Nils Asther
Born: 1897-01-16 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Died: 1981-10-13
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 - 13 October 1981) was a Danish-born Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid 1950s, known for his beautiful face and often called "the male Greta Garbo". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over 70 feature films, 16 done in the silent era. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nils Anton Alfhild Asther, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2022
- Prejudice and Pride: Swedish Film Queer as Self (archive footage)
1963
- Gudrun as Mr. Roscoe
1962
- Lady in White as Simon Ek
1961
- Svenska Floyd as Vincent Mitella
1960
- When Darkness Falls as Vicar Tord Ekstedt
1953
- That Man from Tangier as Henri
1948
- The Feathered Serpent as Paul Evans
1945
- Son of Lassie as Olav
- The Man in Half Moon Street as Dr. Julian Karell
- Love, Honor and Goodbye as Tony Linnard
- Jealousy as Peter Urban
1944
- Alaska as Thomas Leroux
- Bluebeard as Inspector Lefevre
- The Hour Before the Dawn as Kurt van der Breughel
1943
- Submarine Alert as Dr. Arthur Huneker
- Mystery Broadcast as Ricky Moreno
1942
- Sweater Girl as Prof. Henri Menard
- Night Monster as Agor Singh
- The Night Before the Divorce as Victor Roselle
1941
- Flying Blind as Eric Karolek
- Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day as Constanzo Labardi
- The Man Who Lost Himself as Peter Ransome
- The Night of January 16th as Bjorn Faulkner
- Forced Landing as Col. Jan Golas
1937
- Make-Up as Bux
1936
- The Marriage of Corbal as Varennes
- Guilty Melody as Galloni
1935
- Abdul the Damned as Kadar Pasha, Chief of Police
- Do You Remember? as (archive footage)
1934
- The Crime Doctor as Gary Patten
- The Love Captive as Dr. Alexis Collender
- Madame Spy as Capt. Franck
- Love Time as Franz Schubert
1933
- If I Were Free as Tono Casanove
- Storm at Daybreak as Capt. Geza Petery
- By Candlelight as Prince Alfred Von Rommer
- The Right To Romance as Dr. Helmuth Heppling
1932
- The Bitter Tea of General Yen as General Yen
- Letty Lynton as Emile Renaul
- But the Flesh Is Weak as Prince Paul
- The Washington Masquerade as Henri Brenner
- Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2) as Himself
1930
- The Sea Bat as Carl
1929
- The Single Standard as Packy Cannon
- Wild Orchids as Prince de Gace
1928
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh as Count Luigi Ravelli
- Loves of an Actress as Raoul Duval
- The Blue Danube as Erich von Statzen
- The Cossacks as Prince Olenin Stieshneff
- Our Dancing Daughters as Norman
- Dream of Love as Prince Mauritz
- The Cardboard Lover as Andre
1927
- Topsy and Eva as George Shelby
- Sorrell and Son as Christopher 'Kit' Sorrell
- Hotelratten as Fürst Ladrone
- Crooks in Tails as George Valeska
1926
- Wrath of the Seas as Torpedooffizier Günther Adenried
- The Sweet Girl as The Prince's Son
- Adventure Mad as Reginald Ellis
- The Golden Butterfly as Andy McFarland
1924
- Carl XII:s Courier as Stanislaus, Potockis nevö
1923
1922
- Love's Crucible as Apprentice
1920
- The Gyurkovics Boys as Bandi Gyurkovics
1918
- A Trip to Mars as Martian citizen
- Retten sejrer
1917
1916
- The Wings as Aspiring actor