Trivia

Kurt von Ruffin took only part in few more movies after the war, because he found his main activity still at the theater.

From 1927 he got first engagements at the opera of Magdeburg, later followed Mainz and Nuremberg.

With the engagement to the Metropoltheater in Berlin for different operettas he began to intensify his acting activity. He made his film debut with operetta movies like "Die Faschingsfee" (1931) and "Walzerparadies" (1931).

The actor Kurt von Ruffin began a musical career as a singer and studied on recommendation of Arturo Toscanini by Giuseppe Borgih in Mailand.

He only appeared on stages from 1941, two years later he was infiltrated into the movie "Ich vertraue dir meine Frau an" (1943).

When Kurt von Ruffin got the role of a gangster and boxer in Harry Piel's movie "Bobby geht los" (31) - so narrated an anecdote - he took boxing lessons by the earlier heavyweight champion Hans Breitensträter. In the boxing scene with Harry Piel he knocked him out really.

After the movie "Schwarzwaldmädel" (1933) he wasn't able to work for an other movie for nine months because he was denounced of homosexuality. He had to serve an imprisonment in the KZ Lichtenburg.