
Birthday:
04-24-1873
Deathday:
11-08-1933 (60 years)
Birthplace:
Minsk, Russian Empire [now Belarus]
Biography
Max Landa, born Max Landau, was a Russian-born Austrian silent film and stage actor. After working at various theatres in Austria and Germany for about twenty years he was discovered in Berlin as leading man by movie star Asta Nielsen.
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Little Angel
Act like Peter J. Schneider
event1914 star_border 5.9
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Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle from Chicago. Her unruly “play-acting” for the uncle is preceded by an earlier incident in the film that results in Jesta being evicted from her girl’s school. Wearing a long, woman’s skirt, she climbs up a ladder and onto a thatched roof. She reaches over the top of the wall to kiss her boyfriend, who appears from the other side. However, Jesta is caught by the headmistress, and her forced descent is precipitous. Pulled downward, she reveals a great deal of a black-stockinged leg. She looks distinctly sexual as she falls into the matrimonly arms of the law, whose duty is to enforce the rules of female decorum.
Stuart Webbs: The Man in the Cellar
Act like Lord Thomas Rawson
event1914
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Installment in the popular Stuart Webbs detective series.
The Suffragette
Act like Lord William Ascue
event1913 star_border 4.6
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Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.
The Double Murder in the Rue Morgue
Act like Dupin
event1916
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German adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”.
Die Japanerin
event1919
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A detective falls for a Japanese girl living with her uncle and cousin. When the girl's uncle is murdered, the detective must find out who killed him.
Anastasia, die falsche Zarentochter
Act like Graf Glybin
event1928
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Anastasia's supposed escape and possible survival was one of the most popular historical mysteries of the 20th century, provoking many books and films. At least ten women claimed to be her, offering varying stories as to how she had survived. Anna Anderson, was maybe the best known Anastasia impostor.
William Voss
Act like Frank Norbert
event1916
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William Voss is a 1915 silent film written and directed by Rudolf Meinert.
Little Angel's Wedding
event1916
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A sequel to 1914's Engelein, recounting the wedding of the titular protagonist. This film is considered lost.
Flight Around the World
event1925 star_border 5.3
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A spectacular action-adventure travelogue with stages in Genoa, Suez, Colombo, Singapore, Canton, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, New York and Brest.
The Secret of the American Docks
event1919 star_border 5.8
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James Mistoll, one of the owners of a factory, and working on a process to turn copper ore into radium, falls from a window on the fourth floor and dies; This was no accident, but a murder. A detective sends his assistant, Barnes, to investigate and soon the number of suspects from within the company multiplies.
Mitternacht
Act like Max, Detective
event1918
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Attorney General Trevor's second wife is found stabbed to death in his safe. Due to a ring with the initials DG, which is also found in the safe, the suspicion initially falls on Donald Gordon, the fiancé of Trevor's daughter.
Moriturus
Act like Detective Landa
event1920
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A doctor who cannot figure out what is wrong with his patient refers him to a detective, whom he hopes will be able to discern the cause of his mysterious illness.
Roswolsky's Mistress
event1921
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Mia Verhag loses her job as a chorus singer when she rejects the advances of the theatre director. While she is in the grips of despair, she encounters the millionaire Roswolsky, who takes her to his luxurious house and gives her a key to the garden gate, allowing her to visit the surrounding park whenever she pleases. This chance meeting sends rumours flying everywhere, and soon Mia appears on the front pages of all the newspapers as Roswolsky’s mistress. The city’s merchants and creditors compete to lend her money, and she lands the leading role in the theatre’s new production. There, she falls in love with Count Albich – but, believing the rumours, he avoids her. Mia follows him to Monte Carlo, while Roswolsky himself falls genuinely in love with her and plots to take Albich out of the running. A grand drama is set to unfold.
Das Feuer
Act like Graf von Warnberg
event1914
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Wanda marries a Count but falls in love with his son. When their relationship is discovered by the Dowager Countess, she locks them in the garden shed and sets fire to it.
Cinderella
Act like von Harten
event1916
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Growing up with mean foster parents, Lotte is employed as a kitchen maid with the von Harten family. After a dramatic interlude, including an accusation of theft, Mrs. von Harten reveals the truth about being her real mother, and the two are reunited.
Die Ewige Nacht
Act like Frank Norbert - Bildhauer
event1916
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Drama with poor blind Marta who falls in love with sculptor Paul who prefers the high life. As she tries to bring him to the straight and narrow, he lets her down again which results in her taking both their lives.
The White Roses
Act like Lord Kenley / Henry von Muiden
event1916
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The actress Thilda Wardier is courted by the wealthy Adam de Rochord, who presents her with a large bouquet of white roses every time they see each other. When Thilda is brought on board by a prestigious theatre in Ostend and wants to look suitably refined for the occasion, she borrows an expensive piece of family jewellery from Adam. However, a criminal gang staying in the same hotel as Adam and Thilda gets wind of the jewellery, and they cleverly manage to steal it and replace the real stones with fake ones. The precious loot now proceeds to pass through many different bouquets of white roses before ending up in the right hands again.
Das Gesetz der Mine
Act like Joe Deebs
event1915
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A black African avenges his father by murdering the inspector of a diamond mine.
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