitzer Herr Dahlen
Zwölf Herzen für Charly
Dr. Wolfgang Amadeus Wagenbichler / Charly
Hallo - Sie haben Ihre Frau vergessen
Dr. Hans Ollendorf
Finale
Dr. Thomas Benninghoff
Film Without Title
als er selbst
A screenwriter comes up with a story about an affair between a maid and her employer.
Die Fledermaus
Gefängnisdirektor Frank
Produced in 1944, finished and released in 1946.
Das Leben geht weiter
Axel Aressen
Die tolle Susanne
Junge Adler
training manager Roth
Director Brakke has good reason to be happy: he has just received the news that his son, Theo, won first place in the local boat race. To be sure, he had forbidden his son to take part in the competition, because the son's grades in school are substandard. In the end, Brakke sees no other way than to pull Theo from school and install him as an apprentice in his airplane manufacturing plant. Although Theo is received by the other 150 apprentices in a friendly fashion, he behaves in an arrogant and disrespectful tone towards them. He feels himself to be better than them, because his father is the director of the factory.
Die Gattin
Walter Baumann
Puck Niklas (Jenny Jugo) loves her husband Peter even though her brother thinks he's a no-good. She's very charming and a bit crazy and does everything to help him get an engagement as an architect. Opportunity comes knocking in the form of factory owner Walter Baumann (Willy Fritsch) who sees through her trickery but at the same time charmed by her, he gives her Peter the job. Soon Walter finds out
Der kleine Grenzverkehr
Georg Rentmeister
Liebesgeschichten
Werner Lüdtke
Geliebte Welt
Generaldirektor Dr. Blohm
Anschlag auf Baku
Hans Romberg, Sicherheitsdienst-Offizier
Viennese Spirit
Count Georg Wolkersheim
A musical comedy directed by Willi Forst.
Women Are Better Diplomats
Rittmeister von Karstein
A seductive dancer (Marika Rökk) helps her uncle to fight against the closing of his casino. Through her feminine charm she achieves diplomatic success.
Leichte Muse
Pe Pe Müller
A composer finds commercial success but has to confront difficulties in his private life.
Dreimal Hochzeit
Fürst Alexander Woronin
Das leichte Mädchen
Dietz Frobelius
Dietz' relatives are horrified to discover that Dietz, the son of a wealthy merchant, is planning to marry an actress, who is known to appear in rather daring roles. Dietz finds a way to escape from a gathering over coffee, during which he's supposed to be introduced to "decent ladies". After all, his great love is waiting for him somewhere else.
Die keusche Geliebte
Pierre Dugard, Plantagenbesitzer
Die unvollkommene Liebe
Thomas Holk
Streit um den Knaben Jo
Hans Eckardt
German film.
Die Geliebte
Therese
A love story between officer von Warp coming from a wealthy family and salesgirl Therese. When the social rules of the time would force the officer to resign from service in order to marry Therese the situation becomes tense.
Woman at the Wheel
Paul Banky
Am seidenen Faden
Richard Hellwerth
Das Mädchen von gestern Nacht
Stanley Stalton
Zwischen den Eltern
Dr. Hans Ravenborg, Arzt
A Prussian Love Story
Prinz Wilhelm von Preußen
The film depicts the love affair between William I and Elisa Radziwill.
Gewitterflug zu Claudia
Droste - Flugkapitän
Seven Slaps
William Tenson MacPhab
William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.
Menschen ohne Vaterland
Oberleutnant Maltzach
Lucky Kids
Gil Taylor, Reporter
After completing work on the British musical Invitation to the Waltz, Lillian Harvey returned to her adopted country of Germany to star in the comedy-with-music Glueckskinder (Children of Fortune). Harvey plays Ann Garden, an unemployed actress who ends up in night court on a loitering charge. Here she meets Gil Taylor (Willy Fritsch), a struggling songwriter temporarily employed as a court reporter. Hoping to keep her out of jail, Gil impulsively tells the judge that he's engaged to Ann -- whereupon the judge, equally impulsively, marries the couple on the spot! After this inauspicious start, Ann and Gil embark upon a rocky (but tuneful) whirlwind romance.
Boccaccio
Petruccio, Stadtschreiber
The residents of the town of Ferrara are swept up in a tide of emotion and physical passion by the writings of a Renaissance author. Before long, the town is in chaos and it becomes difficult to keep track of which characters have been involved with one another. Is it any wonder the Germans didn't take their Italian allies seriously?!
Black Roses
Erkki Collin
Erkki Collin is a hunted man. The Czar’s soldiers have been close on the heels of the leader of the rebellious Finns, who have been fighting the Russian occupiers since the end of the 18th Century. His flight leads him to the chambers of the dancer Marina Feodorowna, in whose house a party is taking place at that very moment. Marina discovers the intruder, hides him from his pursuers and soon falls in love with him. But hiding Erkki forever is not an option; so she presents him as her music teacher. The swindle fails and Prince Governor Abarow, who’s long had a thing for Marina, discovers the real identity of the man, but doesn’t have him arrested.
Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds
Jupiter / Amphitryon
Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to seduce her as himself: an old man. Failing in this, he disguises himself as Amphitryon (Alkemene's husband) and tries again. Next morning Amphitryon and his men come back from war; he suspects adultery and wants a divorce. Jupiter's wife Juno now also comes to earth and clears things up.
Prinzessin Turandot
Kalaf
Die Insel
Raak, Handelsattaché
A case of espionage in high society: To save the reputation of his county, a diplomat voluntarily takes his own life.
Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz
Graf Marenzi d. Jüngere
A Prince's Young Love
Fürst Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau
Period romance set in Bismarck's Second Empire about a nobleman who wants to marry the daughter of a lowly pharmacist.
Waltz War
Pauker Gustl
Cairo Season
Tobby Blackwell
Comedy with an Egyptian backdrop: Businessman Tobby and the Countess Stafanie wish to take all the fun away from their single parents and make them marry each other. Their parents have the same plan, too ... but with regards to their nosy kids. And so it happens, that Tobby wants to surprise the parents with the announcement of their -- the parents' -- engagement at a party (so nice to let them know), but is one-upped by Stefanie's father, the old Count, who announces the engagement of the kids. To avoid a scandal, they have to get married, but will divorce later.
I by Day, You by Night
Hans
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, he sleeps there by night and she by day. They've never meet , but they can't stand each other. Then they meet by chance, not knowing who's who and fall in love.
A Blonde Dream
Willy I
Rival window cleaners Willy I and Willy 2 befriend Jou-Jou, an aspiring dancer, who has been tricked out of money by a con-man posing as an American movie mogul, and together they turn an old railway carriage into a "Villa Hollywood" for her.
A Mad Idea
Paul Lüders
A series of stupid coincidences causes the young Munich painter Paul to convert his uncle's castle into a hotel for four weeks. But he can't complain: business is good and he has plenty of guests. For exmple, there's Theo Muller with his revue troupe. For reasons of "sound", Muller calls himself "Miller", which, of course, causes more confusion. His daughter, the beautiful Evelyn, is confused with Mabel Miller, who has come to the hotel on a mission for her filthy rich father ... namely, to estimate the worth of the castle.
The Cheeky Devil
Junger Mann
Adaptation of a French comedy, set in Paris, in which a lecherous man sets his sights on a beautiful married woman, whose husband is otherwise distracted.
The Congress Dances
Zar Alexander von Russland / Uralsky
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
In the Employ of the Secret Service
Thomas Higgins
During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its expected attack against the German lines.
Her Grace Commands
Leutnant Karl von Conradi
An emancipated Princess, who has just returned home to her court in the Balkans from England, goes in disguise to a servants’ bal and falls in love with an alleged caterer, who turns out next day to be a lieutenant of the guard. Without letting on to her masquerade, she makes sure he climbs the ranks quickly. At the same time, she tries to thwart her engagement to an unpopular prince.
Burglars
Durand
The young wife of a rich old husband is prevented of a fling by a gentleman-burglar, who falls in love to her.
The Three from the Filling Station
Willy
Die Drei von der Tankstelle, meaning The Three from the Gas Station, was advertised as a German operetta when release and with it’s star studded cast would become the forerunner of Musical films. Even today the soundtrack of the comic harmonists is popular in Germany.
Hocuspocus
Peter Bille
Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation of the play Hokuspokus by Curt Goetz.
Love waltz
Bobby Fould
Melodie des Herzens
János Garas
A young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.
A Mulher na Lua
Wolf Helius
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
Ihr dunkler Punkt
Docks of Hamburg
Klaus Brandt
When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young, attractive woman and the otherwise upright sailor allows her to slip away. Jenny is the star of a local dive bar, with a side-line in smuggling.
Spies
No. 326"
O detetive Donald Tremaine tenta desmantelar a organização criminosa comandada pelo banqueiro Haghi. Foi uma das muitas colaborações entre Fritz Lang e sua então esposa, a roteirista Thea von Harbou.
Schuldig
"Guilty" - Thomas Feld returns home after 16 years in prison to find his wife Magda and daughter Maria fell in the hands of Peter Cornelius, the owner of a cabaret. Lawyer Frank Peters falls in love with Maria.
Hungarian Rhapsody
Lt. Franz Graf v. Turoczy
Directed by Hanns Schwarz.
His Late Excellency
Fürst Ernst Albrecht
In the Ruritanian kingdom of Leuchtenstein, the old ruler has just died. His subjects are a bunch of intrigants, and his only real friend was the Baroness Windegg (Olga Tschechowa), a kind-hearted, witty, and very attractive woman, who however was not much loved by the Leuchtenstein upper class. And as these are only interested in getting better positions and other wealths after His Excellency's death, the baroness invents the story that the old ruler wrote his memoirs before his death, containing a lot of intimate, delicate and potentially embarrassing details about the Leuchtenstein dignitaries. Unsurprisingly, everyone is afraid about the details to be revealed. Only the successor to the throne, Prince Ernst Albrecht (Willy Fritsch) sees through the baroness' scheme, and as he is a lusty young man, he joins in her prank.
The Last Waltz
Graf Dimitri Sarrasow
A Sister of Six
Count Horkay
A silent romantic comedy
The Chaste Susanne
René Boislurette
Naughty Susanne leads an exciting double life between her hometown and Paris: in the provincial nest she is considered the ever virtuous and down to earth girl, while in the cosmopolitan city she always escapes to, she is the queen of the night, sophisticated and seductive. In Paris, she meets René and begins to recruit him, but she has a noble competitor: Jacqueline. A spirited love triangle begins, complicated by the interventions of uncomprehending moral preachers. Their befitting final finds the story in the Moulin Rouge.
Die Boxerbraut
Fritz Spitz
The Waltz Dream
Nicholas Graf Preyn
Austrian actress Mady Christians stars alongside German matinee idol Willy Fritsch in this adaptation of the Oscar Straus operetta about a Prince who, after falling for a Viennese girl, becomes obsessed with the city and its customs.
The Girl with a Patron
The Girl with a Patron (German: Das Mädchen mit der Protektion) is a 1925 German silent comedy film directed by Max Mack and starring Ossi Oswalda, Willy Fritsch, and Nora Gregor. It was one of a number of popular comedies released by UFA during the era alongside its more prestigious art films.
Her Dancing Partner
Der Farmer aus Texas
Akke
Express Train of Love
Charley
Silent romantic comedy set on a train.
Guillotine
Mother and Child
Werner
His Wife, the Unknown
A war blind painter marries his nurse. But after he can see again through an operation, he does not recognize her. Then she decides to leave him in order to return to his service under a different name. Only when the painter falls in love with her as a stranger to him, she reveal herself.
Hallig Hooge
Tetze Tetens
Der Heiratsschwindler
Miss Venus
Maud Goodin is the daughter of a millionaire, content with her present life, but she is an interesting conquest for those wants to get on the social ladder.