Willy Birgel

AKA: Вилли Биргель, Wilhelm Maria Birgel
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1891-09-19

Köln, Germany

Biography

Crew Roles

Rosenmontag
Director
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {86}

Herr Sesemann

1955-03-08 6.8

Heidi und Peter

Heidi lives with Alp-Öhi n the Swiss Alps in the summer, where she helps Peter tend the goats. In winter, she stays in the village and attends school. One day, a letter arrives from Heidi's German fri ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Herr Sesemann

1952-11-13 7.1

Heidi

Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss Alps to live with her ornery grandfather. At first, he resents her presence, but, after a short while, Heid ...
Genre :Drama, Family

Sir Albert Finsburry

1937-08-30 6.7

To New Shores

A 19th-century London cabaret singer is deported to prison in Australia. Her crime? Taking the blame when her lover bounces checks. ...
Genre :Drama

Alexander Corty

1947-12-11 6.4

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

A group of people gathers back in the post-war ruins of a luxurious Munich hotel they inhabited at one point or another years before; each trying to cope with the tragic consequences of the war and th ...
Genre :Drama, War

Agent Morris

1936-08-19 6

The Traitor

This 1936 film tells the story of the doings of foreign agents in Germany and their allies among the German population. Having placed an ad in a local paper looking for "contact with bigwigs in Germa ...
Genre :Drama

Garvenberg, Generalmusikdirektor

1936-06-26 5.9

The Final Chord

After her husband dies, a German woman who gave up her infant for adoption to emigrate to America returns to Germany, discovering that her child is being raised by a married orchestra conductor. ...
Genre :Music, Drama

Tabor Vary

1938-12-14 6

Der Blaufuchs

Ilona, the bored wife of an easily distracted professor, falls in love with his friend Tibor, a world-traveler and ladykiller. Although she pursues him, he declines to take advantage of the situation ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Christian von Hergeth

1956-10-29 4

Johannisnacht

Genre :Drama, Romance

Ulrich Campenhausen

1951-03-21 5.5

Das ewige Spiel

A woman between two men. Horror melodrama. ...
Genre :Drama

Alfredo Zubaran

1935-03-03 0

Barcarole

A young reckless womaniser is trapped one night at his club into a bet with a Mexican that he will win his wife before morning. There will be a duel in any case: if he loses his bet the Mexican will f ...
Genre :Drama

Thomas Jefferson

1964-08-21 5.6

Coffin from Hong Kong

A private detective finds the limp body of a young Chinese beauty in his office, shot with his own gun. ...
Genre :Action, Mystery, Crime

Omar Abdullah

1966-04-22 3.5

Agent 505 - Death Trap Beirut

A couple of beautiful girls are murdered while sunbathing at a luxury hotel. The killer too is murdered, but able to reveal – before dying - that they were disposed of because the “knew too much”. Som ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

Lord Kelton

1962-09-27 0

Frau Cheneys Ende

Genre :

Joachim Köhler

1958-07-22 0

Liebe kann wie Gift sein

After having lost her mother Magdalena was brought up on strict boarding school disciplines. When returning to her father, she is looked after by an educator who lacks the ability to guide the longing ...
Genre :Drama

Graf La Trémouille, Stadtkommandant

1935-04-26 5

Joan of Arc

France in the 15th Century: The country is marked by the wars with England and internal power struggles. King Charles sees himself powerless against the state. As emerges from the people suddenly a yo ...
Genre :History, Drama

Robert Lennart, Dirigent

1956-10-25 7

Ein Herz kehrt heim

Genre :Romance

Lord Bothwell

1940-11-01 6.2

The Heart of a Queen

As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some s ...
Genre :Drama

engl. Lagerkommandant

1934-07-25 4.8

A Man Wants to Get to Germany

On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men. ...
Genre :Adventure

Stefan Schefczuk

1939-03-15 6.7

Hotel Sacher

Vienna is celebrating New Year’s Eve 1913/14. It is the year, which will see the outbreak of the First World War. In Hotel Sacher, the mood is excellent; and although the political atmosphere is cha ...
Genre :Drama

Baron Fahlen

1937-02-16 5

Menschen ohne Vaterland

Genre :

Rittmeister von Brenken

1941-08-18 5

....reitet für Deutschland

Genre :

Rittmeister Igor Wronski

1954-10-11 5.5

Cavalry Captain Wronski

A Polish officer works undercover in 1930s Berlin to discover Nazi Germany's plans against his homeland. ...
Genre :Thriller

Jagdautor

1966-06-27 5.8

No Shooting Time for Foxes

Two old school friends, both in their late twenties. One lives on his parent’s rural estate and does nothing; the other half-heartedly pursues work as a journalist in Düsseldorf. ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Herbert Fingal

1950-10-23 6

Chased by the Devil

A doctor discovers a new medical cure with dangerous side effects, and takes the drug himself to test its limitations. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Albrecht Finke

1951-12-21 5

When the Evening Bells Ring

A woman marries a rich landowner, by request of her parents, instead of her lover who's child she's expecting. After a couple of years, the father of the child returns. ...
Genre :Drama

Graf von Warthenberg

1959-10-29 5

When the Bells Sound Clearly

Austrian count von Warthenberg is a grumpy stud-farm-recluse since his wife's death. Ths summer, his old lover Susanne Weiden arrives, hoping for a 'fat' marriage and inheritance. But his daughter Han ...
Genre :Drama

Rudolf Diesel

1943-02-09 6.1

Diesel

Genre :Drama, History

Thomas Gront

1938-02-25 0

Faded Melody

After an emergency plane landing in the desert, the actress Barbara gets to know the industrialist Thomas. After they are rescued, the two live at Thomas' place in Berlin. Although she confesses her ...
Genre :Drama

Viktor Hartmann

1939-12-15 0

Kongo-Express

Genre :Adventure

Staatsanwalt Perschke

1959-08-20 2

Passionate Doctor

Genre :Drama

Hofrat Friedrich Gentz

1937-11-04 6

Fanny Elssler

Prince Klemens von Metternich orders Friedrich Gentz, one of his aides, to keep the Duke of Reichstadt---Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles---son of Napoleon and heir to the French throne, from thinking ...
Genre :Drama

Staatsanwalt Dr. Burger

1935-10-31 5

One Too Many on Board

During a journey of the "Ceder", the Captain, von Moltmann, disappears. It looks like an accident, but it could also have been murder. Attorney Dr. Burger and superintendent Störensen discover quickly ...
Genre :Crime

Fürst Abarow

1935-12-23 5.7

Black Roses

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. ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Stefan Deruga

1938-09-21 0

Der Fall Deruga

The physician Dr. Deruga is suspected of having poisoned his wife out of greed. She died after naming Deruga, poor and in debt, the sole heir in her will. There are a lot of people willing to testi ...
Genre :Crime

Keith

1940-11-07 6

Enemies

The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers ...
Genre :Drama

Major Karl von Wedell

1941-09-26 0

Comrades

King Frederick II and his leading advisors hesitate too long in the eyes of some officers, so Major von Schill decides to strike out on his own. He hoped that his brave move would be the catalyst for ...
Genre :Drama

Petroff, Woronzeffs Sekretär

1934-10-01 0

Prince Woronzeff

Baron Franz von Naydek is constantly being mistaken for Prince Woronzeff, since both look identical. One day, Woronzeff decides that this similarity might come in handy. Since he is very ill and can ...
Genre :Drama

Major Graf Schellenberg

1937-09-06 5.5

Operation Michael

During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British. ...
Genre :Drama

Capt. Arvan Terno

1938-08-06 0

Geheimzeichen LB 17

It is purely coincidental that an assassination attempt against the Minister of Defense is thwarted. The attempt on his life was made by a group of anarchists. There's an investigation of the clues, ...
Genre :Crime

Martin Pauly, Attorney

1943-02-10 0

Der dunkle Tag

Wolf Burkhardt, who has acquired mining rights in Africa, returns home to get financing for his project. At the same time, he'd like to renew his youthful love for Georgia, but is eventually, and fal ...
Genre :Drama

Profesor Dr. Burkhardt

1943-03-02 0

Du gehörst zu mir

Professor Dr. Burkhardt is a much celebrated surgeon. Obsessed with his career, he is always available when an unexpected operation comes up. That his personal life is suffering because of this obse ...
Genre :Drama

Prof. Paulus Allmann

1944-07-12 5

Ich brauche Dich

The actress Julia Bach is married to the famous director, Professor Paulus Allmann; however, no one is to know about the marriage. Julia doesn't want a career simply because she has a famous spouse. ...
Genre :Comedy

Dr. Cornelius Riehl

1948-02-27 5

Im Tempel der Venus

Genre :Drama

Wolfgang Noltenius

1945-02-23 0

The Brothers Noltenius

Wolf Noltenius is a real globetrotter. Early on, this talented young man travelled far and wide, where he earned fame as a construction planner. He moved to Brazil; but one day, homesickness got the ...
Genre :Drama

Anton Klinger

1944-09-08 0

Musik in Salzburg

Genre :Comedy

Bernhard von Halleborg

1943-06-06 0

The Heir

A few days before the planned wedding of the chief inheritor von Halleborg, he experiences a terrible blow: his beloved bride Julia has a riding accident and dies of her injuries. Von Halleborg beco ...
Genre :Drama

Herr von Birkhausen

1952-08-27 0

Don't Ask My Heart

Genre :Drama

Prof. Thomas Bohlen

1956-11-15 0

Between Time and Eternity

Between Time and Eternity ...
Genre :Drama

Ein Richter

1967-01-29 0

Der Kreidegarten

Genre :Drama

Herr von Gronau

1958-12-19 5

The Priest and the Girl

A priest falls in love with a rich man's daughter. ...
Genre :Drama

Georg von Grobitzsch

1955-10-05 0

Rosenmontag

The young lieutenant Hans Rudloff is engaged to the daughter of a councilor of commerce. However, he is in love with the flower arranger Anna. In order to marry her, he is even prepared to resign from ...
Genre :Drama

Konsul Strotthoff

1954-07-14 6

Melody Beyond Love

Marlene Roedern is a student at the Salzburg Mozarteum, as is her boyfriend, Hans Hellmer, a promising conductor. Strothoff, a government cultural representative, engages Hans to conduct at Hamburg. W ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Maitre d'Hotel

1969-10-17 0

Die Fee

Genre :Comedy

Frank

1955-08-22 0

Die Toteninsel

Genre :Drama

Dr. Kadenberg

1955-03-17 0

Ein Mann vergißt die Liebe

Genre :Crime

1957-11-14 0

Frauenarzt Dr. Bertram

Genre :Drama

Doktor

1964-10-17 0

Andorra

In Andorra on St. George’s Eve, Jewish foster‐son Andri loves Barblin, unaware she’s his half‐sister. Amid rising anti‐Semitism and family secrets, he’s falsely accused of violence, tried in a “Judens ...
Genre :Drama

Catani

1953-02-26 0

The Chaplain of San Lorenzo

Genre :Drama

Maharadscha von Jailapur Gowan

1953-11-17 0

Stars Over Colombo

Adventure film in an exotic setting based on the “Indian Tomb”: While visiting a circus in Germany, the Indian maharajah Gowan sees the rider Yrida, who comes from Swedish nobility. The maharajah fall ...
Genre :Adventure

Maharadscha von Jailapur Gowan

1954-02-05 0

Circus Girl

Sequel to “Stars above Columbo”: Yrida, a circus rider who has been abducted to India, wakes up in the maharajah's palace, where the court physician convinces her that she has only dreamed all the ter ...
Genre :Adventure

Julek Staniewski

1937-01-14 5

Ride to Freedom

Genre :Drama

Professor Förster

1956-03-28 6.3

Ballerina

Bettina Sanden, a solo dancer at the opera, falls ill with polio. The chances of a cure look rather slim. ...
Genre :Drama

Waldemar Velte

1968-10-08 6

Beyond Control

Germany 1934. In the middle of a southern German forest, a number of mannequins are placed on the two men, Waldemar Velte and Kurt Sandweg from Wuppertal, with their repeating rifles organize shooting ...
Genre :Drama

Fürst von Brauneck

1957-11-01 0

Die Heilige und ihr Narr

Genre :Drama, Romance

Graf Gottfried

1958-11-21 7

The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina

Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German police have to solve a recent robbery. Teo is a photo ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Theodor von Bruggern

1962-09-27 4

Romanze in Venedig

Deeply disappointed by her bridegroom, Andrea flees from Bruggern to the south and experiences a beautiful "Romance in Venice". She falls in love with the boyish-charming pianist Stefan Schröder. But ...
Genre :Drama

Koppe

1968-01-23 0

Der Meteor

Genre :Drama

Lord Edward Grenham

1969-08-08 0

Sind wir das nicht alle?

Genre :Drama

Fürst von Alegretto

1971-01-01 0

Professor Sound und die Pille

Great excitement in the Principality of Allegretto. Professor Sound, owner of a sanatorium for musical instruments, has come up with a sensational invention: the music pill. Once swallowed, it transfo ...
Genre :Comedy

Cameron, Kunstschütze

1959-02-18 0

Hippodrome

Genre :Drama

Botschafter

1964-03-22 0

Der Gefangene der Botschaft

Genre :Drama

Karl Felix Fürst zu Schwarzenberg

1939-12-14 5

Maria Ilona

In 1848, the freedom-loving Hungarian people, led by Ludwig Kossuth, rose up against the hated rule of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty. In its expansionist policy, the Austrian monarchy had long relied ...
Genre :Drama

General Werkonen

1939-04-22 5.5

Der Gouverneur

In an imaginary Scandinavian country, an ambitious radical buys an indebted estate in order to become a member of parliament as a local resident, which he ultimately succeeds in doing. Salvation in th ...
Genre :Drama

Dr. Petersen

1945-01-01 0

Leb’ wohl, Christina

Genre :Drama

Gowan

1962-05-03 0

Die blonde Frau des Maharadscha

Maharaj Gowan is in love with the blonde circus rider Yrida. However, the son of the Maharaj also have strong feelings for her. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Sylvester Wolrat

1958-11-21 0

Ihr Bräutigam

Genre :Comedy

Dr. Austin Sloper

1958-07-09 0

Die Erbin

Genre :Drama

1945-01-26 5

Die Jahre vergehen

The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm (Werner ...
Genre :Drama

Komtur

1963-01-10 0

Don Juan in der Hölle

Genre :Drama

Self

1965-09-24 0

Studio III - Aus Kunst und Wissenschaft

Genre :Documentary, News

Self

1963-04-29 0

Blick zurück im Film

Genre :Documentary, News

Self

1964-09-26 0

Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen

Genre :Talk

Self

1948-01-01 9

Bambi-Verleihung

The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities ...
Genre :Reality

Self

1951-01-01 6

Deutscher Filmpreis

Genre :Reality

Self

1964-04-01 6

Die Drehscheibe

Genre :Talk

Self

1955-01-02 6.5

What Am I?

Genre :Talk, Reality