Karl Platen(1877-1952)

Actor
Cinematographer

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Les Trois Lumières (1921)

Karl Platen was born on 6 March 1877 in Halle, Germany. He was an actor and cinematographer, known for M le maudit (1931), La femme sur la lune (1929) and Anne de Boleyn (1920). He died on 4 July 1952 in Weimar, German Democratic Republic.

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Known for

M le maudit (1931)

8.3

Damowitz

1931

La femme sur la lune (1929)

La femme sur la lune

7.2

Der Mann am Mikrophon(as Platen)

1929

Emil Jannings and Henny Porten in Anne de Boleyn (1920)

6.5

Physician

1920

Georg Alexander, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Brigitte Helm, and Sybille Schmitz in Un mari idéal (1935)

6.4

Phips, Diener bei Goring

1935

Credits

Actor

Der Posaunist
6.6
- Franz Bittrich, 1. Posaunist
- 1949
Freies Land
5.7
- 1946
Der Mann im Sattel
6.5
- Gastwirt
- 1945
Das schwarze Schaf
5.5
- 1944
Ce diable de garçon
7.7
- Minor Role (uncredited)
- 1944
Kollege kommt gleich
7.8
- Ein bei der Damenwahl erwählter Tänzer
- 1943
Lumière dans la nuit
7.3
- Michael's servant
- 1943
Der ewige Klang
6.9
- Diener
- 1943
Du gehörst zu mir
5.6
- 1943
Meine Frau Teresa
6.9
- 1942
Diesel
6.6
- Der Büroangestellte im Vorraum bei Krupp
- 1942
Rembrandt
5.1
- 1942
La danse avec l'empereur
6.6
- 1941
Sonntagskinder
- Oberkellner Max
- 1941
Frau Luna
7.0
- Regisseur am Apollo-Theater (uncredited)
- 1941

Cinematographer

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Personal details

Alternative names
- C. Platen
Born
- March 6, 1877
- Halle, Germany
Died
- July 4, 1952
- Weimar, German Democratic Republic(undisclosed)

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Trivia
Incisive German character actor. On stage from 1896, and from 1906 to 1944 based at various theatres in Berlin. In films from early silents, immensely busy throughout the 1920's, 30's and 40's, often in prestige pictures by renowned directors, including Joe May, Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang.

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