Alwin Neuß
Carl Alwin Heinrich Neuß (17 June 1879 – 30 October 1935) was a German film director and actor, noted for playing Sherlock Holmes in a series of silent films during the 1910s. He also played the dual role of Jekyll and Hyde in the 1910 Danish silent film version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Alwin Neuß
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- Name
- Alwin Neuß
- Born
- 17 June 1879
- Birthplace
- Cologne, German Empire
- Birth Name
- Carl Alwin Heinrich Neuß
- Died
- 30 October 1935
- Place of death
- Berlin, Nazi Germany
- Occupation
- Actor, film director
- Spouse
- Anna Klara Warczok
- Nationality
- Germany
- Languages
- German
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Alwin Neuß, acteur et metteur en scène, naquit le 17 juin 1879 à Köln-Deutz et mourut le 30 octobre 1935 à Berlin.
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Hyde, directed by August Blom. He played Jekyll and Hyde again in the 1914 German silent film Ein Seltsamer Fall (translation: A Strange Case), scripted by Richard Oswald.
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• Name — Alwin Neuß • Born — 17 June 1879 • Birthplace — Cologne, German Empire • Birth Name — Carl Alwin Heinrich Neuß • Died — 30 October 1935 • Place of death — Berlin, Nazi Germany • Other Names — Alwin Neuss • Occupation — Actor, film director • Years Active — 1906–1930 • Spouse — Anna Klara Warczok
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• Sherlock Holmes (1908) • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Danish silent film, 1910) • Hamlet (1911) • The Flight (1912) • Ein Seltsamer Fall (1914) a German film adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde • Detektiv Braun (1914) • Der Hund von Baskerville/ Hound of the Baskervilles (1914) German film directed by Rudolph Meinert • The Hound of the Baskervilles (1915) rival German film directed by Richard Oswald • Dynamite (1916) • The Cowboy (1918) • The Man From Havelock (1917) • Clown Charly (1918) • Bettler GmbH (1919) • Revenge Is Mine (1919) • The Diadem of the Czarina (1922) • By Order of Pompadour (1924) • Strong Winds (1924) • Two and a Lady (1926) • Street Acquaintances (1929) • The Old Life (1930) • Dance Into Happiness (1930)
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- 1.Landesarchiv Berlin, Sterberegister Standesamt Berlin XII a, Nr. 1615/1935 (kostenpflichtig abrufbar auf Ancestry.com); IMDb, CineGraph – Lexikon zum deutschsprachigen Film und Filmportal.de nennen als Sterbedatum den 30. Oktober.
- 2.Gerhard Lamprecht. Deutsche Stummfilme 1915–1916. 1969.
- 3.Einträge im Münchener Handelsregister am 24. November 1920 und 9. Februar 1921
- 4.Einträge im Münchener Handelsregister am 29. Januar 1921 und 19. Juni 1926
- 5.Ernst Klee: Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5, S. 431.
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