Biography
Reinhold Schünzel (7 November 1888 – 11 November 1954) was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite his ancestry, Schünzel was allowed by the Nazis to continue making films for several years until he left in 1937 to live abroad.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Victor/Victoria
1995
Original Film Writer
Out-of-work singer Victoria Grant meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a club in 1920s Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a fe...

Victor/Victoria
1982
Original Film Writer
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Viktor und Viktoria
1957
Screenplay
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discover...
Eine Liebesgeschichte
1954
as Schlumberger

Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau
1954
as Konsul Rittinghaus

Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline
1954
as Konsul Rittinghaus

The Vicious Circle
1948
as Baron Arady
In Hungary, a rich baron discovers that there are extensive oil deposits underneath nearby properties owned by villagers. He manages to convince all t...

Berlin Express
1948
as Walther
In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.

Golden Earrings
1947
as Otto Krosigk
A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.

Notorious
1946
as Dr. Anderson
In order to help bring Nazis to justice, U.S. government agent T.R. Devlin recruits Alicia Huberman, the American daughter of a convicted German war c...

Dragonwyck
1946
as Count De Grenier (uncredited)
For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually...

The Man in Half Moon Street
1945
as Dr. Kurt van Bruecken
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.

The Hitler Gang
1944
as Gen. Ludendorff
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time politico to dictator of Germany.

Hostages
1943
as Kurt Daluege
After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and...

First Comes Courage
1943
as Col. Kurt von Elser
Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies la...

Hangmen Also Die!
1943
as Gestapo Insp. Ritter
During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprote...

New Wine
1941
Director
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.

Balalaika
1939
Director
A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

The Ice Follies of 1939
1939
Director
Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home,...

Rich Man, Poor Girl
1938
Director
A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

Land of Love
1937
Director, Writer
The story is one of the classic operetta stories with a young princess destined to marry a king whom her mother tries to enforce while the young woman...

Donogoo Tonka
1936
Director, Writer
Parisians Josette and Pierre are a happy couple, but also a completely broke one. An absurd chain of events leads them to Professor Trouhadec, who is ...

The Girl Irene
1936
Director, Writer
A woman (Lil Dagover) who has lost her husband falls in love again, but is bitterly opposed by her daughters especially the title figure who can't sta...

First a Girl
1935
Story
An aspiring singer quits her menial job and is talked into performing as a female impersonator by her friend. Her drag act makes her famous, which cau...

Les dieux s'amusent
1935
Director
Alternate-language version of Amphitryon (1935).

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds
1935
Director, Writer
Lamenting Thebian women are waiting for the men to come back from war. God Jupiter is attracted to one of them: Alkmene. He goes to earth and tries to...

The English Marriage
1934
Director
Georg Alexander plays Douglas Mavis, the son of a rich English family who falls in love with a Berlin girl (Renate Müller) and marries her. However, h...
La jeune fille d'une nuit
1934
Director

Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz
1934
Director, Writer

Georges et Georgette
1934
Scenario Writer, Director

Victor and Victoria
1933
Director, Writer
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over one night for her sick friend, a small-time female impersonator, and finds unexpected fame when everyone believes t...

Cairo Season
1933
Director
Comedy with an Egyptian backdrop: Businessman Tobby and the Countess Stafanie wish to take all the fun away from their single parents and make them m...
Idylle au Caire
1933
Director

How Shall I Tell My Husband?
1933
Director
The film starts in the fashionable seaside resort on the Baltic, Heringsdorf, where Renate Müller spends a secret weekend away from her husband with h...

The Beautiful Adventure
1932
Director

The Beautiful Adventure
1932
Director, Writer
Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run awa...

Ronny
1931
Director
Ronny is a young designer on her way to the capital of the Ruritanian Kingdom of Perusa with the costumes she has created for the operetta written by ...

Ronny
1931
Director, Writer
Käthe von Nagy plays Ronny, who designs the costumes for the upcoming premiere of an opera written by the young prince of Perusa (Willy Fritsch) and h...

The small gap
1931
Director

The Ball
1931
The daughter of a nouveau riche family, invited to an upper class ball meant to launch her in society, rejects the offer.

The Little Escapade
1931
Director, Writer, Story
A wife believes her husband has been deceiving her and decides to have some fun at his expense. After a bit of mischief, her husband, a lawyer who is ...

Her Grace Commands
1931
as Staatsminister Graf Herlitz
An emancipated Princess, who has just returned home to her court in the Balkans from England, goes in disguise to a servants’ bal and falls in love wi...

The 3 Penny Opera
1931
as Tiger-Brown
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterpr...

1914
1931
as Nikolaus II.
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

Love in the Ring
1930
Director
Phantoms of Happiness
1930
Director, Writer
Kolonne X
1929
as Robert Sandt, Führer der Kolonne X
Kolonne X
1929
Director
Peter, der Matrose
1929
Peter, der Matrose
1929
Director
Aus dem Tagebuch eines Junggesellen
1929
as Franz
Aus dem Tagebuch eines Junggesellen
1929
Writer
Adam und Eva
1928
as Adam Grünau
Adam und Eva
1928
Screenplay
Don Juan in der Mädchenschule
1928
as Dr. Eckehart Bleibtreu
Don Juan in der Mädchenschule
1928
Director
Herkules Maier
1928
as Herkules Maier
Herkules Maier
1928
Screenplay
Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille
1928
as Gustav Mond
Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille
1928
Director

Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
1927
A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others (1919).

Heaven on Earth
1927
as Traugott Bellmann
Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the night life. Although Belmann's stance ...

Heaven on Earth
1927
Producer, Director, Screenplay
Reinhold Schünzel plays the rigid representative Traugott Bellmann, who publicly condemns the low morals of the night life. Although Belmann's stance ...

Hallo Caesar!
1927
as Caesar
Juggler and con-artist Caesar comes to Karlsbad, where he hopes to trick the renowned Vaudeville manager Willard into taking him to America. But when ...

Hallo Caesar!
1927
Producer, Writer, Director
Juggler and con-artist Caesar comes to Karlsbad, where he hopes to trick the renowned Vaudeville manager Willard into taking him to America. But when ...

The Imaginary Baron
1927
as Der Juxbaron
The film follows the comic (mis)adventures of a poor street musician, who is roped into posing as an eccentric nobleman. He and his antics are rapturo...
In der Heimat, da gibt's ein Wiedersehn!
1926
as Gustav Knospe
In der Heimat, da gibt's ein Wiedersehn!
1926
Director
Der dumme August des Zirkus Romanelli
1926
as Der dumme August
Der Stolz der Kompagnie
1926
as Wilhelm

Die Frau für 24 Stunden
1925
Writer, Director

Der Hahn im Korb
1925
as Peter Abendrot

Der Hahn im Korb
1925
Writer
Sündenbabel
1925
as Emil Stiebel

Flight Around the World
1925
as Louis Renard
A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Bres...

Rags and Silk
1925
as Max
At the center of this social satire is the wealthy and bored couple Irene and Erik. When Erik meets Hilde, who comes from a humble background, one eve...
The Salesgirl from the Fashion Store
1925
Windstärke 9
1924
Director
Battle of the Butterflies
1924
Naive 16 year old Rosi paints butterfly pictures and day-dreams of a better world, abhorring the conducts of Else, Laura, Max and and an immoral caval...

All for Money
1923
as Schieber
Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, un...

All for Money
1923
Director
Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, un...
Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen
1923
as Rasmussen
Die drei Marien und der Herr von Marana
1923
Die drei Marien und der Herr von Marana
1923
Director, Writer
Das Liebesnest
1922
as Lothar von Brandt
Bigamie
1922

Lady Hamilton
1921
as Ferdinand IV, König von Neapel
The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.

The Story of a Maid
1921
A young naive country girl moves to Berlin to become a maid for the dubious family of Baron von Birthal.

The Story of a Maid
1921
Director
A young naive country girl moves to Berlin to become a maid for the dubious family of Baron von Birthal.

The Count of Cagliostro
1920
as Alessandro Cagliostro
About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known ...

The Count of Cagliostro
1920
Director
About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known ...
Catherine the Great
1920
as Tsar Peter
The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.
Catherine the Great
1920
Director, Writer
The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.

Moriturus
1920
as Freiherr von Mohrungen
A doctor who cannot figure out what is wrong with his patient refers him to a detective, whom he hopes will be able to discern the cause of his myster...

Die Banditen von Asnières
1920

Drei Nächte
1920
as Anton Wicleff
Der Gefangene - Sklaven des XX. Jahrhunderts
1920
as Commander
Das Mädchen aus der Ackerstraße. 1. Teil
1920
Das Mädchen aus der Ackerstraße. 1. Teil
1920
Director
Maria Magdalene
1920
Maria Magdalene
1920
Director

Figures of the Night
1920
as The secretary
"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwel...

The Dancer Barberina
1920

Lilli
1919
Lillis Ehe
1919
as Dr. Goldmann
Lilli marries Dr. Friese, but when she realizes that he was her mother's lover, tragedy ensues.

Eerie Tales
1919
as Der Teufel / Various Other Roles
A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
Die Pflicht zu leben
1919
Wahnsinn
1919
as Jörges
A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the k...

Madame DuBarry
1919
as Duke of Choiseul
The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

Prostitution II
1919
About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.

Blonde Poison
1919
as Adolf Reiss
Loni is a femme fatale who lives a depraved life with several lovers. She plunges her husband to ruin without any remorse. The film was banned shortl...

The Last Payment
1919
as Jules Lambert
A beautiful woman of the Latin Quarter, marries a rich cattle owner Pedro Maurez from South America to live in peace and happiness. The arrival of you...

Different from the Others
1919
as Franz Bollek
Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the...

Around the World in 80 Days
1919
as Archibald Corsican
Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.

Um Krone und Peitsche
1919
Melodrama with the theme of class difference between a Count and the daughter of a ringmaster. They marry but their environment work against them in a...
Das Mädchen und die Männer
1919

Die Liebschaften der Käthe Keller
1919
Heddas Rache
1919
as Georg
The brothel mother's illegitimate daughter takes revenge by luring her half-siblings into the brothel.

Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
1918
as Kallenbach

Diary of a Lost Woman
1918
as Graf Kasimir Osdorff

Der Weltspiegel
1918

Frühlingsstürme im Herbste des Lebens
1918
as Reinhold
After the death of her father, the young Comtesse von Hagen is taken in by her father's friend, who lives with his cousin and her son. The cousin is u...
The Ballet Girl
1918
as Eduard Stutzig, Lebemann
The new artistic director Dr. Fersen is appointed at the princely court theater in Dillingen. He is not only attractive, but also a bachelor, which de...
Schloss am See
1918
Auf Probe gestellt
1918
as Reichsgraf Adolar von Warowingen
Countess Marlene, a young and impoverished widow, is set to marry an old and wealthy count when she falls for a painter.

Countess Kitchenmaid
1918
as schüchterner Verehrer
Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.

Die Erzkokette
1917
The Latest Star from Vaudeville
1917
Stella Orlanda is a young variety artist who can stand her ground like the next man - and not only on the stage from where as a boxer she calls out th...
Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil
1916
as Engelbert Fox
Every Friday the 13th, a member of the Eulenstein family dies. The son of the most recent victim hires a detective to investigate.
Der chinesische Götze. Das unheimliche Haus. 3. Teil
1916
as Ralph Robin
All is not well in the Mollheim home. The elder Mollheim decides to marry off his daughter with an unusually large dowry, in exchange for a rare Chine...

Donogoo
N/A
Director