Ernst Wendt

Ernst Wendt

Nascimento : 1876-10-26, Danzig, West Prussia, Germany [now Gdansk, Pomorskie, Poland]

História

The actor and director Ernst Wendt achieved as a stage actor round 1900 and at the beginning of the 20th century he impersonated numerous roles, among them also classical figures of history of literature. As an established theater actor he joined the film business in 1918 where he took part in few silent movies in front of the camera like "Das Maskenfest des Lebens", "Mania" and "Morphium". Afterwards he shifted his activity and became a movie director. From 1919 till the middle of the 20s he realised several movies which normally were dedicated to the adventure genre. For some of his movies he also wrote the script.

Perfil

Ernst Wendt

Filmes

Drei Schwestern
Director
Bismarck, 1. Teil
Director
Die weisse Wüste
Writer
Die weisse Wüste
Director
The Ghost With the Deadly Kiss
Writer
The good citizens of a small Austrian town are all aquiver; the schoolmaster has published a brochure in which can be read, black on white, the story of the 'dead guest,' in whose embrace the town's prospective brides found death. But worst of all, the writer of the brochure has plausibly concluded that the 'dead guest' will return this very year! A copy of this film is conserved in the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC).
The Ghost With the Deadly Kiss
Director
The good citizens of a small Austrian town are all aquiver; the schoolmaster has published a brochure in which can be read, black on white, the story of the 'dead guest,' in whose embrace the town's prospective brides found death. But worst of all, the writer of the brochure has plausibly concluded that the 'dead guest' will return this very year! A copy of this film is conserved in the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC).
Allein im Urwald
Director
Colonialist adventure film with wild animals.
Die Schreckensnacht in der Menagerie
Director
Mania. Die Geschichte einer Zigarettenarbeiterin
Das Maskenfest des Lebens