Ernst Deutsch aka Ernest Dorian (16 September 1890 in Prague

Prague

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 – 22 March 1969 in Berlin

Berlin

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) was an Austria

Austria

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n actor. In 1916 he played the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclever

Walter Hasenclever

Walter Hasenclever was a German Expressionist poet and playwright.-Biography:...

's Expressionist play The Son

The Son

The Son is a five-act Expressionist play by the German playwright Walter Hasenclever. It was the first self-proclaimed, full-length Expressionist play to be produced, though its dramatic structure is more or less realistic. It takes as its subject the conflict between the generations and a...

in Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

 to great acclaim. He is most widely known to English-speaking audiences for his role as 'Baron' Kurtz in the 1949 film noir

Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the early 1940s to the late 1950s...

, The Third Man

The Third Man

The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Many critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and unique musical score...

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Awards

• He won the Volpi Cup
  Volpi Cup
  The Volpi Cups are the principal awards given to actors at the Venice Film Festival. Formal acting awards were introduced in the second festival . Initially they were called Great Gold Medals of the National Fascist Association for Entertainment. The name Volpi Cup was introduced the following year...
  
   for best actor at the 1948 Venice Film Festival
  Venice Film Festival
  The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...
  
   for his part in Der Prozess
  The Trial (1948 film)
  The Trial is a 1948 Austrian drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. At the 1948 Venice Film Festival, Pabst won the Award for Best Director; Ernst Deutsch won the award for Best Actor and the Volpi Cup. The story is based on the events of the Tiszaeszlár blood libel.-Cast:* Ewald Balser – Dr....
  
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Honours

• In 1962, he became "Kammerschauspieler" in Wien.
• In 1973, the largest privately funded theater in Hamburg
  Hamburg
  -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
  
   was named after him.

Filmography

• 1916 Die Rache der Toten
• 1917 Die zweite Frau
• 1918 Apokalypse
• 1919 Irrungen
• 1919 Die Tochter des Henkers
• 1919 Aladdin und die Wunderlampe
• 1919 Das Kloster von Sendomir
• 1919 Die Frau im Käfig
• 1919 Die Geisha und der Samurai
• 1919 Blondes Gift
• 1919 Der Galeerensträfling (2 parts)
• 1919 Fluch der Vergangenheit
• 1919 Vom Schicksal erdrosselt
• 1919 Monica Vogelsang
• 1920 Der gelbe Tod (2 parts)
• 1920 Erpreßt
• 1920 Ferreol
• 1920 Fiebernächte
• 1920 Gerechtigkeit
• 1920 Haß
• 1920 Das Frauenhaus von Brescia
• 1920 Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam The Golem: How He Came Into the World
  The Golem: How He Came Into the World
  The Golem: How He Came Into the World is a 1920 silent horror film by Paul Wegener. It was directed by Carl Boese and Wegener, written by Wegener and Henrik Galeen, and starred Wegener as the golem. The script was adapted from the 1915 novel The Golem by Gustav Meyrink...
  
  
• 1920 Die Jagd nach dem Tode (2. Teil: Die verbotene Stadt)
• 1920 Judith Trachtenberg
• 1920 Lady Godiva
• 1920 Von morgens bis mitternachts
• 1921 Hannerl und ihre Liebhaber
• 1921 Brennendes Land
• 1921 Die Dame und der Landstreicher
• 1922 Der alte Gospodar
• 1922 Herzog Ferrantes Ende
• 1922 Sein ist das Gericht
• 1922 Der Kampf ums Ich
• 1922 Liebe kann man nicht kaufen
• 1923 Die Pagode
• 1923 Das brennende Geheimnis
• 1923 Das alte Gesetz
• 1924 Soll und Haben
• 1926 Dagfin
• 1927 Das Frauenhaus von Rio
• 1927 Zwei unterm Himmelszelt
• 1927 Artisten
• 1936 The Marriage of Corbal
• 1939 Nurse Edith Cavell
• 1940 The Man I Married
• 1941 So Ends Our Night
• 1942 The Prisoner of Japan
• 1942 Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen
• 1942 Reunion in France
  Reunion in France
  Reunion in France is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford, Phillip Dorn, and John Wayne in a story about a woman who, suspecting her well-heeled lover has Nazi connections, aids a downed American flyer. The screenplay by Jan Lustig, Marvin Borowsky and Marc Connelly was based...
  
  
• 1943 The Moon Is Down
• 1943 Nightplane from Chungking
• 1945 Isle of the Dead
  Isle of the Dead (film)
  Isle of the Dead is one of producer Val Lewton's horror films made for RKO Radio Pictures. The movie had a script inspired by the painting Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin, which appears behind the title credits, though the film was originally titled "Camilla" during production...
  
  
• 1948 Der Prozeß
  The Trial (1948 film)
  The Trial is a 1948 Austrian drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. At the 1948 Venice Film Festival, Pabst won the Award for Best Director; Ernst Deutsch won the award for Best Actor and the Volpi Cup. The story is based on the events of the Tiszaeszlár blood libel.-Cast:* Ewald Balser – Dr....
  
  
• 1949 The Third Man
  The Third Man
  The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Many critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography, performances, and unique musical score...
  
  
• 1951 K - Das Haus des Schweigens
• 1952: Wenn abends die Heide träumt
• 1955 Nathan der Weise (TV)
• 1958 Jedermann (TV)
• 1958 Sebastian Kneipp - Ein großes Leben / Sebastian Kneipp - Der Wasserdoktor
• 1961 Ein Mädchen vom Lande (TV)
• 1962 Vor Sonnenuntergang (TV)
• 1963 In der Strafkolonie (TV)
• 1966 Der Fall Bohr (TV)

Sources

• German language Wikipedia: Ernst Deutsch. Retrieved 21 October 2005.
• Schürer, Ernst. 1997. Introduction. German Expressionist Plays. The German Library ser. vol. 66. New York: Continuum. ISBN 978-0826409508.

External links

• Photographs of Ernst Deutsch