Paul Wegener
Born: 1874-12-11 in Arnoldsdorf, West Prussia, Germany [now Jarantowice, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]
Died: 1948-09-13
Known For: Acting
Biography
Paul Wegener was a German actor known for his pioneering roles in Expressionist films. He can also be considered a father of horror for his breakout role in The Student of Prague (1913). Wegener maintained a career throughout and after the Nazi era, starring in his last film in 1948.
Filmography
2025
- FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts as The Golem (archive footage)
1960
- The Golem as The Golem
1951
- Eyes of Love as Prof. Mochmann
1949
- Der große Mandarin as Mandarin
1945
- Kolberg as Loucadou
- The Molander Case as Holk, Generalstaatsanwalt
1944
- Tierarzt Dr. Vlimmen as Van der Kalk
1943
- Diesel as Direktor Buz
- Dr. Terror's House of Horrors as The Mad Inventor
- Wenn die Sonne wieder scheint as Bauer Termöhlen
1942
- The Great King as Gen. Czernitscheff
- Wedding in Barenhof as Leonhard von Krakow
1941
- My Life for Ireland as Sir George Beverley
- Das Mädchen von Fanö as Ulerk Ohm
1940
- Twilight as Förster Kuhnert
1939
- Das Recht auf Liebe as Herr von Salurn, Schloßgutsbesitzer in Tirol
- The Immortal Heart as Dr. Schedel
1938
- Stärker als die Liebe
- Secret Mission as Morrow
1937
- Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit ... (Director)
- Krach und Glück um Künnemann ... (Director)
1936
- Moscow Shanghai ... (Director)
- The Hour of Temptation ... (Director)
- August der Starke ... (Director)
1935
- The Man with the Paw as Wiegant, Präsident der Industrie-Bank
- Only a Comedian as Staatsminister von Creven
1934
- A Man Wants to Get to Germany as Ship Stoker
- Die Freundin eines großen Mannes ... (Director)
1933
- Inge and the Millions as Bankier Seemann
- Hans Westmar as Kuprikoff
1932
- The Living Dead as Mörder
- Marshal Forward as Marschall Blücher
- The Mystery of Johann Orth as Fürst Rostowsky Botschafter a.Wien
1930
- Fundvogel as Professor Reutlinger
1928
- A Daughter Of Destiny as Professor ten Brinken
- The Strange Case of Captain Ramper
1927
- The Weavers as Fabrikant Dreißiger
- Glanz und Elend der Kurtisanen as Vautrin
- Die Welt ohne Waffen as Dr. Dankmar Tollen
- Svengali as Svengali
- Arme kleine Sif
1926
- The Magician as Oliver Haddo
- Dagfin
- Der Mann aus dem Jenseits
1925
- Living Buddhas as Großlama
1924
- The Film in the Film as Self
1923
- S.O.S. Die Insel der Tränen as Jack
- Der Schatz der Gesine Jakobsen as Niels Nissen
1922
- Lucrezia Borgia as Micheletto
- Vanina as Gouverneur von Turin
- Herzog Ferrantes Ende as Herzog Ferrante
- The Loves of Pharaoh as Samlak
- Das Liebesnest
- Monna Vanna as Guido Gursino
1921
- Roswolsky's Mistress as Eugen Roswolsky
- The Lost Shadow
1920
- The Golem: How He Came Into the World as The Golem
- Sumurun as Der alte Scheich
- Figures of the Night as Thomas Bezug
- Steuermann Holk as Steuermann Holk
- Der Galeerensträfling
1919
1918
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin as Fahrender Spielmann (Traveling Minstrel)
1917
1916
- Rübezahl's Wedding as Ruebezahl
- The Yoghi as Yogi / Rasmus
1915
- The Golem as Golem
- Peter Schlemihl ... (Director)
1914
1913
- The Student of Prague as Balduin - A Student / Self