Ernst Legal

AKA:
0.1401

1881-05-02

Schlieben, Germany

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {44}

1923-03-26 5

Friedrich Schiller - Eine Dichterjugend

In his film version, Curt Goetz shifts the focus away from the poetic output towards the young Friedrich Schiller himself: on the misery of his soul whilst a pupil of the ducal military academy, his o ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Nelson

1934-08-16 5

Charley's Aunt

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits with Amy and K ...
Genre :Comedy

Herr Wittkuhn

1939-11-02 6.2

The Journey to Tilsit

A villager is tempted by a sophisticated city woman and almost kills his wife in a boating accident. ...
Genre :Drama

Stout

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

Sergeant

1938-08-23 0

Diskretion – Ehrensache

Genre :Comedy

Der alte Albert - Kellner

1938-01-30 7

Die Umwege des schönen Karl

Karl Kramer is a waiter in a beach hotel on the Baltic Sea. But he has completely different plans in mind for the future. Before he marries Grete Wernicke, the daughter of the hotel manager, he wants ...
Genre :Comedy

Amtsrichter

1938-01-06 7.1

The Mountain Calls

The Italian mountaineer Carel wants to be the first man to stand on the top of the Matterhorn. Since the climb is very difficult, he agrees to try it together with the British mountaineer Whymper. But ...
Genre :Drama

Bürgermeister

1950-10-16 0

Es kommt ein Tag

Melodrama set during wartime. ...
Genre :

Antonio

1949-11-25 0

Figaros Hochzeit

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the classical German musical heritage. This enchanting film, the very first opera production of DEFA, s ...
Genre :Romance, Music, Comedy

Professer Kortlein

1948-11-05 0

Und wieder 48

In 1948, students from Berlin University take part in the filming of a movie about the 1848 revolution as extras. A dispute arises between Else and Heinz, who tends to dismiss the revolution as a comi ...
Genre :Drama

Trödler

1937-04-11 0

Die gläserne Kugel

Genre :

Hotelier Sutter

1935-11-05 0

Anschlag auf Schweda

Genre :Drama

Mr. Strawman

1937-08-02 6.3

Seven Slaps

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 ma ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Josef Boelke

1936-12-30 0

Kinderarzt Dr. Engel

Genre :Drama

Professor Cravallo

1937-03-18 5

Die göttliche Jette

Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to au ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Music

Zillich

1951-08-31 6.5

The Kaiser's Lackey

Diederich Heßling is scared of everything and everyone. But as he grows up, he comes to realize that he has to offer his services to the powers-that-be if he wants to wield power himself. His life mot ...
Genre :Drama, History, Comedy

Poison-Maker of the Czar

1924-11-13 6.4

Waxworks

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fanta ...
Genre :Fantasy, Horror

Schladebach, Bäckermeister

1936-01-23 6

Traumulus

This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled about all things, while the other town officials wan ...
Genre :Drama

Wirt in Sevilla

1938-07-04 0

Andalusische Nächte

When the dancer Carmen visits the bullfighter Antonio, who has stabbed a gypsy, in prison, she meets the dragoon brigadier José. The two immediately take a liking to each other, and from that day on, ...
Genre :Drama

Wilhelm Spier

1947-03-30 0

No Place for Love

While on leave in Berlin during the Second World War, a soldier named Hans meets a young woman named Monika. They fall in love and make plans for a future together after the war. Yet their later attem ...
Genre :Comedy

Möbelpacker

1937-10-12 6.3

Der Mustergatte

Heinz Rühmann plays the "model husband" who, when his bored wife threatens to leave him, embarks on an adventurous night. ...
Genre :Comedy

1938-11-30 6

Tanz auf dem Vulkan

Paris, 1830: Jean-Gaspard Debureau performs on the stage and delights his audience with song, wit and charm. He is, however, very unpopular with King Charles X, who is the target of much of Debureau ...
Genre :Drama, History

1943-12-08 6.6

Immensee

A man and a woman struggle to stifle their love for each other, even after he moves away to travel the world and she marries a suitor. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

1942-09-03 5.3

The Golden City

Anna Jobst is the daughter of a rich, conservative farmer. Living on the bank of the Moldau, she wishes nothing more than follow the river to Prague, the "Golden City". After arriving, she quickly fa ...
Genre :Drama

Dieter Jean

1937-07-14 7.2

The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

Two dubious characters disguise themselves as Holmes and Watson to gain attention and end up chasing counterfeiters and stolen stamps. ...
Genre :Comedy, Crime

Mayor Kilmank

1936-10-01 5

Maria, die Magd

An actress and her lawyer husband are so busy that their maid becomes the real mother to their six year old boy and at one point causes consternation by taking the child away to her home village. ...
Genre :Drama

1943-08-20 5

Die Jungfern vom Bischofsberg

Genre :Comedy

Nordboden

1950-03-30 0

Frech und verliebt

Penniless Peter Schild looks for work when arrived in Germany. Working as a private eye he has to observe a young lady who is willing to marry an unemployed actor against the will of her parents. ...
Genre :

Kriminalrat

1944-03-29 6

Sieben Briefe

Genre :Drama

1945-01-01 0

Rätsel der Nacht

Genre :Drama

Emil Müller

1937-02-26 6

His Best Friend

Remake of a 1929 German film by the same title about a man and a police dog. ...
Genre :Crime

Kraatz

1935-10-30 5

Der Mann mit der Pranke

"The Man with the Paw" is what people call the very successful banker Wiegant, who is desperately in love with Lena Kroning, the wife of the lawyer Hugo Kroning. So as to be nearer to her, Wiegant hi ...
Genre :Crime

Schießbudenmann/Alter/Kesselflicker

1937-01-01 6

Rotkäppchen und der Wolf

The first partly colored German fairy tale film directed by Fritz Genschow. The film has a frame story shot in black and white and a middle section in color that tells the story of Little Red Riding H ...
Genre :Family, Fantasy

Graf Saumagen

1936-01-17 0

August der Starke

Intrigue and love affairs at the court of the Saxon King Augustus the Strong, who can bend a horseshoe with his bare hands and is fighting with the Swedish King Charles XII for control of Poland. When ...
Genre :Drama

Dienstmann

1939-04-04 8.7

The Leghorn Hat

Der Florentiner Hut (The Leghorn Hat), a 1939 German film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner ...
Genre :Comedy

1942-09-11 5.6

Andreas Schlüter

Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter. ...
Genre :Drama

Goriot

1952-01-25 0

Karriere in Paris

France at the time of the Restoration. The young country gentleman Rastignac comes to Paris to study. He takes up residence in a poor boarding house, where his father Goriot, who has been excluded by ...
Genre :Comedy

1943-06-25 6.8

Romance in a Minor Key

A grieving husband tries to uncover the truth behind his wife's suicide, leading him to discover a tragic tale of infidelity and redemption. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1938-01-01 5.7

Altes Herz geht auf die Reise

The underage Rosemarie is still too young to run her inherited farm by herself; but she's more than aware that her foster father and the farm's administrator, the farmer Schlieker, is constantly skimm ...
Genre :Drama

Fouché

1922-02-03 0

The Death Agony of the Eagles

After the death of Napoleon, colonel Montaner plots to restore the Empire, but falls in love with Lise, a beautiful dancer. ...
Genre :History, Drama

1934-04-14 0

Altgermanische Bauernkultur

A Nazi propaganda film meant to glorify German history and to persuade people that the Teutons weren't barbarians but had a notable culture of their own. The topic is embedded into a little story line ...
Genre :Drama, Documentary

1944-11-17 7.1

Dir zuliebe

Genre :Romance

1944-12-05 4

Spiel

Genre :Romance

1944-04-04 5

Glück unterwegs

1944 film. ...
Genre :Comedy