Anecdotes

Commonly identified as a homosexual he ran the risk to be imprisoned by the Nazi authorities like his friend Kurt von Ruffin, nevertheless he performed in numerous entertainment films of Nazi cinema.

He was able to continue his career in the sound film era by his unmistakable rasping voice, which perfectly added to his physiognomy, having a standing order for scoundrels and charlatan roles.

Hubert von Meyerinck became a popular actor who normally played support roles. But he soon became a familiar face for the audience yet.

In the post-war time he established that type for which he still is well-known in the first place. His senile aristocrats and idiotic military heads soon belonged the a permanent inventory of German entertainment movies.

After World War II, Meyerinck remained one of the busiest film actors in West German cinema.

His roles were normally those of well-groomed appearing gentlemen and aristocrats, at the beginning as figures in a dubious light, later more and more interpreted in a funny way till to one-dimensional caricatures.

The actor Hubert von Meyerinck is especially well-known as a bald headed, always nervous and over-motivated active muddle head who knew how to caricature high-ranked militarists and other important personalities in his unique way.

From 1920 on wards, Meyerinck starred as a silent film actor, whereby he developed a distinctive appearance with his high forehead and mustache, often emphasizing his hypnotic expression by sporting a monocle.

His engagement in the 60's was still very high. Beside comedies he also played in the five Edgar-Wallace filmings where he succeeded actor Siegfried Schürenberg as Chief of Scotland Yard.

He knew how to irritate his environment with his hurried speech and gestures. He impersonated this kind of parts so often that the actor and man Hubert von Meyerinck was almost personified with these figures.

He appeared regularly as a movie actor only from 1926 and this in such a continuity which only a few were able to show.

Hubert von Meyerinck acted till to his death from heart failure in Hamburg. He is buried in the Schladen cemetery near Braunschweig.

Uncle of Gudrun Genest.

After a short mission during World War I he was released from the military service because of a pulmonary suffering. As a result the young Hubert von Meyerinck attended a acting school in Berlin and made his theater debut in 1917.

Hubert von Meyerinck was born into a military oriented family. His grandfather was a commanding general, his father was in the rank of a captain.