Otto Gebühr(1877-1954)

Actor
Producer

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Otto Gebühr

Otto Gebühr was born on 29 May 1877 in Kettwig, Essen, Rhine Province, Prussia [now Northrhine-Westphalia], Germany. He was an actor and producer, known for Le grand roi (1942), Fridericus (1937) and Die Mühle von Sanssouci (1926). He was married to Doris Krüger and Cornelia Bertha Julius. He died on 14 March 1954 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.

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Otto Gebühr in Le grand roi (1942)

6.9

King Frederick II

1942

Otto Gebühr, Erich Kröhnke, Johannes Meyer, Marc Roland, Walter von Molo, and Theo Matejko in Fridericus (1937)

6.0

Friedrich II., König von Preußen

1937

Die Mühle von Sanssouci

Friedrich der Große

1926

Alfred Otto Boettcher in Das schöne Fräulein Schragg (1937)

Das schöne Fräulein Schragg

7.3

Friedrich II.

1937

Credits

Actor

Sauerbruch - Das war mein Leben
6.5
- Faktotum
- 1954
La Porteuse de fleurs
6.0
- Jakob
- 1954
Der Mann meines Lebens
5.6
- Professor Kühn
- 1954
Meines Vaters Pferde, 2. Teil: Seine dritte Frau
6.9
- Blankenbohm
- 1954
Prisonnière du Maharadjah
4.7
- Dr. Kuroma
- 1954
Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline
6.7
- Blankenbohm
- 1954
Vati macht Dummheiten
- Der alte Hannsen, Rennfahrer a.D.
- 1953
Sérénade de la rue
6.4
- 1953
Le tigre de Colombo
4.9
- Dr. Kuroma
- 1953
Rote Rosen, rote Lippen, roter Wein
5.3
- 1953
Die blaue Stunde
3.5
- Geheimrat Jordan
- 1953
Hab Sonne im Herzen
- Der Justizrat
- 1953
Tobias Knopp, Abenteuer eines Junggesellen
4.8
- Babbelmann (voice)
- 1953
Wenn abends die Heide träumt
6.7
- 1952
Oh, du lieber Fridolin
- Korbinian, Alices Vater
- 1952

Producer

Personal details

Alternative name
- Otto Gebuhr
Born
- May 29, 1877
- Kettwig, Essen, Rhine Province, Prussia [now Northrhine-Westphalia], Germany
Died
- March 14, 1954
- Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany(heart failure)
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German painter guitarist and character actor. On stage at the Berlin Lessingtheater from 1909, later with Max Reinhardt's company. In films from 1913, initially in supporting roles until mentored by leading actor Paul Wegener and cast as Friedrich II. (Frederick the Great) in Die Tänzerin Barberina (1920). Due to his uncanny resemblance to the famous monarch, Gebuehr went on to impersonate him in 16 films and numerous stage performances.

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