Robert Garrison(1872-1930)

Actor

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Based on Herman Bang's 1902 novel of the same name, Dreyer's film is a fascinating fin-de-siècle study of a "decadent" elderly artist (Benjamin Christensen) driven to despair by his relationship with his young protégé and former model, Michael (Walter Slezak). With suffocatingly sumptuous production design by renowned architect Hugo Häring (his only film work), this Kammerspiel, or "intimate theatre", foreshadows Dreyer's magnificent final film Gertrud, by forty years with its "Now I may die content, for I have seen great love" epigraph. Michael was scripted by Dreyer with Fritz Lang's wife, Thea von Harbou (Metropolis, M, etc). It stars the director Benjamin Christensen (Häxan); Walter Slezak (Hitchcock's Lifeboat); Nora Gregor (Renoir's The Rules of the Game); Mady Christians (Ophüls' Letter from an Unknown Woman); and Karl Freund (who also shot Metropolis) in his only ever appearance as an actor. Freund lensed most of Michael too, but left to work on Murnau's The Last Laugh, and Rudolph Maté took over. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Carl Th. Dreyer's Michael for the first time ever on Blu-ray, from a new 2K restoration.

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Michael (1924)

Robert Garrison was born on 18 July 1872 in Strassburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for Le chien de Baskerville (1929), Michael (1924) and Le navire des hommes perdus (1929). He died on 5 January 1930 in Berlin, Germany.

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Known for

Le chien de Baskerville (1929)

Le chien de Baskerville

6.4

Falkland

1929

Michael (1924)

7.1

Kunstkritiker Charles Switt

1924

Le navire des hommes perdus (1929)

Le navire des hommes perdus

6.6

Der Vermieter - The Landlord

1929

Eduard Rothauser in Les deshérités de la vie (1925)

Les deshérités de la vie

7.0

Flickschneider

1925

Credits

Actor

Rivalen im Weltrekord
- Ein Sternberg
- 1930
Polizeispionin 77
- Kriminalassistent Wilhelm
- 1930
Femme chassee
- 1930
Die Frau ohne Nerven
6.2
- 1930
Engel im Séparée
- 1929
Ich hab mein Herz im Autobus verloren
- 1929
Le navire des hommes perdus
6.6
- Der Vermieter - The Landlord
- 1929
Le chien de Baskerville
6.4
- Falkland
- 1929
Madame im Strandbad
- Jonathan Goldfisch
- 1929
Le reporteur diabolique
6.8
- Jonas
- 1929
Ja, ja, die Frauen sind meine schwache Seite
- Bunk, Bingens Kompagnon
- 1929
Parjure
- 1929
Das närrische Glück
- Filmdirektor
- 1929
Der Zigeunerprimas
- Bankier Rothschild
- 1929
Heut' war ich bei der Frieda
- M. Heuser
- 1928

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Carl Th. Dreyer's MICHAEL (Masters of Cinema) New & Exclusive Trailer

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Personal details

Born
- July 18, 1872
- Strassburg, Germany
Died
- January 5, 1930
- Berlin, Germany

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Trivia
At the age of only 58 he died as a consequence of meat poisoning.

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January 5, 1930
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57 years old
Where did Robert Garrison die?
Berlin, Germany
When was Robert Garrison born?
July 18, 1872
Where was Robert Garrison born?
Strassburg, Germany

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