Biography

Served on the Eastern Front from 1914-1916 in World War I..

Athletic character actor, who began his career as a teenage acrobat performing on the trapeze as a member of the Hans-Hansen trio. For a series of one-reel slapstick comedies, beginning in 1911 (even earlier according to some sources), he created the comic characters 'Bumke' and 'Luny'. Dammann also performed most of his own stunts. Between 1917 and 1925, he was active as actor, writer and director for his own production company. After his popularity as a comedian waned, he embarked on a new career as a character actor and appeared in feature films as anything from ordinary proletarians, to crooks and police officers for the next two decades.

Gerhard Dammann founded his own company in 1917 he became the man at all fronts. He played, directed, wrote scripts as well as produced movies and carried out the stunts. His movies were very successful.

The actor Gerhard Dammann belonged to the pioneers of film comedians who already had an impressive career behind himself when the film business still was in its infancy.

Gerhard Dammann made his film debut about 1907, first cinematically works can be proved in 1911 where he appeared among others in "Marionetten" (1911), "Der verräterische Tintenfleck" (1911) and "Karl der Grosse" (1911).