Reinhold Schünzel

Reinhold Schünzel

1888-11-07 Sankt Pauli, Hamburg, Germany 131 Credits

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.

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Victor/Victoria

Victor/Victoria

1995

Original Film Writer

6.8
Writing

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

Victor/Victoria

1982

Original Film Writer

7.3
Writing

A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.

Viktor und Viktoria

Viktor und Viktoria

1957

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

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

9.0
Acting
Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau

Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau

1954

as Konsul Rittinghaus

Acting
Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline

Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline

1954

as Konsul Rittinghaus

7.0
Acting
The Vicious Circle

The Vicious Circle

1948

as Baron Arady

5.5
Acting

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

Berlin Express

1948

as Walther

6.2
Acting

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

Golden Earrings

1947

as Otto Krosigk

5.8
Acting

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.

Notorious

Notorious

1946

as Dr. Anderson

7.7
Acting

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

Dragonwyck

1946

as Count De Grenier (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

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

The Man in Half Moon Street

1945

as Dr. Kurt van Bruecken

5.4
Acting

A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.

The Hitler Gang

The Hitler Gang

1944

as Gen. Ludendorff

6.0
Acting

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

Hostages

1943

as Kurt Daluege

6.0
Acting

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

First Comes Courage

1943

as Col. Kurt von Elser

6.6
Acting

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!

Hangmen Also Die!

1943

as Gestapo Insp. Ritter

6.9
Acting

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprote...

New Wine

New Wine

1941

Director

Directing

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

Balalaika

Balalaika

1939

Director

4.4
Directing

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

The Ice Follies of 1939

The Ice Follies of 1939

1939

Director

5.6
Directing

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

Rich Man, Poor Girl

1938

Director

5.9
Directing

A millionaire courts a working-class woman.

Land of Love

Land of Love

1937

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing

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

Donogoo Tonka

1936

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

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

The Girl Irene

1936

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

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

First a Girl

1935

Story

6.3
Writing

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

Les dieux s'amusent

1935

Director

Directing

Alternate-language version of Amphitryon (1935).

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds

Amphitryon: Happiness from the Clouds

1935

Director, Writer

7.2
Directing Writing

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

The English Marriage

1934

Director

6.8
Directing

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

Directing
Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz

Die Töchter ihrer Exzellenz

1934

Director, Writer

4.0
Directing Writing
Georges et Georgette

Georges et Georgette

1934

Scenario Writer, Director

Writing Directing
Victor and Victoria

Victor and Victoria

1933

Director, Writer

6.8
Directing Writing

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

Cairo Season

1933

Director

Directing

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

Directing
How Shall I Tell My Husband?

How Shall I Tell My Husband?

1933

Director

5.0
Directing

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

The Beautiful Adventure

1932

Director

Directing
The Beautiful Adventure

The Beautiful Adventure

1932

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

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

Ronny

1931

Director

Directing

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

Ronny

1931

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing

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

The small gap

1931

Director

Directing
The Ball

The Ball

1931

Acting

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

The Little Escapade

1931

Director, Writer, Story

Directing Writing

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

Her Grace Commands

1931

as Staatsminister Graf Herlitz

5.0
Acting

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

The 3 Penny Opera

1931

as Tiger-Brown

7.1
Acting

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

1914

1931

as Nikolaus II.

5.0
Acting

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

Love in the Ring

1930

Director

5.7
Directing

Phantoms of Happiness

1930

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Kolonne X

1929

as Robert Sandt, Führer der Kolonne X

Acting

Kolonne X

1929

Director

Directing

Peter, der Matrose

1929

Acting

Peter, der Matrose

1929

Director

Directing

Aus dem Tagebuch eines Junggesellen

1929

as Franz

Acting

Aus dem Tagebuch eines Junggesellen

1929

Writer

Writing

Adam und Eva

1928

as Adam Grünau

Acting

Adam und Eva

1928

Screenplay

Writing

Don Juan in der Mädchenschule

1928

as Dr. Eckehart Bleibtreu

Acting

Don Juan in der Mädchenschule

1928

Director

Directing

Herkules Maier

1928

as Herkules Maier

Acting

Herkules Maier

1928

Screenplay

Writing

Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille

1928

as Gustav Mond

Acting

Gustav Mond, Du gehst so stille

1928

Director

Directing
Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!

Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!

1927

5.4
Acting

A documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the Others (1919).

Heaven on Earth

Heaven on Earth

1927

as Traugott Bellmann

Acting

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

Heaven on Earth

1927

Producer, Director, Screenplay

Producing Directing Writing

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

Hallo Caesar!

Hallo Caesar!

1927

as Caesar

6.5
Acting

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!

Hallo Caesar!

1927

Producer, Writer, Director

6.5
Producing Writing Directing

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

The Imaginary Baron

1927

as Der Juxbaron

Acting

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

Acting

In der Heimat, da gibt's ein Wiedersehn!

1926

Director

Directing

Der dumme August des Zirkus Romanelli

1926

as Der dumme August

Acting

Der Stolz der Kompagnie

1926

as Wilhelm

Acting
Die Frau für 24 Stunden

Die Frau für 24 Stunden

1925

Writer, Director

Writing Directing
Der Hahn im Korb

Der Hahn im Korb

1925

as Peter Abendrot

Acting
Der Hahn im Korb

Der Hahn im Korb

1925

Writer

Writing

Sündenbabel

1925

as Emil Stiebel

Acting
Flight Around the World

Flight Around the World

1925

as Louis Renard

5.3
Acting

A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Bres...

Rags and Silk

Rags and Silk

1925

as Max

Acting

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

Acting

Windstärke 9

1924

Director

Directing

Battle of the Butterflies

1924

Acting

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

All for Money

1923

as Schieber

Acting

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

All for Money

1923

Director

Directing

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

Acting

Die drei Marien und der Herr von Marana

1923

Acting

Die drei Marien und der Herr von Marana

1923

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

Das Liebesnest

1922

as Lothar von Brandt

Acting

Bigamie

1922

Acting
Lady Hamilton

Lady Hamilton

1921

as Ferdinand IV, König von Neapel

5.8
Acting

The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.

The Story of a Maid

The Story of a Maid

1921

Acting

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

The Story of a Maid

1921

Director

Directing

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

The Count of Cagliostro

The Count of Cagliostro

1920

as Alessandro Cagliostro

Acting

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

The Count of Cagliostro

1920

Director

Directing

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

Acting

The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.

Catherine the Great

1920

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.

Moriturus

Moriturus

1920

as Freiherr von Mohrungen

Acting

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

Die Banditen von Asnières

1920

Acting
Drei Nächte

Drei Nächte

1920

as Anton Wicleff

Acting

Der Gefangene - Sklaven des XX. Jahrhunderts

1920

as Commander

Acting

Das Mädchen aus der Ackerstraße. 1. Teil

1920

Acting

Das Mädchen aus der Ackerstraße. 1. Teil

1920

Director

Directing

Maria Magdalene

1920

Acting

Maria Magdalene

1920

Director

Directing
Figures of the Night

Figures of the Night

1920

as The secretary

Acting

"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

The Dancer Barberina

1920

0.5
Acting
Lilli

Lilli

1919

Acting

Lillis Ehe

1919

as Dr. Goldmann

Acting

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

Eerie Tales

Eerie Tales

1919

as Der Teufel / Various Other Roles

5.5
Acting

A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.

Die Pflicht zu leben

1919

2.0
Acting

Wahnsinn

1919

as Jörges

Acting

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

Madame DuBarry

1919

as Duke of Choiseul

6.4
Acting

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

Prostitution II

1919

Acting

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

Blonde Poison

Blonde Poison

1919

as Adolf Reiss

Acting

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

The Last Payment

1919

as Jules Lambert

Acting

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

Different from the Others

1919

as Franz Bollek

7.0
Acting

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

Around the World in 80 Days

1919

as Archibald Corsican

5.5
Acting

Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.

Um Krone und Peitsche

Um Krone und Peitsche

1919

6.0
Acting

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

Acting
Die Liebschaften der Käthe Keller

Die Liebschaften der Käthe Keller

1919

Acting

Heddas Rache

1919

as Georg

Acting

The brothel mother's illegitimate daughter takes revenge by luring her half-siblings into the brothel.

Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter

Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter

1918

as Kallenbach

Acting
Diary of a Lost Woman

Diary of a Lost Woman

1918

as Graf Kasimir Osdorff

Acting
Der Weltspiegel

Der Weltspiegel

1918

Acting
Frühlingsstürme im Herbste des Lebens

Frühlingsstürme im Herbste des Lebens

1918

as Reinhold

Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

Auf Probe gestellt

1918

as Reichsgraf Adolar von Warowingen

Acting

Countess Marlene, a young and impoverished widow, is set to marry an old and wealthy count when she falls for a painter.

Countess Kitchenmaid

Countess Kitchenmaid

1918

as schüchterner Verehrer

Acting

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

Die Erzkokette

Die Erzkokette

1917

Acting

The Latest Star from Vaudeville

1917

Acting

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

Acting

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

Acting

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

Donogoo

N/A

Director

Directing