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
- The Man in Half Moon Street as Dr. Julian Karell
- Jealousy as Peter Urban
- Son of Lassie as Olav
- Love, Honor and Goodbye as Tony Linnard
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
- The Night Before the Divorce as Victor Roselle
- Night Monster as Agor Singh
1941
- Flying Blind as Eric Karolek
- Forced Landing as Col. Jan Golas
- Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day as Constanzo Labardi
- The Man Who Lost Himself as Peter Ransome
- The Night of January 16th as Bjorn Faulkner
1937
- Make-Up as Bux
1936
- Guilty Melody as Galloni
- The Marriage of Corbal as Varennes
1935
- Do You Remember? as (archive footage)
- Abdul the Damned as Kadar Pasha, Chief of Police
1934
- Madame Spy as Capt. Franck
- Love Time as Franz Schubert
- The Crime Doctor as Gary Patten
1933
- By Candlelight as Prince Alfred Von Rommer
- Storm at Daybreak as Capt. Geza Petery
- If I Were Free as Tono Casanove
- The Right To Romance as Dr. Helmuth Heppling
1932
- The Bitter Tea of General Yen as General Yen
- Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2) as Himself
- The Washington Masquerade as Henri Brenner
- But the Flesh Is Weak as Prince Paul
- Letty Lynton as Emile Renaul
1930
- The Sea Bat as Carl
1929
- The Single Standard as Packy Cannon
- Wild Orchids as Prince de Gace
1928
- The Cossacks as Prince Olenin Stieshneff
- Our Dancing Daughters as Norman
- The Blue Danube as Erich von Statzen
- The Cardboard Lover as Andre
- Dream of Love as Prince Mauritz
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh as Count Luigi Ravelli
- Loves of an Actress as Raoul Duval
1927
- Topsy and Eva as George Shelby
- Sorrell and Son as Christopher 'Kit' Sorrell
- Hotelratten as Fürst Ladrone
- Gauner im Frack as George Valeska
1926
- The Golden Butterfly as Andy McFarland
- The Sweet Girl as The Prince's Son
- Die drei Kuckucksuhren as Reginald Ellis
- Wrath of the Seas as Torpedooffizier Günther Adenried
1924
- Carl XII:s kurir 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