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Willy Fritsch (I) (1901–1973)

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German matinée idol of the 1930's, a cheerful singing and dancing star of musical comedies and operettas. Fritsch was trained at the Max Reinhardt School in Berlin and acted on screen from the early 1920's. He successfully made the transition to sound and was then popularly paired with the actress and dancer Lillian Harvey in several films. After the war, he eased into character roles. See more trivia »

Born:

in Kattowitz, Upper Silesia, Germany [now Katowice, Slaskie, Poland]

Died:

(age 72) in Hamburg, Germany
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1964 I Learned It from Father
Clemens Andermann
 
1962 Der Himmel kann warten (TV movie)
Alexander Allerson
 
1962 The Bellboy and the Playgirls
 
1961 Isola Bella
Konsul Stülcken
 
1961 Was macht Papa denn in Italien?
Studienrat Hanselmann
 
1960 Wenn die Heide blüht
Dr. Erdman
 
1960 Sweetheart of the Gods
Gunzel
 
1960 Das gibt's doch zweimal
 
1959 Hubertusjagd
Otto Lindenberg
 
1959 Tunisi top secret
Narrator/Major Knickerbocker
 
1958 Sin Began with Eve
Gregor
 
1958 Schwarzwälder Kirsch
Arthur Altenberg
 
1958 Zwei Herzen im Mai
Gesenius
 
1957 Der schräge Otto
Alexander Korty
 
1956 Solange noch die Rosen blüh'n
Richard Kühn
 
1956 Das Donkosakenlied
Chefarzt Dr. Burger
 
1956 Wo die alten Wälder rauschen
Harald Rehm
 
1956 Schwarzwaldmelodie
Herbert Olberg
 
1956 Le chemin du paradis
 
1955 Die Drei von der Tankstelle
Konsul Kossmann
 
1955 Liebe ist ja nur ein Märchen
Dr. Lindenberg
 
1955 The Happy Wanderer
Kurt Henner
 
1955 Drei Tage Mittelarrest
Major von Faber
 
1955 Star from Rio
Silvester
 
1954 Weg in die Vergangenheit
Werner Schrey
 
1954 Maxie
Direktor Walter Rhomberg
 
1954 At the Order of the Czar
Le Grand-Duc
 
1954 Hungarian Rhapsody
Großherzog
 
1953 Wenn der weiße Flieder wieder blüht
Willy Forster
 
1953 Damenwahl
Herbert Blank
 
1953 Von Liebe reden wir später
Professor Christian Hollmann
 
1952 Am Brunnen vor dem Tore
Roberts Vater
 
1952 Ferien vom Ich
Dr. Hartung
 
1952 Mikosch rückt ein
Oberst von Körömsbös
 
1951 Die Dubarry
Louis Valmont
 
1951 The Heath Is Green
Amtsrichter (as Willi Fritsch)
 
1951 The Veiled Lady
 
1951 Schön muß man sein
Jupp Holunder
 
1950 König für eine Nacht
König Ludwig I von Bayern
 
1950 Mädchen mit Beziehungen
Dr. Kobel
 
1950 The Beautiful Galatea
Marcel Thomas
 
1950 Schatten der Nacht
Ernst Magnus
 
1949 Kätchen für alles
Georg Vorster
 
1949 Derby
Dahlen
 
1949 Zwölf Herzen für Charly
Dr. Wolfgang Amadeus Wagenbichler & Charly
 
1949 Hallo - Sie haben Ihre Frau vergessen
Dr. Hans Ollendorf
 
1948 Finale
Dr. Thomas Benninghoff
 
1946 Die Fledermaus
Warden Frank
 
1945 Life Goes On
Axel Aressen
 
1945 Die tolle Susanne
 
1944 Junge Adler
Roth
 
1943 Die Gattin
Walter Baumann
 
1943 Der kleine Grenzverkehr
Georg Rentmeister
 
1943 Liebesgeschichten
Werner Lüdtke
 
1942 Geliebte Welt
Generaldirektor Dr. Blohm
 
1942 Anschlag auf Baku
Hans Romberg, Deutscher Offizier
 
1942 Vienna Blood
Graf Georg Wolkersheim
 
1941 Women Are Better Diplomats
Rittmeister von Karstein
 
1941 Leichte Muse
Pe Pe Müller
 
1941 Dreimal Hochzeit
Fürst Alexander Woronin
 
1941 Das leichte Mädchen
Dietz Frobelius
 
1940 Die keusche Geliebte
Pierre Dugard, Plantagenbesitzer
 
1940 Die unvollkommene Liebe
Thomas Holk
 
1939 Die Geliebte
Oberleutnant von Warp
 
1939 Woman at the Wheel
Paul Banky
 
1938 Am seidenen Faden
Richard Hellwerth
 
1938 The Girl of Last Night
Stanley Stalton
 
1938 Between the Parents
Dr. Hans Ravenborg, Arzt
 
1938 A Prussian Love Story
Prinz Wilhelm von Preußen - sein Sohn
 
1937 Gewitterflug zu Claudia
Droste - Flugkapitän
 
1937 Strife Over the Boy Jo
Hans Eckardt - Leontines Bruder
 
1937 Seven Slaps
William Tenson MacPhab
 
1937 Menschen ohne Vaterland
Obeerleutnant Maltzach
 
1936 Glückskinder
Gil Taylor
 
1936 Boccaccio
Petruccicio - Schreiber am Stadtgericht
 
1935 Schwarze Rosen
Erkki Collin
 
1935 Amphitryon
Jupiter / Amphitryon
 
1934 Prinzessin Turandot
Kalaf, the bird-dealer
 
1934 Die Insel
Raak, Handelsattaché
 
1934 Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz
Graf Marenzi d. Jüngere
 
1933 Des jungen Dessauers große Liebe
Fürst Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau
 
1933 The Battle of the Walzes
Pauker Gustl
 
1933 Cairo Season
Tobby Blackwell, Sohn
 
1932 I by Day, You by Night
Hans
 
1932 A Blonde's Dream
Willy I
 
1932 Ein toller Einfall
Paul Lüders
 
1932 The Cheeky Devil
Junge mann
 
1931/I Ronny
Prince of Perusa
 
1931 Der Kongreß tanzt
Czar Alexander of Russia (as Willi Fritsch)
 
1931 In the Employ of the Secret Service
Thomas Higgins
 
1931 Her Grace Commands
Leutnant Karl von Conradi
 
1930 Murder for Sale
Jacques Durand
 
1930 Three Good Friends
Willy Helbing
 
1930 Hocuspocus
Peter Bille
 
1930 Liebeswalzer
Bobby Fould
 
1929 Melody of the Heart
János Garas
 
1929 By Rocket to the Moon
Wolf Helius
 
1929 Her Skeleton in the Closet
Erik Termeulen
 
1928 Ungarische Rhapsodie
Franz Leutnant Graf v. Turoczy
 
1928 Docks of Hamburg
Klaus Brandt
 
1928 Der Tanzstudent
Hans Amberg (Tanzstudent)
 
1928 Spies
No. 326 (Det. Donald Tremaine, English version)
 
1928 Schuldig
Rechtsanwalt Frank Peters
 
1927 Die Frau im Schrank
Dr. Richard Marchal
 
1927 Der letzte Walzer
Graf Dimitri Sarrasow, Hauptmann
 
1927 Die selige Exzellenz
Fürst Ernst Albrecht
 
1926 A Sister of Six
Count Horkay
 
1926 The Innocent Susanne
René Boislurette
 
1926 Die Boxerbraut
Fritz Spitz
 
1926 Der Prinz und die Tänzerin
 
1926 Die Fahrt ins Abenteuer
Adam Bondy, Bruder von Ossi
 
1925 Das Mädchen mit der Protektion
Neffe Charles
 
1925 The Waltz Dream
Nicholas Count Preyn
 
1925 Dance Fever
Max de Sillery
 
1925 Der Farmer aus Texas
Akke
 
1925 Blitzzug der Liebe
Charley
 
1924 Mother and Child
Sein Neffe Werner
 
1924 Guillotine
 
1923 Seine Frau, die Unbekannte
Wilbur Crawford
 
1923 Hallig Hooge
Tetze Tetens
 
1922 Der blinde Passagier
 
1922 Der Heiratsschwindler
Kurt Asten
 
1921 Razzia
Heinrich
 
1921 Miss Venus
 
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2009 Bititsch (short) (performer: "Lili Marlene")
 
2009 Inglourious Basterds (performer: "ICH WOLLT ICH WAER EIN HUHN")
 
2001 Tango Cabaret (performer: "Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein")
 
1964 I Learned It from Father (performer: "Das hab ich von Papa gelernt", "Liebling, mein Herz läßt Dich grüßen")
 
1937 Seven Slaps (performer: "Ich tanze mit Dir in den Himmel hinein")
 
1933 Cairo Season (performer: "Saison in Kairo", "Mir ist so, ich weiss nicht wie")
 
1932 I by Day, You by Night (performer: "Wenn ich Sonntags in mein Kino geh'...", "Wenn du nicht kommst, dann haben die Rosen umsonst geblüht")
 
1931 Her Grace Commands (performer: "Du hast mir heimlich die Liebe ins Haus gebracht", "Frag' nicht wie, frag' nicht wo")
 
1930 Murder for Sale (performer: "Fidschi")
 
1930 Three Good Friends (performer: "Ein Freund, ein guter Freund", "Lieber Herr Gerichtsvollzieher", "Liebling, mein Herz läßt Dich grüßen")
 
1929 Melody of the Heart (performer: "Bin kein Hauptmann, bin kein grosses Tier")
 
1929 By Rocket to the Moon (performer: "Heimlich singt für uns die Liebe")
 
Show ShowSelf (4 titles)
1971 Filmgeschichte(n) aus Österreich (TV series)
Himself
– 1938 - 1945 - Der Wiener Film im Dritten Reich (1971) … Himself (also archive footage)
 
1967 Andere Zeiten - andere Sitten (TV movie)
Himself
 
1953 Fernsehen im Sportpalast (TV movie)
Himself
 
1948 Film Without a Name
Himself (Actor)
 
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2004 Fritz Lang: Circle of Destiny (TV documentary)
No. 326 (in "Spione")/Wolf Helius (in "Frau im Mond") (uncredited)
 
1995 Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1994 Kleiner Mann ganz groß (TV documentary)
(uncredited)
 
1958 It Only Happened Once
Himself, Willy Fritsch
 
1950 Wonderful Times (documentary)
Himself
 
1948 Leckerbissen
Himself - filmszenen
 
1929 Rund um die Liebe
 
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Alternate Names:

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Trivia:

German matinée idol of the 1930's, a cheerful singing and dancing star of musical comedies and operettas. Fritsch was trained at the Max Reinhardt School in Berlin and acted on screen from the early 1920's. He successfully made the transition to sound and was then popularly paired with the actress and dancer Lillian Harvey in several films. After the war, he eased into character roles. See more »

Star Sign:

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